Part of Series
Issue 4 begins with the end of the world and moves on from there. From the unromantically magical view of Ragnarøk in the lead story "Unbound" to the curious history of squid in "A Man of Kiri Maru", this issue is steeped in mythos, the old familiar tales and some new ones, mixing cosmologies from around the world—and from other worlds as well. But the focus, be it of prose, poetry, or art, is always on the human—on the clashes between imagination and reality, on choices and redemption, on what the Other can tell us about ourselves. Stories Unbound by Brittany Reid Warren; Q&A by Nik Houser; Flip Lady (1986) by Ladee Hubbard; The Dancing Aliens by Mithran Somasundrum; Daya and Dharma by Shweta Narayan; Long Winter by Night by D. Elizabeth Wasden; Unfinished Stories by J(ae)D Brames; The Thirst by Kerry Hudson; Vore; or, Levity in Dungeons by Adrian Versteegh; How Ramona Saved the Ducks by Allan Richard Shapiro; Forests of the Night by Abigail Hilton; Stiletto by Ian McHugh; How's Your Sister? by Anne Goodwin; A Man of Kiri Maru by Laura L. Sullivan; Maya's World by T. F. Davenport. Poetry Unlike Red Tape, the Yellow by Lida Broadhurst; Ghosts of Sweaty Air by Jim Pascual Agustin; Teaching Assistant by Ward Crockett; Jesus Fucks an Atheist and Calls It Love by Lisa Feinstein; To a Skylark by Rose Lemberg; Quack by Brian Beatty; this infants spine by Zac Carter; Flotsam, 1968 - Extant by Matthew Keuter; Note to J. by Matthew Keuter. Report What Kafka Knew by Christy Rodgers. Art The Strangers Are Tuning by Jesse Lindsay (cover); Mortality by Adam Ramirez; Writing the Harvest by Lisa A. Grabenstetter; Hidden by Rossana Reginato; Shaula by Tree DeAngelis; The Sheep by Ursula Vernon; The Catoblepas by Lisa A. Grabenstetter; Werewolf by eric orchard; Idolomantis diabolica by Jesse Lindsay; Bird Liquor and the Boastful Ghost by Joseph Larkin.
Authors
R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the US. R.B.'s Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) is a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy awards, as well as an Otherwise Award honoree. R.B.'s poetry memoir Everything Thaws will be published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, We Are Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and many other venues. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at their websites rblemberg.net and birdverse.net.
Mithran Somasundrum was born in Colombo, grew up in London and currently lives in Bangkok, where he works in an electrochemistry lab. His short stories have been published in The Sun, Inkwell, Natural Bridge, The Minnesota Review, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and The Best Asian Short Stories 2017, among others. One of his stories was shortlisted for the Bridport 2021 Short Story Prize. His next novel, "Bangkok Phantoms" is forthcoming from Joffe Books.
SHORT STORY E-BOOK FREE FOR NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS https://bit.ly/daughtershorts Anne Goodwin’s drive to understand what makes people tick led to a career in clinical psychology. That same curiosity now powers her fiction. Anne writes about the darkness that haunts her and is wary of artificial light. She makes stuff up to tell the truth about adversity, creating characters to care about and stories to make you think. She explores identity, mental health and social justice with compassion, humour and hope. A prize-winning short-story writer, she has published three novels and a short story collection with small independent press, Inspired Quill. Her debut novel, Sugar and Snails, was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Away from her desk, Anne guides book-loving walkers through the Derbyshire landscape that inspired Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Subscribers to her newsletter can download a free e-book of award-winning short stories. Website: annegoodwin.weebly.com
Abigail Hilton writes fantasy books, including The Cowry Catchers/ Refugees saga, The Prophet of Panamindorah, Hunters Unlucky, and the Eve and Malachi Series. She also publishes under A. H. Lee, including The Incubus Series and The Knight and the Necromancer.
I've published five poetry collections: Magpies and Crows (Ravenna Press, 2021), Borrowed Trouble, Dust and Stars: Miniatures (Cholla Needles Press, 2019 and 2018), Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Coyotes I Couldn't See (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Hobo Radio, a spoken-word album of my poems featuring original music by Charlie Parr, was released by Corrector Records in early 2021. My jokes, poems, reviews and short stories have appeared in numerous print and digital publications, including Alba, The American Journal of Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Bark, Black Bough Poetry (Wales), Conduit, Cowboy Jamboree, CutBank, Daily Drunk Magazine, Dark Mountain (England), 8 Poems, elimae, The Evergreen Review, Floyd County Moonshine, Forklift Ohio, The Freshwater Review, Glasgow Review of Books (Scotland), Gulf Coast, Hobart, Hoosier Noir, Hoot, Hummingbird, Kentucky Review, McSweeney's (online and print), Midwestern Gothic, The Missouri Review, The Moth (Ireland), museum of americana, Noir Nation, NOON, Not Deer Magazine, Phoebe, Poetry City USA, Prose Poem: An International Journal, Publishers Weekly, Quail Bell, The Quarterly, Rain Taxi, Rattle, The Raw Art Review, Sequestrum, Seventeen, Shotgun Honey, The Southern Review, Switchblade, Sycamore Review and Two Hawks Quarterly, among others. My writing has also been featured in public art projects and on public radio. I live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
