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Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long. ABLUTION | ABYSS & APEX “Ablution” by anne m. gibson . First, I strip off the overalls that I wore in the stables, or what remains of them. The left sleeve is gone, the torso is crusted with blood (some of it mine), and the muck has soaked through the rest. ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox. 2021 AWARDS ELIGIBLE Issue 77: 1st Quarter 2021. FICTION. “Hellhound, Housebroken” by Gerri Leen. “Melton’s Jam” by A.W. Marshall. “Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Hand-Tied Knots” by R. Y. Brockway. “The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun” by Marc A. Criley. “Control State” byMichael
THE DISTANCE
The Distance. The rockets, like shooting stars, zip across the sky, and the red glare. will leave its imprint on your eye, but take heart, for once they disappear, their trails replaced with blue, you will. realize this longing isn’t your fault—. you, stranded on earthwith oil for water.
ABYSS & REVIEWS: 18 WHEELS OF SCIENCE FICTION To my great delight the editor of this anthology and this group of writers managed to capture that feeling over and over again. 18 Wheels of Science Fiction was something of a surprise. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did or to be reminded as much of earlier times in my life as I was. I certainly wanted to like it, but I had a hard RUNAWAY | ABYSS & APEX Mother snuffs the candle, tucks you. under the covers, turns back twice. to be sure you aren’t some dream. Then we are alone in the dark. We don’t speak. The house is asleep. I roll over to face your bed, and catch. the glimmer of your eyes, deep yellow, casting back the beams of the moon. HE SAW | ABYSS & APEX He saw. she didn’t mind the broken roses, the old chocolates scattered on the gold-rimmed plate. All was glitter here. All was gleam. The market had called her from an unknown place. and her eyes were reaching, searching. He stood at his booth with a hundredelephants. lined-up
INSTALLING LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER Step 8: Invocation/boot procedures. Place badger in center of fireproof surface, making sure ventilation is adequate and all doors are locked. Turn off all cell phones and pagers, and cease using all other unapproved electronic devices. Using the badger’s blood, smeara
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, ISSUE 77 Introduction to Poetry, Issue 77. Please enjoy the slate of innovative poets kicking off 2021—a year, I pray, will be healthy, and productive for all y’all: “After the Singularity, the Programmer Goes for a Walk” by Stephanie Yue Duhem (Austin, Texas) “Blue Planet, 1990” by Elizabeth J. Coleman (New York, New York) ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox.OLD PLAYFELLOW
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IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long. ABYSS & REVIEWS: 18 WHEELS OF SCIENCE FICTION To my great delight the editor of this anthology and this group of writers managed to capture that feeling over and over again. 18 Wheels of Science Fiction was something of a surprise. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did or to be reminded as much of earlier times in my life as I was. I certainly wanted to like it, but I had a hard ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox. IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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ABYSS & APEX REVIEWS: LOST SIGNALS edited and developed by Charles E. Gannon. Fans of the Caine Riordan/Terran Republic series will love this book. The interstitial material that connects the stories of various authors is a series of future news articles; fitting since Caine Riordan was originally a news reporter. Open the book and hold onto your hat because, aftersome short
CASCADE | ABYSS & APEX I stare at the roof. I feel my brain closing down, the brainstem, the parietal lobe, the temporal lobe. Blindness strikes me like lightning, a dark flash, then paralysis steals my limbs from me. Then all my memories float up and away from me like oil in water, floating upORC | ABYSS & APEX
Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long. ABYSS & REVIEWS: 18 WHEELS OF SCIENCE FICTION To my great delight the editor of this anthology and this group of writers managed to capture that feeling over and over again. 18 Wheels of Science Fiction was something of a surprise. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did or to be reminded as much of earlier times in my life as I was. I certainly wanted to like it, but I had a hard ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox. IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
2021 AWARDS ELIGIBLE Issue 77: 1st Quarter 2021. FICTION. “Hellhound, Housebroken” by Gerri Leen. “Melton’s Jam” by A.W. Marshall. “Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Hand-Tied Knots” by R. Y. Brockway. “The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun” by Marc A. Criley. “Control State” byMichael
