This month’s cover is by North Carolina artist Vicki be Wicked. Starting oil painting at a young age, she has been working with digital art for a decade. A self-described lover of pop-surrealism and dark art, her work is a perfect choice for the latest issue.
Read MoreInterview with Cover Artist Vicki Be Wicked
They say that the manifestation of one’s magic is determined by the crucial events and influences—internal and external—surrounding one’s special time which happened during puberty. Signs and markers can help point out specifically when one’s special time will manifest; but the Ace of Knives was alone.
Read MoreThe Ace of Knives
The thing about souls is that they don’t wander off. Not unless a body is so broken-down that there are too many cracks to hold even breath inside. The girl isn’t that far gone. She’s still strong, still has grit, and still believes in a future.
Read MoreGray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts
Enjoy our audio presentation of "Mr. Death" by Alix E. Harrow. Narrated by Chris Lester. Produced by KT Bryski.
Read MoreEpisode #74: Mr. Death
Stories are good; stories are dangerous. We know this, if from nothing else, then from stories themselves. Stories save Scheherazade; stories drive Don Quixote mad. How do we tell the difference?
Read MoreTrapped In Stories
I’ve ferried two hundred and twenty-one souls across the river of death, and I can already tell my two-hundred-and-twenty-second is going to be a real shitkicker. I know by the lightness of the manila folder in my hand, the preemptive pity in the courier’s face as she gives it to me. I read the typewritten card paper-clipped to the front with my stomach tensed, braced for the sucker punch.
Read MoreMr. Death
We fled to the stars before Earth let out its last breath and drifted between galaxies for four hundred years, listening to the heartbeats of our ships. Fiction would have you think that such an enterprise would turn the species feral, but the truth is kinder. Humanity lost its fear of itself, shed its hate like a mouthful of rust. When you have nothing but each other, you learn to love your neighbour. You do that or you die.
Read MoreLove, That Hungry Thing
Andrea Johnson interviews P H Lee, the author of "Your Own Undoing."
Read MoreInterview with Author P H Lee
It hurts that you don’t recognize me, your own familiar that you made from a part of your own soul, but there are more important things for us to deal with right now. I push through the hurt and speak to you, saying, “This is not a story you are reading. This is actually happening, and it’s actually happening to you.”
Read MoreYour Own Undoing