F(r)iction #3
Ah, intrepid adventurer! If it’s strangeness you seek, you’ve stumbled upon the right issue. We’re home to the weirdest of genre and literary fiction from this and other worlds, with a healthy smattering of poetry, nonfiction, and comics for good measure. It’s taken all our wits and cunning to convince the world to take a chance on this unlikely amalgamation, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. There are no scrappier explorers than us.
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Dizzying and dreamy, our third issue writhes with inky whims and dangers: twisting tales, boundaries crossed out and rewritten, words with minds of their own. Sci-fi and familial drama collide in Scott O’Connor’s “Interstellar Space,” as a movie set designer tries to reconnect with a sister institutionalized for hearing voices and signals. In Helen Phillips’ flash fiction “In the World Where Everyone Must Pick How S/he Dies,” a mother hunts for an immortality loophole among warehouse shelves of pick-your-own-demise. For a thriller fairy tale comic, look no further than Emily Carroll’s “His Face All Red,” in which a man is haunted by a creature wearing his perfect brother’s face. And where would we be without our Community Feature with the Veteran’s Writing Project or our Debut Author Feature spotlighting Ryan Gattis and his heartbreaking, meticulous novel All Involved?
So, take up your flashlight, your lantern, your torch—it’s time to stay lost.
- Editor’s Note, words by Dani Hedlund, art by Brian Demers
- Interstellar Space, words by Scott O'Connor, art by Alyssa Menold
- In the world where everyone must pick how s/he dies, words by Helen Phillips, art by Dara Cochran
- Steaks from the Trainer’s Hand, words by J. M. J. Brewer, art by Daniel Reneau
- Three Poems, words by Jill Goldberg, art by Naiche Washburn
- Imp, words by Ilana Masad, art by Alyssa Menold
- Champagne Like Water, Water Like Champagne, words by Eileen Merriman, art by Kelsi Jo Silva
- Opossum Day, words by Ralph Pennel, art by Brian Demers
- In the Shadow of the Flames: A Feature with Ryan Gattis, words by Ryan Gattis, art by Ryan Gajda
- Primum non nocere, words by A. W. Hall, art by Dana Martin
- The Great Brier Rose, words by Christine K Dillard, art by Carly Lyn Heath
- The Flood, words by Barbara Ellen Sorenson, art by Carly Lyn Heath
- His Face All Red, words and art by Emily Carroll
- The Rules of the Game, words by Marcus Creaghan, art by Carly Lyn Heath
- The Three Things She Was Most Afraid Of—Until She Wasn’t, words by Irene Vasquez, art by Dara Cochran
- The Courtesy and Kindness of Zombies, words by Brian Lott, art by Joshua Mowgli
- Works from the Veterans Writing Project, words by David Bublitz, Sylvia Bowersox, Aaron Graham, Caroline Bock, art by Dara Cochran
- The Shortest Opus, words by Erik D'Souza, art by Carly Lyn Heath
- A Force, The God, That Monster, words by A. Joachim Glage, art by Carly Lyn Heath
| Publication Date | December 15, 2015 |
| Page Count | 128 |
| Language | English |
| Cover | Full-colour with a glossy protective finish |
| Interior | Full-color illustrations throughout, with glued binding |
| Paper Stock | 128gsm matte paper |
| ISSN/ISBN | 9770238025885 03 |
| Dimensions | 10" x 7" x .25" / 25cm x 18cm x .64cm |
| Weight | 0.65lbs / 296g |
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