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"My gold made her into a queen, although she hated me for it." |
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"Emily had the strange touch in three fingers: thumb, first, and middle on just her right hand. The midwife told her mother it was so within the baby's first hour out of the sea she grew in, kicking, for seven months. She busted out early, scrawny and wailing, with three twitchy fingers scratching colors into the air." |
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poetry
Five Days After
by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
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review December Reviews by Elizabeth Bear
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by N.K. Jemisin |
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The Choir Boats, by Daniel A. Rabuzzi Desideria, by Nicole Kornher-Stace |
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the magazine
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this quarter
Our last issue of 2009, December, tosses out a shout-out to folktales told against the cold with a lineup of more traditional fantasy fiction and poetry. If our folktales are a little more modern, well, that's par for the course. C.S.E. Cooney's "Oak Park Eris" dips into the everyday problems of a middle-aged witch -- in the suburbs of Chicago; Mari Ness reimagines an old fairytale with "Rumpled Skin"; and Autumn Canter narrates the impact of magic on one woman, one family, and one mid-20th century town. Our poets this month -- Megan Arkenberg, Michael Meyerhofer, Jennifer Jerome, and Marcie Lynn Tentchoff -- all tackle traditional fairytale material with a modern sensibility: reimagining, recasting, and reconsidering those oldest winter stories. Ideomancer's observing the winter as well: we'll be closed to submissions until March 1, working away on a new website, new material, and some new features in time for spring. From all of us here, have a wonderful winter, and enjoy the December issue! Leah Bobet |
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