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone.MALUM IN SE
by Deborah L. Davitt. Tanoute Atalia woke from her nightmare as she always did, sweating and flailing. Violet afterimages of the explosion, the dark, alien shapes of the boarding party-. She sat up in the dark. Set her feet on the industrial-grade carpet beside her bunk, and settled her face in her hands, noting as always that thesensation
THE GOLDEN RAYS OF THE MORNING SUN A red zero power level flashes in my cyb eye, then blinks out. I lose the left half of my vision. At the end of the valley something flickers. Kibo stands up and steps out of my halved sight. A thirty meter floating diamond of translucent amber silk curvesCONTROL STATE
“Control State” by Michael Stevens . I don’t mind if the kids blow up my furniture while I’m counseling them. Really. They can singe my office chairs, tip over my bookcase, or rip the heads off the dolls I keep in the toy box, and I don’t break a sweat. ABYSS & APEX REVIEWS: SLICE OF ENTROPY Slice of Entropy (Pizza in Space 1) by Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem LLC) The book opens with grad student Melody Wilder eating some great pizza – pizza that defies the laws of physics – made by her best friend on the space station, an alien Pelk named Drinder. ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox. IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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APNEA | ABYSS & APEX Apnea. Your eyes unclosed, star-fractured, gasping from a wild ocean of dark planet-fall // The-slow turn of the engine-heart lost in storms-unmasked—this atmosphere of red pain, incandescent-flux-in-flood // Your breath stolen, dislocated in sharp fragments and-empty fractures // Wakefulness crazes the world’s age-old night with fire and CASCADE | ABYSS & APEX I stare at the roof. I feel my brain closing down, the brainstem, the parietal lobe, the temporal lobe. Blindness strikes me like lightning, a dark flash, then paralysis steals my limbs from me. Then all my memories float up and away from me like oil in water, floating upORC | ABYSS & APEX
Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long. ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox. IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long. ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox. IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
2021 AWARDS ELIGIBLE Issue 77: 1st Quarter 2021. FICTION. “Hellhound, Housebroken” by Gerri Leen. “Melton’s Jam” by A.W. Marshall. “Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Hand-Tied Knots” by R. Y. Brockway. “The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun” by Marc A. Criley. “Control State” byMichael
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Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long. ABYSS & REVIEWS: 18 WHEELS OF SCIENCE FICTION To my great delight the editor of this anthology and this group of writers managed to capture that feeling over and over again. 18 Wheels of Science Fiction was something of a surprise. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did or to be reminded as much of earlier times in my life as I was. I certainly wanted to like it, but I had a hard HE SAW | ABYSS & APEX He saw. she didn’t mind the broken roses, the old chocolates scattered on the gold-rimmed plate. All was glitter here. All was gleam. The market had called her from an unknown place. and her eyes were reaching, searching. He stood at his booth with a hundredelephants. lined-up
THE DISTANCE
The Distance. The rockets, like shooting stars, zip across the sky, and the red glare. will leave its imprint on your eye, but take heart, for once they disappear, their trails replaced with blue, you will. realize this longing isn’t your fault—. you, stranded on earthwith oil for water.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone. ABYSS & APEX REVIEWS: SLICE OF ENTROPY Slice of Entropy (Pizza in Space 1) by Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem LLC) The book opens with grad student Melody Wilder eating some great pizza – pizza that defies the laws of physics – made by her best friend on the space station, an alien Pelk named Drinder. INSTALLING LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER Step 8: Invocation/boot procedures. Place badger in center of fireproof surface, making sure ventilation is adequate and all doors are locked. Turn off all cell phones and pagers, and cease using all other unapproved electronic devices. Using the badger’s blood, smeara
