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  • Winter 2021
    • “At the Playground” by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
    • “Beneath the Palace Dictionary the Last Evil Mars Moth Sleeps” by Mari Ness
    • “Her House There by the Mountain” by Kerry C. Byrne
    • “In the Garden of My Ancestors’ Statues” by Marissa Lingen
    • “Night Beasts” by Jennifer Crow
    • “Returning the Lyre” by Mary E. Lowd
    • “Shadow Dance/Island” by Kim Whysall-Hammond
    • “The Love Song of M. Religiosa” by Nibedita Sen
    • “The Mermaid’s Tail” by Jennifer Shelby
    • “Truth, Death, and the Golem Between” by Erin K. Wagner
    • “What We Are Remembered For” by Paul Crenshaw
    • A Word from the Editor (Winter 2021)
    • Horoscopes (Winter 2021)
  • Archives
    • #581 (no title)
    • #582 (no title)
    • “A Gift of Dead Flesh” by Andrew Kaye
    • “Breaking Bread on Sugar Loaf” by David Murphy
    • “For C.” by Valentina Cano
    • “Hibrernal” by Megan Arkenberg
    • “Read Shift” by Sharon D. King
    • “Redwing” by Maigen Turner
    • “Spinning the Thread” by Gregory Norman Bossert
    • “The Glamour” by Eric Schaller
    • “Victoria’s One-Way Ticket” by Emily B. Cataneo
    • Autumn 2012
      • “Chuck the Penguin” by G.W. Thomas
      • “Dead Merchandise” by Ferrett Steinmetz
      • “Fall from Grace” by David Tallerman
      • “Hostile Universe” by K. Eason
      • “I Am a Being Under Enchantment” by Patricia Russo
      • “In Time, the Seawater Swells in His Gut” by Lisa Grove
      • “Live Feed” by K.M. Praschak
      • “No Woman, No Plaything” by Lisa Shapter
      • “Noctis Equi” by Megan Arkenberg
      • “Rule 88” by Andrew Kaye
      • “Someone Is Eating America’s Chess Masters” by Mary A. Turzillo
      • “The Unwinding House” by Jared Millet
      • “To serve man” by Megan Boatright
      • “A Time Before” by Vincent Pendergast
      • Horoscopes (Autumn 2012)
    • Autumn 2013
      • “Camouflage” by Eden Robins
      • “Heart-Song” Danielle Davis
      • “Implants” by Noel Sloboda
      • “Lightning Strikes” by Lindsey Duncan
      • “Lone White Seagull” by Geoffrey W. Cole
      • “Mister Bob” by Dan Campbell
      • “Musings of a Tower Jockey” by Bruce Golden
      • “Nice” by Jamie Mason
      • “Picking Up Aliens: A Guide” by John Grey
      • “Propelled by Beauty” by dan smith
      • Horoscopes (Autumn 2013)
    • Autumn 2014
    • Autumn 2015
      • “Alviss the Dwarf” by David A. Hewitt
      • “Dance of the Splintered Hands” by Henry Szabranski
      • “Obsidian” by Beth Cato
      • “Rites of Passage” by Julia August
      • “The Unicorn” by Amanda C. Davis
      • “There Are Rules” by William Stiteler
      • “To Claim a Piece of Sky” by Crystal Lynn Hilbert
      • “Your Future and Mine” by John Grey
      • Horoscopes (Autumn 2015)
      • Kaleidotrope 2015
    • Autumn 2016
      • “A Pearl for Amelie” by Mary E. Lowd
      • “A Spell a Day” by Alex Harper
      • “Before” by Mack W. Mani
      • “Count Eszterházy’s Harmonium” by Joe Pitkin
      • “Dangerous Stuff” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
      • “In the City of Kites and Crows” by Megan Arkenberg
      • “Reflection Espied in the Glass Façade of 20 Fenchurch Street” by Matt Thompson
      • “The Long Game” by Rachael Acks
      • Kaleidotrope 2016
    • Autumn 2017
      • “Beneath This Blood-Red Sun They Come” by Lauren McBride
      • “Sinshine” by TJ Berry
      • “Something on Your Mind?” by Gareth D. Jones et al
      • “Techno Babel” by Daniel Lowd and Mary E. Lowd
      • “The Goddess of the Sea-facing World” by Neile Graham
