Pulp Literature Winter 2019 eBook

Under the exquisite coverFrost and Snow byMelissa Mary Duncan …

• Our featured author, the esteemedEvelyn Lau, offers three poems riddled with grief and stolen moments.
• Spencer Stevens takes a break from the front lines in the finalSeven Swans instalment, ‘The Mystery of the Forgotten Soldier’, byMel Anastasiou.
• Echo wanes as Narcissus waxes inJoelle Kidd’s modern retelling, ‘Echo/Narcissus’; while a Pythia of Apollo unweaves 25 years’ worth of lies in ‘The Golden Feather’ byJenny Blackford.
• Space isn’t exactly lawless, but everyone bends the rules inMargot Spronk’s ‘Rules of Salvage’; and on the other end of the SF spectrum,Graham Darling’s ‘A Pleasant Walk, A Pleasant Talk’ neatly turns aLewis Carroll poem on its head.
• A seemingly useless power feeds a young woman’s resentment inEmily Lonie’s ‘A Seed in Every Womb’, andMichael Bracken’s ‘The Fishmonger’s Wife’ explores the dangers of dry land for mermen.
• Search for the perfect stone in ‘Stonecold’ fromLeslie Wibberly, the 2018 Creative Ink Festival’s flash fiction contest winner.
• Explore new mythologies inNicholas Christian’s ‘The Angler’, winner of the 2018 Hummingbird Prize for Flash Fiction; and the runner-up byRobert Runté, ‘Day Three’, examines the little things we miss the most.
• Allaigna falls in with a new crowd in the latest installment ofAriabyJM Landels, and a carnival fortune-teller shares valuable tricks of the trade in ‘Madame Sylvie’s Three Rules for How to Speak for the Dead’ bySusan Pieters.
• And finally, find out what very old aristocrats do when they let get unlaced inKris Sayer’s sequential short ‘Under Pale Flesh’