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, ISSUE 77 Introduction to Poetry, Issue 77. Please enjoy the slate of innovative poets kicking off 2021—a year, I pray, will be healthy, and productive for all y’all: “After the Singularity, the Programmer Goes for a Walk” by Stephanie Yue Duhem (Austin, Texas) “Blue Planet, 1990” by Elizabeth J. Coleman (New York, New York) ENTRIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DIARY PERTAINING TO MY August 14, 1938: Robbie wouldnt sleep in firebox laid on rug. legs ignited set rug on fire. scooped with mitts into firebox singed hair. Robert dumped potty bucket on rug ruined it. Robbie in flames all night firebox went up to 385°. poor boy crying alone in firebox. ABYSS & APEX2020 AWARDS ELIGIBLEARCHIVESLOGINSUBMISSIONSABOUT USAWARDS& HONORS
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For more fiction by Desmond Warzel, click on the following links. “New Archangel” was published in Candle in the Attic Window (2009) reviewed by Abyss & Apex here. “Fields” was in the anthology Terminal Earth, (Dec 2010, ed. Neil Thomas, Michael Stewart, publishedby Pound Lit Press)
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2021 AWARDS ELIGIBLE Issue 77: 1st Quarter 2021. FICTION. “Hellhound, Housebroken” by Gerri Leen. “Melton’s Jam” by A.W. Marshall. “Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Hand-Tied Knots” by R. Y. Brockway. “The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun” by Marc A. Criley. “Control State” byMichael
ABYSS & APEX REVIEWS: LOST SIGNALS edited and developed by Charles E. Gannon. Fans of the Caine Riordan/Terran Republic series will love this book. The interstitial material that connects the stories of various authors is a series of future news articles; fitting since Caine Riordan was originally a news reporter. Open the book and hold onto your hat because, aftersome short
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone.MY MAGIC, MY SPELL
But sometimes, Tilly, when you walked under the trees, the branches above rustled and swayed. I swear, some days the squirrels waltzed when you walked past. After that night, Mage Dawlins kept her private library locked. Tilly broke up with you, quit IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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For more fiction by Desmond Warzel, click on the following links. “New Archangel” was published in Candle in the Attic Window (2009) reviewed by Abyss & Apex here. “Fields” was in the anthology Terminal Earth, (Dec 2010, ed. Neil Thomas, Michael Stewart, publishedby Pound Lit Press)
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2021 AWARDS ELIGIBLE Issue 77: 1st Quarter 2021. FICTION. “Hellhound, Housebroken” by Gerri Leen. “Melton’s Jam” by A.W. Marshall. “Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Hand-Tied Knots” by R. Y. Brockway. “The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun” by Marc A. Criley. “Control State” byMichael
ABYSS & APEX REVIEWS: LOST SIGNALS edited and developed by Charles E. Gannon. Fans of the Caine Riordan/Terran Republic series will love this book. The interstitial material that connects the stories of various authors is a series of future news articles; fitting since Caine Riordan was originally a news reporter. Open the book and hold onto your hat because, aftersome short
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone.MY MAGIC, MY SPELL
But sometimes, Tilly, when you walked under the trees, the branches above rustled and swayed. I swear, some days the squirrels waltzed when you walked past. After that night, Mage Dawlins kept her private library locked. Tilly broke up with you, quit IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long.BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone. CASCADE | ABYSS & APEX I stare at the roof. I feel my brain closing down, the brainstem, the parietal lobe, the temporal lobe. Blindness strikes me like lightning, a dark flash, then paralysis steals my limbs from me. Then all my memories float up and away from me like oil in water, floating up ABYSS & REVIEWS: 18 WHEELS OF SCIENCE FICTION To my great delight the editor of this anthology and this group of writers managed to capture that feeling over and over again. 18 Wheels of Science Fiction was something of a surprise. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did or to be reminded as much of earlier times in my life as I was. I certainly wanted to like it, but I had a hard APNEA | ABYSS & APEX Apnea. Your eyes unclosed, star-fractured, gasping from a wild ocean of dark planet-fall // The-slow turn of the engine-heart lost in storms-unmasked—this atmosphere of red pain, incandescent-flux-in-flood // Your breath stolen, dislocated in sharp fragments and-empty fractures // Wakefulness crazes the world’s age-old night with fire andTHE DISTANCE
The Distance. The rockets, like shooting stars, zip across the sky, and the red glare. will leave its imprint on your eye, but take heart, for once they disappear, their trails replaced with blue, you will. realize this longing isn’t your fault—. you, stranded on earthwith oil for water.