      • “The Manitor” by Jon Wallace
      • “The Ouroboros Bakery” by Octavia Cade
      • “The Ripper’s Vacation on Magellan VII” by John Grey
      • A Word from the Editor (October 2017)
      • Horoscopes (Autumn 2017)
    • Autumn 2018
      • “A Starship Shot Down Like the Sun” by Andrea Tang
      • “After” by Sandi Leibowitz
      • “Basilisk and Sons” by Timothy Mudie
      • “Boss” by Kurt Hunt
      • “Come, Little Baby” by Lori A. Claxton
      • “In Dragonfly Lake” by Kate Heartfield
      • “One and Two” by Emma Osborne
      • “Players” by Curtis C. Chen
      • “The Coming of the Jirt” by David Barber
    • Autumn 2020
      • “Comrades, Beloved” by Heather Clitheroe
      • “Down to Niflhel Deep” by Maria Haskins
      • “Drug Awareness Day” by David Barber
      • “Human Abstracts” by B. Pladek
      • “Moonrise” by Lora Gray
      • “News from Space Station Daius-Beta: Update on ‘The Children'” by Bruce McAllister
      • “No Duty Farther Than Her Own Heartbeat” by Aimee Ogden
      • “Portrait of a Pinup Boy at the End of the World” by Andrea Tang
      • “The Hungry Void” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
      • “The Red Flower” by April Grant
      • “Theory to Bring You Home” by Phoenix Alexander
      • “when you get your daughter back” by Maya Chhabra
    • Horoscopes (Autumn 2014)
    • Kaleidotrope 2017
    • Kaleidotrope 2018
    • Kaleidotrope 2019
    • Kaleidotrope 2020
    • Spring 2012
      • “Chuck the Penguin” by G.W. Thomas
      • “Circumscribed with Wires” by Frank Ard
      • “Commuter Train” by Brady Golden
      • “Dead on the Doorstep” by Peter Cooper
      • “In Exchange for Sorrow” by Damien Walters Grintalis
      • “In the Library of Rock” by Geoffrey A. Landis
      • “Those Who Came Before” by Nicholas J. Carter
      • “Traveler” by Colin Heintze
      • “Virgins” by Richard Lung
      • “Voices” by Lindsey Duncan
      • “Weekend at Byron’s” by Justin Teerlinck
      • Horoscopes (Spring 2012)
    • Spring 2013
      • “Displacement” by Matthew King
      • “Journey to the Highlands of Papua: XII. The Upper Tagarree and the King of the Jews” by Regan Wolfrom
      • “Oneiroliths” by F.J. Bergmann
      • “Rocky Mountain Ghosts” by Don Norum
      • “Scarlet Fever” by M. Bennardo
      • “Ten Thousand Lives” by Bruce Holland Rogers
      • “The Mud Girl” by Michael John Grist
      • “The Witch’s Confession” by Jordan Taylor
      • “The Worst Part” by Hannah Lackoff
      • Ask Doctor Bernofsky: An Advice Column (Spring 2013)
      • Horoscopes (Spring 2013)
    • Spring 2014
      • “Braeberry Street” by Erin Stocks Rubin
      • “Fuseli in Peru” by Mark A. McCutcheon
      • “Moon Stone, Please Touch” by Mary Alexandra Agner
      • “On the Appetite of a God” by Andy Dudak
      • “Rhyme in Seven Parts” by Berrien C. Henderson
      • “Shadowboxing” by Andrew Miller
      • “Sun-Touched” by LaShawn M. Wanak
      • “Tree, Fire, World” by Desirina Boskovich
    • Spring 2015
      • “Closing time, Gilgamesh among the drunks” by David Coleman
      • “Echoes of Life” by Jetse de Vries
      • “Le Rêve” by Sandi Leibowitz
      • “Monkey King, Faerie Queen” by Zen Cho
      • “Squished Things” by Beth Cato
      • “Summer Palace” by F.J. Bergmann
      • “The Face of Atrocity” by Charles Ebert
      • “The Maquette” by Nicole M. Taylor
      • “The Spine of Worlds” by Eric Rosenfield
      • “The White-Tailed Morning” by JD DeHart
      • Horoscopes (Spring 2015)
    • Spring 2016
      • “Daughter” by Lynette Mejía
      • “Ecdysis” by Kurt Hunt
      • “Lost Things” by Dana Beehr
