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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)
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    • “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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