MY MAGIC, MY SPELL
But sometimes, Tilly, when you walked under the trees, the branches above rustled and swayed. I swear, some days the squirrels waltzed when you walked past. After that night, Mage Dawlins kept her private library locked. Tilly broke up with you, quit HE SAW | ABYSS & APEX He saw. she didn’t mind the broken roses, the old chocolates scattered on the gold-rimmed plate. All was glitter here. All was gleam. The market had called her from an unknown place. and her eyes were reaching, searching. He stood at his booth with a hundredelephants. lined-up
FIVE REASONS FOR THE SIGN ABOVE HER DOOR, ONE OF THEM 4. She speaks of the night she nearly froze to death. She’d been traveling with three others, Colt (ze had a Texas drawl, a slow smile, and a sharp knife ready to answer any danger), Danny (who had lost an arm to a “treatment,” and who was the kindest boy she’d ever met), and a gray-eyed girl who spoke in sign-language and never gave ABYSS & APEX2020 AWARDS ELIGIBLEARCHIVESLOGINSUBMISSIONSABOUT USAWARDS & HONORSABYSS AND APEX MAGAZINEABYSS AND APEX MAGAZINE SUBMISSIONABYSS AND APEX SUBMISSIONSAPEX LITERARY MAGAZINEAPEX MAGAZINE SUBMISSIONSUBMISSION GRINDER APEX Magazine of Speculative Fiction. SUBSCRIBE. Sign up for quarterly newsletter from Abyss & Apex.SUBMISSIONS
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For more fiction by Desmond Warzel, click on the following links. “New Archangel” was published in Candle in the Attic Window (2009) reviewed by Abyss & Apex here. “Fields” was in the anthology Terminal Earth, (Dec 2010, ed. Neil Thomas, Michael Stewart, publishedby Pound Lit Press)
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2021 AWARDS ELIGIBLE Issue 77: 1st Quarter 2021. FICTION. “Hellhound, Housebroken” by Gerri Leen. “Melton’s Jam” by A.W. Marshall. “Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Hand-Tied Knots” by R. Y. Brockway. “The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun” by Marc A. Criley. “Control State” byMichael
ABYSS & APEX REVIEWS: LOST SIGNALS edited and developed by Charles E. Gannon. Fans of the Caine Riordan/Terran Republic series will love this book. The interstitial material that connects the stories of various authors is a series of future news articles; fitting since Caine Riordan was originally a news reporter. Open the book and hold onto your hat because, aftersome short
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone.MY MAGIC, MY SPELL
But sometimes, Tilly, when you walked under the trees, the branches above rustled and swayed. I swear, some days the squirrels waltzed when you walked past. After that night, Mage Dawlins kept her private library locked. Tilly broke up with you, quit IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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For more fiction by Desmond Warzel, click on the following links. “New Archangel” was published in Candle in the Attic Window (2009) reviewed by Abyss & Apex here. “Fields” was in the anthology Terminal Earth, (Dec 2010, ed. Neil Thomas, Michael Stewart, publishedby Pound Lit Press)
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2021 AWARDS ELIGIBLE Issue 77: 1st Quarter 2021. FICTION. “Hellhound, Housebroken” by Gerri Leen. “Melton’s Jam” by A.W. Marshall. “Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Hand-Tied Knots” by R. Y. Brockway. “The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun” by Marc A. Criley. “Control State” byMichael
ABYSS & APEX REVIEWS: LOST SIGNALS edited and developed by Charles E. Gannon. Fans of the Caine Riordan/Terran Republic series will love this book. The interstitial material that connects the stories of various authors is a series of future news articles; fitting since Caine Riordan was originally a news reporter. Open the book and hold onto your hat because, aftersome short