      • “Max in Wolf-Suit” by Sandi Leibowitz
      • “Second Chance” by Darrell Lindsey
      • “The Kid, the Witch, and the Tank-Grown Girl” by Neil Carstairs
      • “Where There’s Magic” by Michelle Ann King
    • Spring 2017
      • “A Scent of Happiness” by Iain Ishbel
      • “And We Spake of Them Words Which Make You Goddess” by A.J. Fitzwater
      • “Joining the Degreasers” by Bo Balder
      • “Leg” by Shaenon K. Garrity
      • “Prayers to Broken Stone” by Cat Sparks
    • Spring 2018
      • “Aubade: Taking Off” by T.D. Walker
      • “Caleb” by Karin Terebessy
      • “Gog and Magog” by Charlotte Ashley
      • “In the Belly of the Wolf” by Gwendolyn Kiste
      • “Intoxicating Silence” by Jennifer Crow
      • “Shadow Company” by Mary Alexandra Agner
      • “The Guitar Hero” by Maria Haskins
      • “Them!” by WC Roberts
    • Spring 2019
      • “Between” by John Grey
      • “Consequences of a Stolen Star” by Beth Cato
      • “Could’ve Been a Gerbil” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
      • “Empty Cages” by David Gallay
      • “It Was Tense” by Lindsey Duncan
      • “Iya-Iya” by Jonathan Edelstein
      • “Murk Girl, Bright Girl” by Bo Balder
      • “Nightmare II” by Ada Hoffmann
      • “On Ohab’s Land” by Henry Szabranski
      • “Once Upon an Armageddon” by Rachel Rodman
      • “Peace Reigns” by Mack W. Mani
      • “The Asking Price” by Christie Yant
    • Spring 2020
      • “A Life on Made Up Things” by Soren James
      • “Diplomatic Incident” David C. Kopaska-Merkel
      • “Himeya” by M. Raoulee
      • “Joyride” by Amman Sabet
      • “Last Call: Acheron” by Christine Lucas
      • “Oh, How She Danced” by Sandra Odell
      • “PQRST” by Suzanne Palmer
      • “Tell Me a Story” by J.J. Roth
      • “The Cartographer” by Vincent Pendergast
      • “The Moon Room” by Maria Romasco Moore
      • “We All Fall Down” by Jessica Minyard
      • “we are all energy” by M. Darusha Wehm
      • A Word from the Editor (Spring 2020)
    • Summer 2012
      • “A Dancer for Aonou” by Eliza Hirsch
      • “A Hero’s First Task” by Alexandra Seidel
      • “Chasing Horizons” by Eric Landreneau
      • “Children of the Earth” by Ben Godby
      • “Chuck the Penguin” by G.W. Thomas
      • “Extended Periods of Absence” by James Bloomer
      • “Junk” by R.D. Kimball
      • “Last Bag” by Peter J. Grieco
      • “Plurality” by Samuel Mae
      • “Sent” by Joshua Pabon
      • “Sloth” by Don Jolly
      • “The Mechanic” by Eliza Victoria
      • “The Sleeping Beauty Symphony” by Django Mathijsen
      • ”Knit Your Sleep from the Night’s Black Yarn” by Lisa Grove
      • Horoscopes (Summer 2012)
    • Summer 2013
      • “Flock” by Caspian Gray
      • “in the dirt on the floor beneath the fuse box” by Michael Estabrook
      • “Jack Magic” by Erica Hildebrand
      • “Leaving Papa” by Darrell Lindsey
      • “Other Circus” by John Grey
      • “Rock Song” by Aliya Whiteley
      • “The Star of Jingdezhen” by Robert Bagnall
      • “Tintookie” by Thoraiya Dyer
      • Ask Doctor Bernofsky: An Advice Column (Summer 2013)
      • Horoscopes (Summer 2013)
    • Summer 2014
      • “A Language of Worlds” by Preston Grassmann
      • “Aqua Regia” by Karen Munro
      • “Custom Reproductions TM” by Angelle Haney Gullett
      • “Shag” by Folly Blaine
      • “Three Kingdoms” by Matthew Sanborn Smith
      • “To the Heart of the City” by Desmond Warzel
      • Ask Doctor Bernofsky (Summer 2014)
      • Horoscopes (Summer 2014)
      • Untitled horrorku by Jessica Meddows
    • Summer 2015
      • “Bitter Medicine” by C.A.L.
