This time 124 isn’t spiteful, just full of mischief!

regular sized person and extremely large white goat study one another

As the steel-wool clouds squeeze gallon after gallon of dishwater-warm water over everything, we are glad to be typing this from our nice dry cave with a mug of ginger beer, a bowl of soft pretzels, and some cheerful strings of fairy lights. With haiku from Randy Brooks and stories from Peter Hoppock, Robert Tyler, and Allen Seward, and amazing cover art from Gimal Udara, issue one hundred twenty-four is full of quiet wonders and the sorts of small surprises that jolt us fully awake for a moment, like literary espresso shots.

Absorb it online or slather on the .pdf.

Put your tentacles together for the January issue!

A hanging incandescent light bulb holds a cozy winter snowglobe scene with a cabin and a pine tree

Well, it’s 2024 now, which sounds suspiciously made-up and futuristic, but we’ll leave the calendar verification to the goblin particle astrologicians and focus instead on the dramatic unveiling of our one hundred twenty-third issue, which is stuffed with enough delectably weird stories and poems to sustain you through the cold, cold months ahead. Once you’ve bundled up and settled in with fiction from Jimmy Huff, flash from Jon Doughboy and Lydia Storm, poetry from Peter Dellolio and Patrick Meeds, and haiku from Nicholas Klacsanzky, you won’t even hear those unhinged winter winds twistering through the pines outside your cave. And be sure to visit the cosy cover art from Nini Kvaratskhelia.

Hoot it on the website or holler at the .pdf.

Just in time for halloween e’en . . .

cat astronaut waving

Dust off the gramophone, slap on your creepiest record of haunted-house sounds, and prepare to read our one-hundred-twenty-twooth issue in your best Vincent Price voice. With haiku from Tohm Bakelas and Arvilla Fee and verse from Sharon Kennedy-Nolle and Amy Wunders, this selection of bite-sized delights is suitable for even the most discerning trick-or-treater’s candy sack. Space odd-kitty cover art by Mya Woods.