It seems like all the small presses got on their best party clothes and published their latest 'zines in time for the World Fantasy Convention. And are we lucky! Do stop in and get yourself a copy of the very excellent new issue of Flytrap, edited by Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw. Flytrap offers a collection of surreal, experimental, fantastical, and just plain original short fiction -- along with poetry, essays and book reviews. It is wickedly funny in parts -- Nick Matamas' hilarious notes from his MFA program in Creative Writing reminded me of my own excruciating experience, John Hansen's poem "Seven Songs A Fantasy Writer Sings to His Newborn Baby" is a quick belly laugh, and in this the football-slash-halloween season, "The Goblin Party" is a scream. "Corn" by Elie Moser is strange and gorgeous (reminiscent of Julio Cortazar's work), and "419 Memoirs" by Michael Canfield is a clever palimpsest of short-short biographical pairs. Here's the full table of contents:
Stories:
"419 Memoirs" by Michael Canfield
"The High Chair" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"When We Slew Dragons" by Jennifer Schwabach
"Corn" by Elise Moser
"The After-Life" by Jan Wildt
"Discovery's Wake" by M.K. Hobson
"Grandma Charlie and the Wolves" by David J. Schwartz
"The Sun Diary" by Lavie TidharPoems by Featured Poet Jon Hansen:
"Seven Songs the Fantasy Writer Sings to His Newborn Baby"
"The Goblin Party"
"Universal Language"
"The Laundromat Advances the Plot"Nonfiction:
Life Among the Obliterati #6: "MFA Cliché" by Nick Matamas
Words and Stuff: "Overstressed, Understressed" by Jed Hartman
Don't delay! Click here to order your issue on line and help support another terrific small press magazine.
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