J M Landels

In this issue Follow cover artist Akem's Selfie into myth and mystery with 'The Tales of Fanon and Gavroche' by feature author Ren e Sarojini Saklikar. Make connections over seemingly impossible gulfs with 'Downwelling' by D Marmara and 'M4R1NR' by Mike Carson, and discover what the nighttime holds in Mel Anastasiou's 'Moonlight Over Paradise Gardens' and Part 4 of 'Their Grandfather's Chair' by JM Landels. Fly away with a gorgeous mischief of three very different Magpies by Pattie Palmer-Baker, Angela Rebrec, and Elizabeth Cockle, and then come home to nest with Sierra Louie's elfin adventurer in 'If I Could Hide Away Anywhere'. Have a stiff drink with Melissa Ren at 'The Midnight Diyu', or pick a potion with Lena Ng in 'The Curse of the Chattering Skull', while you mingle uncomfortably with strangers in Mitchell Toews's 'The Light Pool' and William Kitcher's 'I Can't Tell You That'.

In This IssueJoin us as we raise a glass to the New Year and a new decade with Cheers by cover artist Melissa Mary Duncan. Ghosts rise from the depths of different pasts to haunt the pages of 'When Captain Picard Was My Dad' by feature author Finnian Burnett and 'The Haunted Ghost' by JJ Lee. Family both anchors and unmoors the varied casts of 'Moon Eater' by EC Dorgan, 'Field's Nocturne No. 10 in E Major' by Matt Lumbard, and 'The Golden Bull' by JM Landels. Time and space rattle and quake in 'Nobody Knows It but Me' by Franco Amati and 'Separate Worlds' by Chip Houser. And the shattering continues with new poetry from Aaron Poochigian, DS Maolalai, Purbasha Roy. But journeys finally find peace in the destination with 'Get Home Safe' by Sierra Louie and 'Stella Ryman and the Labyrinthian Puzzle' by Mel Anastasiou.

Tais Teng offers this issue's opening notes with The Pianist Who Serenaded the Mermaids with Chopin's Nocturne in E Minor. The wonders continue with short fiction from Dan MacIsaac, Zandra Renwick, Kelsey Hutton, Sarina Bosco, David Perlmutter, Melissa Nelson, Leslie Wibberley, and Robin Malcolm. There's poetry from the Magpie winners and a graphic short finale from Matthew Nielsen. JM Landels brings us Toinette's latest adventures, and Mel Anastasiou introduces us to an all-new mystery, Pretty Lies.

In this issue: A chilly cover from Britt-Lise Newstead envelopes JJ Lee's Christmas ghost story, 'Desdemone', while Misha Handman keeps us warm through the dark night. AJ Odasso constructs a Frankenstein tale for the new world; Spencer Stevens returns in the Seven Swans Mysteries, and Allaigna's Song continues; plus fiction from Anat Rabkin, Soramimi Hanarajimi, and Susan Pieters, along with the winners of the 2017 Hummingbird Prize for Flash Fiction