      • “Chinese Poetry” by Robert Pritchard
      • “Curio Collector” by Bethany Powell
      • “Her Mother’s Child” by Julie Sondra Decker
      • “Past Modernism” by Leslianne Wilder
      • “Shuffle” by Jennifer K. Oliver
      • “Sinkhole” by Marge Simon
      • “The Posthuman Condition” by Charlotte Ashley
    • Summer 2016
      • “At the Center” by Mari Ness
      • “In Charybdis Bide” by Sean R. Robinson
      • “Of Peach Trees and Coral-Red Roses” by Mina Li
      • “Points of Reverie Aboard the Gen Ship” by T.D. Walker
      • “Social Dinosaurs” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
      • “This Is the Thing” by Chloie Piveral
      • “Tips Welcome” by Anna Zumbro
      • “What They Once Did” by Theresa Lockhart
    • Summer 2017
      • “God Thing” by Julia August
      • “Homes” by Beth Cato
      • “Nothing Is Good, Everything Is Fine” by Ken Brady
      • “Syren Song” by A.C. Buchanan
      • “The Sea Itself” by Seth Jani
      • “The Switch” by Alex Harper
      • “The Waduf” by Naru Dames Sundar
      • “Thousand Young” by Andrew Kaye
    • Summer 2018
      • “Chrysalis Party” by Mary E. Lowd
      • “Generation Ship” by David Barber
      • “Last Bus to What’s Left of Albuquerque” by Carrie Cuinn
      • “Rules of the Zombie Apocalypse” by Todd Dillard
      • “Scorn Not the Least” by Desmond Warzel
      • “Seven Turns Around the Sacred Fire” by Meera Jhala
      • “The Magician Deletes Her Feed” by Kate Lechler
      • “The Young God” by Vanessa Fogg
      • “To My Love at Lagrange Point Five”
    • Summer 2019
      • “Brain-Dead Baby Jesuses” by Mary E. Lowd
      • “Building on Sand” by B. Morris Allen
      • “If Only I Could Sleep” by G.O. Clark
      • “Korzenie” by Aurea Kochanowski
      • “Our Lady of the Light” by S.R. Mandel
      • “Regardless of How Lost You Are Returning From, Regardless of How Far” by Anthony R. Cardno
      • “Texas Weather” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
      • “The Madam, the Odalisque, the Cataphract, and His Sons” by Subodhana Wijeyeratne
      • “The New Arrival” by John Grey
      • “This Is Why I Love You” by Lynette Mejía
      • “Ulek Mayang or The Seven Exiled Sisters” by Nin Harris
      • “Daughters of Silt and Cedar” by Rebecca Mix
    • Summer 2020
      • “A Love Like Bruises” by Jeremy Szal
      • “Exchanged” by Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers
      • “Fairy Tales” by Gretchen Tessmer
      • “Persephone” by Emma J. Gibbon
      • “Sasquatch Summer” by Erica L. Satifka
      • “The Birth and Death of Islands” by Octavia Cade
      • “The Chambermaid” by Mari Ness
      • “The Gentry” by Benjamin C. Kinney
      • “The Wasp-Keeper’s Mother” by Andi C. Buchanan
      • “What Gets Left Behind” by Karen Steiger
      • “Where We Are Bound” by Kate Dollarhyde
      • “Your Harbor Is a Graveyard, Your Sanctuary a Tomb” by Eeleen Lee
    • Winter 2012
      • “Bird Nest Soup” by Madeline Bridgen
      • “Chuck the Penguin” by G.W. Thomas
      • “Double Rations” by Nicky Drayden
      • “Fragments Found in a Book Locked in a Trunk Lost in a Shop Whose Address is Unknown” by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
      • “Gallery of Vanquished Art” by Daniel Ausema
      • “POV” by Patrick Sugrue
      • “Stopping Motion” by Hal Sirowitz
      • “Tea in the Sahara” by Daniel Braum
      • “The End of Owln’s Malt” by A.A. Garrison
      • “The Falcon” by Michael Aronovitz
      • “The Red Threads and the Green Man” by Kenneth Burstall
      • “The Unexpected Geographies of Desire” by Fábio Fernandes
      • Horoscopes (Winter 2012)
    • Winter 2013
      • “Before the Blood” by T.D. Edge
      • “Curiosity” by WC Roberts
      • “Houdini’s Sister” by Christine Hamm
      • “The Murk-Journal (or Once Beyond a Time)” by Danica Cummins
      • “This Is Not a Metaphor” by Christie Yant
      • “How I Found My One True Love and Saved the World from Ruin” by Russ Colson
      • “Necronaut” by Corey Mariani
      • “Remembering the Days that Hurt Us” by Crystal Lynn Hilbert
      • “The October Witch” by Francesca Forrest
      • “Wetwork” by Brendan Detzner
    • Winter 2014
      • “City of the Dying Sun” by Kristin Janz
      • “Jealous Idols” by Jamie Lackey