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone.MY MAGIC, MY SPELL
But sometimes, Tilly, when you walked under the trees, the branches above rustled and swayed. I swear, some days the squirrels waltzed when you walked past. After that night, Mage Dawlins kept her private library locked. Tilly broke up with you, quit IT’LL ALL BE OVER SOON It’ll All Be Over Soonby C. Erickson. The wings sprouted as gnarled nubs of bone and nascent feather seeds, scratching and poking their way to the surface of the skin, piercing each subcutaneous layer of flesh like a tender and ruthless plant. Arriving with them was the unrelenting pain that woke Jess up, who with a shaking arm reachedback
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Like a sea beast, big-eyed and tentacled, I longed for depths. I watched clouds drift over the moon upon a patch of magic mushrooms. I soaked up enchantment’s chill mist, unchecked as any beast, fanged as the damned. Love—impossible, despised. I cursed and bristled like wild thistle . . . I have found that the road, indeed, is long.BIRDS OF A FEATHER
“Birds of a Feather” This has been a hard year for those who are a part of the science fiction and fantasy community. We haven’t been able to get together with our “tribe” – lockdowns and a lack of opportunities to congregate have kept us home and alone. CASCADE | ABYSS & APEX I stare at the roof. I feel my brain closing down, the brainstem, the parietal lobe, the temporal lobe. Blindness strikes me like lightning, a dark flash, then paralysis steals my limbs from me. Then all my memories float up and away from me like oil in water, floating up ABYSS & REVIEWS: 18 WHEELS OF SCIENCE FICTION To my great delight the editor of this anthology and this group of writers managed to capture that feeling over and over again. 18 Wheels of Science Fiction was something of a surprise. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did or to be reminded as much of earlier times in my life as I was. I certainly wanted to like it, but I had a hard APNEA | ABYSS & APEX Apnea. Your eyes unclosed, star-fractured, gasping from a wild ocean of dark planet-fall // The-slow turn of the engine-heart lost in storms-unmasked—this atmosphere of red pain, incandescent-flux-in-flood // Your breath stolen, dislocated in sharp fragments and-empty fractures // Wakefulness crazes the world’s age-old night with fire andTHE DISTANCE
The Distance. The rockets, like shooting stars, zip across the sky, and the red glare. will leave its imprint on your eye, but take heart, for once they disappear, their trails replaced with blue, you will. realize this longing isn’t your fault—. you, stranded on earthwith oil for water.
MY MAGIC, MY SPELL
But sometimes, Tilly, when you walked under the trees, the branches above rustled and swayed. I swear, some days the squirrels waltzed when you walked past. After that night, Mage Dawlins kept her private library locked. Tilly broke up with you, quit HE SAW | ABYSS & APEX He saw. she didn’t mind the broken roses, the old chocolates scattered on the gold-rimmed plate. All was glitter here. All was gleam. The market had called her from an unknown place. and her eyes were reaching, searching. He stood at his booth with a hundredelephants. lined-up
FIVE REASONS FOR THE SIGN ABOVE HER DOOR, ONE OF THEM 4. She speaks of the night she nearly froze to death. She’d been traveling with three others, Colt (ze had a Texas drawl, a slow smile, and a sharp knife ready to answer any danger), Danny (who had lost an arm to a “treatment,” and who was the kindest boy she’d ever met), and a gray-eyed girl who spoke in sign-language and never gaveABYSS & APEX
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