Postscripts, Peter Crowther, ed. PS Publishing
Burn, James Patrick Kelly, Tachyon Publications ISBN:... 
Dust motes moved like tiny dancers in the sunbeam that sought out the dead man’s face. They caught in his... 
Caitlin Sweet , The Pattern Scars, ISBN: 9781926851433, ChiZine Publications, September 2011.
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We welcome M.Rickert as our Featured Author for April, May and June. Her first story is the gentle and... 
A finite xenoflora,
in this refuge,
seamlessly recursive;
its fractal beaches
flower in the heat
of... And we’re back, with our first issue of 2013, a double handful of emotional stories and poems for the dark beginnings of spring. Our March issues always fall, without plans for it, into a travelling theme; here are some tales for the road.
Gabriel Murray’s “Swan-Brother” takes us into an alternate historical world for a story that’s infinitely close to home; Leah Thomas’s “Rubbernecking” gauges the distance between us and the house next door, and how near or far it can really be; and Sunny Moraine’s “The Horse Latitudes” combs two blood-soaked pasts and turns its bearings toward a new way.
Poetry from Megan Arkenberg, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Alexandra Seidel, and Michele Bannister travels through crossroads and orbits alike, into the space between where we are and what we desire – and as always, our book reviewers bring you their thoughts on the latest releases.
We hope you enjoy this quarter’s issue, and if so, please consider dropping something into our tip jar. Ideomancer relies on reader donations to pay its contributors for their excellent fiction and poetry, and even five dollars makes a big difference.
Enjoy the issue, Happy New Year, and we’ll see you in the springtime!
Leah Bobet
Publisher
Contents
Vol. 12 Issue 1
Editor’s Note
Fiction
“Swan-Brother” – Gabriel Murray
“Rubbernecking” – Leah Thomas
“The Horse Latitudes” – Sunny Moraine
Poetry
“Songs at a Crossroads” – Megan Arkenberg
“The High Tree on the Hill” – David C. Kopaska-Merkel
“Uncertainty Principle” – Alexandra Seidel
“Orpheus in Orbit” – Michele Bannister
Reviews
M.C. Planck’s The Kassa Gambit – Liz Bourke
Felix Gilman’s The Rise of Ransom City – Liz Bourke
Melanie Rawn’s Touchstone – Liz Bourke
As we head into winter – and our final issue of 2012 – we’re happy to offer up three stories and four poems by authors from Sri Lanka to Shanghai to Saskatchewan: all of them delving into what it means to make a change, and the consequences that rush in after.
In Sara K. Ellis’s “Sub”, one inner-city girl makes a change for the better, and comes to grapple with what better means; Adam Mills’s “The Artist in the Tower” meditates on revolution, myth-making, and the tension between how people lived and what we can believe; and Rachel Derksen’s “Alterations for Beginners” tells a story about impact, and how we make it when nobody’s looking.
Poetry from Vajra Chandrasekera, Lisa M. Cole, Yunsheng Jiang, and Holly R. Appling touches on the moving of the seasons, the ending of the world, and people’s moves toward and away from each other both – and as always, our book reviewers bring you their thoughts on the latest releases.
We hope you enjoy this quarter’s issue, and if so, please consider dropping something into our tip jar. Ideomancer relies on reader donations to pay its contributors for their excellent fiction and poetry, and even five dollars makes a big difference.
Enjoy the issue, Happy New Year, and we’ll see you in the springtime!
Leah Bobet
Publisher
Contents
Vol. 11 Issue 4
Editor’s Note
Fiction
“Sub” – Sara K. Ellis
“The Artist in the Tower” – Adam Mills
“Alterations for Beginners” – Rachel Derksen
Poetry
“Jörmungandr” – Vajra Chandrasekera
“After Songs” – Lisa M. Cole
“Haiku” – Yunsheng Jiang
“Apple” – Holly R. Appling
Reviews
Chaz Brenchley’s House of Bells – Liz Bourke
Barbara Hambly’s The Magistrates of Hell – Liz Bourke
Our third issue of 2012 is all about insides and outsides, and the delicate, permeable walls between.
Alexei Collier’s “The Bohemians” ponders the fine lines between persona and person, and how prepared we are – or aren’t – to see both in someone; Nathaniel Lee’s “Gastrophidia” literally tackles the disasters that occur when the things one holds inside break into open air; and James Will Brady – another Ideomancer author who’s made the transition to joining our editorial staff! – caps off the issue with “Judge,” which treads the tricky territory between part of the group and outsider, and who’s in or out in whose eyes.
Poetry from Ann Schwader, David Glen Larson, Barry King, and Alexa Seidel transmogrifies, metamorphoses, and takes on new forms – and as always, there are the usual book reviews.
We hope you enjoy this quarter’s issue, and if so, please consider dropping something into our tip jar. Ideomancer relies on reader donations to pay its contributors for their excellent fiction and poetry, and even five dollars makes a big difference.
Enjoy the issue, and have a wonderful autumn.
Leah Bobet
Publisher
Contents
Vol. 11 Issue 3
Editor’s Note
Fiction
“The Bohemians” – Alexei Collier
“Gastrophidia” – Nathaniel Lee
“Judge” – James Will Brady
Poetry
“A Metamorphosis of Dream” – Alexandra Seidel
“Ana Morphosis” – David Glen Larson
“Svartálfar Rising” – Barry King
“Launching Atlantis” – Ann K. Schwader
Reviews
Beth Bernobich’s Queen’s Hunt – Liz Bourke
John Scalzi’s Redshirts – Maya Chhabra
Kari Sperring’s The Grass King’s Concubine – Liz Bourke
Our second issue of 2012 goes on some wandering summer travels through three very different rural geographies.
