Issue Six | Nov 2013

Birdbeaks of Light Jedd Cole

Healing Hands Matt Ayers

The Delicacy Hall Jameson

The Message in the Sound Mary Renzi

A Matter of Doroteya Bill Tyrell

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From the Editor:

It’s official: this is our strangest issue yet. And we couldn’t be prouder! Perhaps strangest of all is that this issue’s Inadvertent Theme is so elusive, so deceptively subtle, we had to exact all our cunning to coax it into the open. Using these brief summaries, see if you can spot the overlap: a mysterious bird plays grim reaper, demons threaten to conquer the world, people turn into mollusks and poison each other, a giant toad controls a small town’s fate, and aliens manipulate science fiction writers to do their bidding. Give up? If you said “weird creatures dictate human life,” you win! To make it sound pretty, the official I.T. this time is “The Oddness that Owns Us.”

We kick off this issue with Jedd Cole’s “Birdbeaks of Light,” a surrealistic journey through a purgatorial desert of nightmares and memories. Next we present Matt Ayers’ “Healing Hands,” wherein a sarcastic, burned-out physical therapist accidentally turns all his patients into blood-hungry demons. Hall Jameson’s “The Delicacy” follows that, relating the tale of a woman turned into an obscure mollusk, the apple of a great chef’s eye. After that, we offer Mary Renzi’s “The Message in the Sound,” the story of a young girl and the gigantic, luminous amphibian she befriends. We wrap up this issue with Bill Tyrell’s “A Matter of Doroteya,” which tells of a man’s desperate attempt to get published in a prestigious sci-fi magazine, only to unleash imminent danger and a strange, startling truth.

Tea for the Read: Chai. Like our Sixth Issue, chai is a perfect blend of sweet and spicy, and, like all good things, will leave you craving more. In the case of this issue, the sweet is the weirdness, the spicy is the peril. Overall, it’s a recipe we’re proud to serve up, one that a hot cup of chai will accentuate with each turn of the digital page. Enjoy.

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Cover art © 2013 Tasica Singleton