Dennis Mombauer

The House of Drought

Aisha Phoenix

Tom Barlow

Milo James Fowler

Jason Bougger

Blake Gilmore

Rebecca Linam

Matthew C. Lucas

DC Mallery

Matthew McAyeal

With each issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly, we strive to bring fans of speculative fiction an engaging and entertaining variety of stories from new and established authors in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres. In this issue: stories by Tom Barlow, Jason Bougger, Milo James Fowler, Blake Gilmore, Rebecca Linam, Matthew C. Lucas, DC Mallery, Matthew McAyeal, Dennis Mombauer, Aisha Phoenix, Robin Reed, Daniel Ryan, Nicholas Stillman, Daniel Stride, Harold R. Thompson, and Sophie van Llewyn.

Bards and Sages Quarterly (October 2017)

Maya Chhabra

N. A. Sulway

Evan Dicken

Cat Rambo

Mike Morgan

Jamie Lackey

Anna Martino

Lin Darrow

Jude Reid

Melissa Mead

Rebecca Treasure

Alex Langer

Joshua Gage

Suri Parmar

Taryn Haas

Anna Madden

Kit Falbo

C. J. Dotson

Brent Baldwin

Fairy tales and folk tales, originally passed down orally through generations, are a fundamental part of our shared world culture.They are a way to interpret - through magic and monsters, princesses and paupers, queens and quests - lessons on morality and society. They show a once upon a time world of simple archetypes in fantastical situations.This book gathers twenty-one authors who have brought new focus to fairy tales by combining two well known stories with a literary genre of their choice.Upon a Once Time contains the following tales re-imagined: The Arthurian Cycle, The Bad Wife, Beauty and the Beast, The Boy Who Drew Cats, The Brown Bear of Norway, Caliph Stork, Cinderella, Diamonds and Toads, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, The Goblin Spider, The Golem of Prague, Iron John, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Math Fab Mathonwy, Momotaro, The Nightingale, Petrosinella, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed, The Red Shoes, Rumpelstiltskin, Rusalka Tales, Schneewittchen, The Selkie Bride, Sleeping Beauty, The Swineherd, Taketori Monogatari, Thousandfurs, Tom Thumb, The Twelve Months, The Valiant Little Tailor, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Vasilisa the Wise, The Waters of Life, The Well of the World's End, The Wild Swans, and The Woodcutter's Daughter.

Upon a Once Time

Alison Wilgus

Holly Schofield

Gustavo Bondoni

M. Darusha Wehm

Thomas Webb

Langley Hyde

Katrina Archer

F. J. Bergmann

Wendy S. Delmater

Salvatore Difalco

Anthony W. Eichenlaub

Eric S. Fomley

John Cooper Hamilton

Charlotte H. Lee

Melanie Rees

D. A. Xiaolin Spires

Marie Vibbert

Melissa Yuan-Innes

Little Blue Marble magazine's year in stories: flash fiction, microfiction, and more! Tales of our changing world by these authors from around the globe: F. J. Bergmann, Gustavo Bondoni, Wendy S. Delmater, Salvatore Difalco, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Eric S. Fomley, John Cooper Hamilton, Langley Hyde, Charlotte H. Lee, Dennis Mombauer, Melanie Rees, Holly Schofield, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Marie Vibbert, Thomas Webb, M. Darusha Wehm, Alison Wilgus, Melissa Yuan-Innes From rising tides to edible homes, weather control and tornado killers, floating city-states and plant-based humans, Little Blue Marble 2018 brings you poignant, sometimes hopeful but often biting visions of our futures living with climate change.

Little Blue Marble 2018

Dennis Mombauer

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