We are happy to bring you a new issue for your Spring reading.
In this issue, we are pleased to bring back one of our favourite artists, Winnipeg’s Robert Pasternak. We reconnected at last summer’s PemmiCon in Winnipeg and had a look through his portfolio. Robert is a brilliant and imaginative creator, as you will see from Cat McDonald’s interview.
Our poetry selections feature several poets we’ve published before: Swati Chavda, Colleen Anderson, Shilpa Kamat, and Kim Whysall-Hammond.
Fiction selections will appeal to lovers of multiple sub-genres of SFF. Winnipeg’s Cale Platt, this issue’s featured writer, bring us “The Other Half”, a horror story that reaches its long fingers from the forgotten basement of a burnt-out church to the woods beyond the lights of town, running in torn socks. One of our most intriguing titles is Jon Lasser’s “John Barleycorn Must Die, And Your Little Dog, Toto, Too”. A couple seeks hope on a generation ship run dangerously off-course. Calgary writer Jeb Gaudet was previously published in On Spec in 1990! We look forward to more stories like his “Cleaning House”. After you read it, you’ll never complain about housework again! Making your bed and fighting your demons are sometimes the same thing.
A tiny, porcelain, coffin doll and a nineteenth-century ballad have an otherworldly connection in B.C.’s K.T. Wagner’s “Frozen Charlotte”. With a title like “Ogres in the Mist”, there had better be ogres, and Brian Milton doesn’t disappoint. In his tale we learn a lesson. You could do what your leader says and die in the attempt. Or maybe just stop and admire the beauty of the world instead. Fans of ‘hard’ SF will enjoy Heather Fraser’s “Routine Resupply”. Like your predecessors, you were expected to die on this assignment. But you’re still here. Ottawa’s Karl El-Koura, author of “Salvation of the Innocents” tells us that he’s been submitting work to us for more than twenty-five years. His touching story really reached our editorial hearts. In a future where humans are plagued by infertility, time travel provides a solution to maintaining the human population…but comes with its own unique dangers and catastrophic risks.
We love to see stories by non-Canadians, to provide a different flavour, and Malaysia’s Shih-Li Kow brings us “In Exchange”, a story about the horrors of war. Andrew Rucker Jones’ story “Better Luck Next Time” follows a young soul as he attempts to halt his slide down the reincarnation ladder before he falls off.
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