Emily B. Cataneo

Speaking to Skull Kings

Charles Payseur

Laurie Tom

Sarah Avery

Andrew Kaye

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #5 includes 10 short stories: "The City Dreams of Bird-Men" - Emily Cataneo "Moksha" - Andrew Kaye "The White Snake" - Laurie Tom "Tempest Fugit" - Christine Borne "Sticks and Stones" - Jarod K. Anderson "The Thousand Year Tart" - Charles Payseur "How the Grail Came to the Fisher King" - Sarah Avery "Human Bones" - John Giezentanner "Bandit" - John H. Stevens Graphic Story: "Shamrock" - Josh Brown & Josh Fortune In the non-fiction section, this issue features: Interview with Author Jim Hines Interview with Author Sarah Avery Interview with Author Christine Borne Interview with Award Winning Editor John Joseph Adams Artist Spotlight: Todor Hristov Book Review: Echopraxia (Peter Watts) Movie Review: Rigor Mortis (Juno Mak) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #5

Ken Liu

Lucy A. Snyder

Pip Ballantine

Malon Edwards

Maurice Broaddus

Jody Lynn Nye

Matthew Bright

Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

Andrew Knighton

Liam Hogan

Diana M. Pho

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

Suna Dasi

Lyndsay E. Gilbert

Candida Spillard

Kate Coe

Zach Chapman

Fiction has a special role in the way we relate to each other. Fiction can take us outside of our own experience and give us a small hint of what it's like to be someone else. Speculative fiction - including steampunk - has always been a metaphorical mirror to our own society, allowing us to see ourselves and our behaviors from the outside in ways that we otherwise couldn't. It's not magic. It's the interworking of dozens of finely machined gears. It's the craftswoman adjusting the tension on a spring so it doesn't break. It's the stoker making sure the furnace fires stay burning. It's the conductor collecting tickets, the passengers watching the landscape roll by, the excited child standing next to the engineer who gets to pull the cord and hear the train's steam whistle. It might not be magic, but it's still amazing. Especially with a project like Steampunk Universe, making an anthology of steampunk stories that feature diverse characters who are disabled or aneurotypical. Join editor Sarah Hans, our cover artist James Ng, and contributors Ken Liu, Jody Lynn Nye, Maurice Broaddus, Malon Edwards, Emily Cataneo, Pip Ballantine and nine others today.

Emily B. Cataneo

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