New Issue 2020.52

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Issue 2020.52

Flash fiction

• ‘The Lime Monster’, Shelly Jones (art by Martin Hanford)

Short stories

• ‘Pleiades for a New Generation’, Kathryn Allan (art by Grace P. Fong)
• ‘The Third Angel Poured’, Julie Reeser (art by Katharine A. Viola)
• ‘La ruta de la sal’, Malena Salazar Maciá (art by Jason Baltazar)
• ‘The Salt in Her Kiss’, Malena Salazar Maciá (translated by Toshiya Kamei) (art by Jason Baltazar)
• ‘The Wasteland Review’, Aurelia Gonzalez (art by Cécile Matthey)

Poetry

• ‘Spare the Fire, Spoil the Brute’, Gerri Leen (art by Rachel Linn)
• ‘Lost’, Adele Gardner (art by Toeken)
• ‘Drown Me’, Hester J. Rook (art by Carmen Moran)
• ‘Eden’, Stephen Whitehead (art by Dr. T. Eratopo)
• ‘Lucky Fact’, Stefani Cox (art by Dr. T. Eratopo)

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Accessing the Future TOC

At last, we can share with you the authors and titles of stories that will appear in the Accessing the Future anthology, exploring disability through speculative fiction, edited by Kathryn Allan and Djibril al-Ayad (with guest commentary from JoSelle Vanderhooft and Derek Newman-Stille). Also, go over to the Accessing the Future press page and check out the  g o r g e o u s  cover art by Robin E. Kaplan, aka the Gorgonist!

• Nicolette Barischoff “Pirate Songs”
• Sarah Pinsker “Pay Attention”
• Margaret Killjoy “Invisible People”
• Joyce Chng “The Lessons of the Moon”
• Samantha Rich “Screens”
• Sara Patterson “A Sense All its Own”
• Kate O'Connor “Better to Have Loved”
• Toby MacNutt “Morphic Resonance”
• Louise Hughes “Losing Touch”
• Jack Hollis Marr “into the waters i rode down”
• Petra Kuppers “Playa Song”
• A.C. Buchanan “Puppetry”
• A.F. Sanchez “Lyric”
• Rachael K. Jones “Courting the Silent Sun”
• David Jón Fuller “In Open Air”

In addition to these stories, we will include eight pieces of freestanding artwork, illustrations that tell stories of their own on the theme of the anthology. Our wonderful artists are:

• Fabian Alvarado
• L.E. Badillo
• Jane Baker
• Comebab
• Pandalion Death
• Rachel Keslensky
• Vincent Konrad
• Tostoini