Wendy N. Wagner’s “Barnstormers” shows us a night on a summer fairground tour in a small and dusty future; Maigen Turner’s “Eliza Jane Goes Into Town” – her first publication! – tells a frontier story about our complicated relationships with the wilderness outside our windows; and Frank Ard’s “The Sensation of Falling” is laced with geography changed and changing: the maps of home, family, and what away means shifting under your feet.
Poetry from Michele Bannister, Devon Miller-Duggan, Christelle Mariano, and Eric Zboya goes to other planets, other media, and underwater in your dreams – and as always, there are the usual book reviews.
We hope you enjoy this quarter’s issue, and if so, please consider dropping something into our tip jar. Ideomancer relies on reader donations to pay its contributors for their excellent fiction and poetry, and even five dollars makes a big difference.
Enjoy the issue, and have a wonderful summer, wherever your travelling feet take you.
Leah Bobet
Publisher
Contents
Vol. 11 Issue 2
Editor’s Note
Fiction
“Barnstormers” – Wendy N. Wagner
“Eliza Jane Goes Into Town” – Maigen Turner
“The Sensation of Falling” – Frank Ard
Poetry
“Anvil-Mistress” – Michele Bannister
“Teaching the Fisher Queen” – Devon Miller-Duggan
“Alimu-om” – Christelle Mariano
“M1″ – Eric Zboya
Reviews
Stephen Graham King’s Chasing Cold – Claire Humphrey
Mary Gentle’s The Black Opera: a novel of operas, volcanoes, and the Mind of God – Liz Bourke
Our first issue of 2012 tangles, as everything outside the window’s slowly waking up, with the complications of desire.
In Sofia Samatar’s “The Nazir”, two very different women struggle with being kept from the things they want — or, alternately, the price of getting them; S.E. Gale’s “Chorus of the Dead” mingles regret, desire, and silences into a less-usual story about death; and George Galuschak’s “The Wanting Game” defines a line between want, and sacrifice, and need.
Poetry from Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, W.C. Roberts, N. Marin, and Robert K. Gardner yearns for certainty, and completion, and what was and what could be — and as always, there are the usual book reviews.
We hope you enjoy this quarter’s issue, and if so, please consider dropping something into our tip jar. Ideomancer relies on reader donations to pay its contributors for their excellent fiction and poetry, and even five dollars makes a big difference.
Enjoy the issue, enjoy your spring, and may you get that much closer to the things you uncomplicatedly desire.
Leah Bobet
Publisher
Contents
Vol. 11 Issue 1
Editor’s Note
Fiction
“The Nazir” – Sofia Samatar
“Chorus of the Dead” – S. E. Gale
“The Wanting Game” – George Galuschak
Poetry
“Sweet Mercy, Her Body an Ark of Wild Beasts” – Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
“ZuZu’s Petals” – W. C. Roberts
“Vintage” – N. Marin
“Nightstorm” – Robert K. Gardner
Reviews
Elizabeth Bear’s Range of Ghosts – Liz Bourke
Michele Lang’s Dark Victory – Maya Chhabra
Our final issue for 2011 speaks on a winter topic: connection, and isolation, for the months when we here at Ideomancer headquarters are hemmed in most by the snow and dark, and reach out most to each other for light.
Michael John Grist’s “The Orphan Queen” shows, slantwise, the terribleness of isolation and the terrible bravery it takes to conquer it; Kenneth Schneyer’s “Neural Net,” one of our first pieces of hyperfiction in much too long, echoes through its intertwined structure the ideas of withdrawal, and love, and hiding from the world; and Erica Satifka returns to our pages with “Signs Following”, a soft, edged story about faraway places and the things we will do when our ties to both friends and universe are threatened.
Poetry from Mary Turzillo, Brit Mandelo, C.G. Olsen, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel dips from relationships to houses to black holes, all places to be alone together, and as always, the usual book reviews.
We’d also like to note another staff departure: Marsha Sisolak has been a part of Ideomancer since 2002, as a junior editor, then publisher, and then the aesthetic eye behind the art that goes up with every story and poem we publish, and after almost a decade in the small press coal mines, she’s moving on to focus more on her own (excellent!) writing. Thank you, Marsha – you’ll be missed!
We hope you enjoy this quarter’s issue, and if so, please consider dropping something into our tip jar. Ideomancer relies on reader donations to pay its contributors for their excellent fiction and poetry, and even five dollars makes a big difference.
Happy holidays, keep each other warm, and have a wonderful winter.
Leah Bobet
Publisher
Contents
Vol. 10 Issue 4
Editor’s Note
Fiction
“The Orphan Queen” – Michael John Grist
“Neural Net” – Kenneth Schneyer
“Signs Following” – Erica Satifka
Poetry
“Persephone in Autumn” – Mary Turzillo
“On Moving Into Your New Home” – Brit Mandelo
“The Cabin and the Stars” – C. G. Olsen
“Taking it Slow” – David Kopaska-Merkel
Reviews
Terry Pratchett’s Snuff – Liz Bourke
Caitlin Sweet’s Pattern Scars – Leah Bobet
