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Issue 3 is crammed full of stories and art, with poems, Flash fiction and an entertaining report to leaven the mix. Whether we're battling a mechanical daemon in "A Song, a Prayer, an Empty Space" or experiencing jealousy towards unusual rivals in "Soon You Will Be Gone and Possibly Eaten", we're following the theme of Mechanical Flight into strange and unexpected places. Flight, the dream of humanity for years without number, has come a long way since the Wright brothers flew almost the length of a Boeing 747 using a lawnmower engine. The US Space Shuttle takes off like a rocket and lands like a plane. An ice runway has been built in Antarctica to facilitate flights from Hobart. Solar-powered aircraft grace our skies. And GUD Issue Three seeks to fly to even stranger places—why not take your seat, buckle yourself in, and enjoy the ride? Comprising: Stories A Song, a Prayer, an Empty Space by Darja Malcolm-Clarke; The Dragon's Thorn, Sword of Kings (& Fred) by Idan Cohen; Attack of the Mennonite Paratroopers by Ivan Dorin; Facts of Bone by Tina Connolly; a father a son a disaffection by S A Tranter; Hunt of the I-Don't-Knows by Matthew Chad Weinman; When All Is Forgiven by Kelley A Swan; Chica, Let Me Tell You a Story by Alex Dally MacFarlane; Think Fast by Michael Greenhut; Measurements by Chad Brian Henry; Forgetting by Nicole Kornher-Stace; Night Bird Soaring by T. L. Morganfield; The Train by Jason D. Wittman; Flower as Big as the Sky by Matt Dennison; Benkelstein and the Time Warp by Evil Editor; The Great Big Nothing by Frank Haberle; Splitting the Atom by Tania Hershman; Soon You Will Be Gone and Possibly Eaten by Nick Antosca; Persian on the Forty-Second Floor by Keesa Renee DuPre. Poetry Poetry's Yellow Warbler by Beverly A. Jackson; Lacerta - Named by Johannes Hevelius by J M McDermott; Display by Beth Langford; Seductive by Gabrielle S. Faust; American History by Jeanpaul Ferro; How to Fetch Firewood by Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau; Falling by Traci Brimhall; Conquered by Sylvia Eastman; In Every War by Jim Pascual Agustin; a night without dreams by Rohith Sundararaman; Queen of Winter by Jennifer Crow. Report Counting Nuns by Christian A. Dumais. Art Steam Bat by Zak Jarvis (cover); Dragon and Gear by Shweta Narayan; Dangerous Innocence by Joe Roger; Monster Flights by Jessica Nicole Hill; Clockwork Wings by Kiriko Moth; Patterson No. 2 by Jessica C Hoard; Mustang by Jon Radlett; Endless Journey by Bartlomiej Jurkowski; Midnight Sun by C. Nelson; The Flying Cat by heather lam; Dreamcatcher by Bartlomiej Jurkowski.
Authors
An 10-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jéanpaul Ferro’s work has appeared on National Public Radio, Contemporary American Voices, Columbia Review, Emerson Review, Connecticut Review, Portland Monthly, Arts & Understanding Magazine, The Providence Journal, Saltsburg Review, Hawaii Review, and others. He is the author of All The Good Promises (Plowman Press, 1994), Becoming X (BlazeVox Books, 2008), You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers (Thumbscrew Press, 2009), Hemispheres (Maverick Duck Press, 2009) Essendo Morti – Being Dead (Goldfish Press, 2009), nominated for the 2010 Griffin Prize in Poetry; and Jazz (Honest Publishing, 2011), nominated for both the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and the 2012 Griffin Prize in Poetry. He was born and raised in Scituate, Rhode Island. THE DEVIL AND THE BLACKSMITH: https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Blacksmi... THE DEVIL AND THE BLACKSMITH, Official Trailer: https://youtu.be/MEGwnZ_oD3o?si=fgC1i...
Nicole Kornher-Stace lives in New Paltz, NY, with her family. Her two most recent books are the adult SF cyberpunk dystopian thriller FIREBREAK (Simon & Schuster/Gallery/Saga, 2021) and her middle-grade debut JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET (Tachyon, 2021). Her other books include the Andre Norton Award finalist ARCHIVIST WASP (Small Beer Press/Big Mouth House, 2015) and its sequel LATCHKEY (Mythic Delirium, 2018), which are about a far-future postapocalyptic ghosthunter, the ghost of a near-future supersoldier, and their adventures in the underworld. You can find her on Twitter @wirewalking, where she is probably semicoherently yelling about board games, video games, hiking, aromantic representation, good books she's read recently, or her cat. For tons of book extras, deleted scenes, and subscriber exclusives, check out her Patreon, which is single-tier pay-what-you-want for all access to everything.
His first novel was plucked from a slush pile and went on to be #6 on Amazon.com's Year's Best SF/F of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize, and on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for Debuts. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other places. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an MFA in Popular Fiction from the Stonecoast program of the University of Southern Maine. By night, he wanders a maze of bookshelves and empty coffee cups, and by day he wanders the streets of San Antonio, where he lives and works. He tries to write in between.