      • “Memo From Neverland” by Ada Hoffmann
      • “Phantasy Punk” by Josh Storey
      • “Schrödinger In Love” by David Barber
      • “Stowaway to Mars” by H.S. Donnelly
      • “The Man Who Was Perfect in All Ways” by Marge Simon
      • “Winter Bride” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
      • Horoscopes (Winter 2014)
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    • Winter 2015
      • “Atomic Missions” by Michael Andre-Driussi
      • “Bread of Life” by Cynthia McGean
      • “Necessary Evil” by Stephen J. Barringer
      • “The Salt Wedding” by Gemma Files
    • Winter 2016
      • “Counting Mississippis” by Dora Badger
      • “Every Useless Parameter” by Darren Goossens
      • “Evil Days and Countless Wonders” by Patricia Russo
      • “Fox Bear Boy” by Dale Carothers
      • “Not Even Cursed” by Alex Harper
      • “Point Me at the Sky” by Paul Abbamondi
      • “The Bone-Joiner” by Sandi Leibowitz
      • “To Ride the Puca” by Beth Cato
      • Horoscopes
    • Winter 2017
      • “One Thousand Paper Cranes” by Julie C. Day
      • “Scrapie’s Trap” by Lisa Bergin
      • “Ship of Jinn” by Holly Lyn Walrath
      • “The Big Reveal” by David Stevens
      • “The Last Seven Eternities of Dr. Julian Slade, PhD” by Joshua Kamin
      • “The Last Word” by Gwynne Garfinkle
      • “The Song of the Whistling Crab” by Michael McGlade
      • A Word from the Editor
      • “From the Dictionary of Nonexistent Words, A Sampler” by Kathrin Köhler
      • Horoscopes (Winter 2017)
    • Winter 2018
      • “A Slip in the Slice” by Heather Morris
      • “Batman at the Wheel” by Mary Alexandra Agner
      • “Report on Incident 3179” by irving
      • “Shadows and Bells” by Mari Ness
      • “The Fashion of Men” by Kat Otis
      • “The Little Duchess” by Julia August
      • “The Temporary Suicides of Goldfish” by Octavia Cade
      • “Totemic” by Jennifer Crow
      • A Word from the Editor (Winter 2018)
      • Horoscopes (Winter 2018)
    • Winter 2019
      • “All the Glory of Her Earthly Shell” by Holly Lyn Walrath
      • “And Bagoas Danced” by Karolina Fedyk
      • “Changes” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
      • “Even Their Fish” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
      • “The Bone Lands” by Vanessa Fogg
      • “The Scapegoat Village” by Daniel Ausema
      • “Those Who Came Before” by Mack W. Mani
      • “Winter Picnic” by R.K. Duncan
      • “Death and the Tower” by William Broom
      • “When the Ice Comes In” by Ephiny Gale
    • Winter 2020
      • “Afterglow” by Karolina Fedyk
      • “Archipelagic Constellations” by Nin Harris
      • “Dissonance” by Kelly Washington
      • “Fishing” by Cassandra Rose Clarke
      • “Magenta and Indigo and Rust and Blackish-Green” by Matt Weber
      • “Mattress World” by Shannon Connor Winward
      • “Miss Karami’s Academy for Time-Warping Ladies” by Kat Otis
      • “Necessary as a Rose” by Mary E. Lowd
      • “Tasting Menu” by Kristen Koopman
      • “The Hot One” by Marie Vibbert
      • “The Last Ship Out of Exville” by Phoebe Barton
      • “The Narrow Lands of Truth” by Daniel Rosen
      • A Word from the Editor (Winter 2020)
      • Autumn 2019
        • “A Taxonomy of Captured Roses” by Hester J. Rook
        • “Before Dominica” by Cat Sparks
        • “Bury Your Love Head Down” by R.K. Duncan
        • “Doll’s House” by Julia August
        • “Frankincense and Myrrh” by Megan Arkenberg
        • “Here We Are Dragons” by Jennifer Crow
        • “Polymer Island” by Helen Stubbs
        • “The Chopsticks Wizard” by Anya Ow
        • “The Devil and Andrew’s Sprong” by William R. Eakin
        • “The Seventh Brother” by Karolina Fedyk
        • “The Upturned Chalice” by Santiago Belluco
        • “What Waited Beneath the Mountain” by Cassandra Rose Clarke
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Off to see the wizard

Mari Ness, whose poems “Dancing” and “Sleep” appeared in the April 2010 issue of Kaleidotrope, recently re-read all 40 books in the Oz series for Tor.com. I’ve only ever read the first book myself, but her reviews make for some interesting reading.

August 6, 2010 Fred Coppersmith
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