John Biggs

Jeremy Megargee

S. D. Hintz

Somer Canon

Deb Jannerson

Dawn Vogel

Adrian Ludens

Lynda Clark

Eddie Generous

Leigh Harlen

Kate Coe

Shannon Iwanski

Christine Lejewski

Lisa Finch

Kim Munsamy

Joseph Shelton

Theric Jepson

Joni Chng

Chris Kuriata

Donna A. Leahey

Michelle Ann King

J. A. W. McCarthy

Death is permanent. This is the falsehood that we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night. It's the lie that we tell our children so they don't carry their kitten's corpse to the old cemetery deep in the forest. It's the myth that we wrap ourselves in so we can ignore the gut-wrenching terror of what really follows deaththe unfathomable unkno

The Misbehaving Dead

L R Hieber

Rebecca Birch

Shane Halbach

Stone Showers

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 #9 includes 10 short stories and one graphic story: "Thomas Lynne" - Jordan Taylor "When Angels Wear Butterfly Wings" - Stone Showers "Sea Found" - L R Hieber "Fountain" - Lynda Clark "Beneath the Raven's Wing" - Rebecca Birch "Exit Strategy" - Shane Halbach "Where the Millennials Went" - Zach Lisabeth "Scents of Life" - Robert Lowell Russell "The Parting Gift" - Hall Jameson "Shamrock - Part 4 - Hero's Scream" - Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez In the non-fiction section, this issue features: Interview with Author Michael R. Underwood Interview with Author L R Hieber Artist Spotlight: Jessica TC Lee Science Corner: Black Holes and Academic Walls Book Review: Half a War (Joe Abercrombie) Book Review: Updraft (Fran Wilde) Movie Review: Pay The Ghost (Uli Edel) 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 #9

From award-winning author Lynda Clark come sixteen engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, fantasy and speculative fiction, all of them in Clark’s darkly humorous style. In ‘Ghillie’s Mum’, shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form, or lose her son. In ‘Total Transparency’, the protagonist is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In ‘Blanks’, people are paying to create clones of themselves so they will never die. And in ‘Dreaming in Quantum’, there’s a murder to be solved which echoes through dimensions only accessible in dreams.

Dreaming in Quantum (and Other Stories)

From award-winning author Lynda Clark come 16 engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, fantasy and speculative fiction, all of them in Clark's darkly humorous style. In "Ghillie's Mum," shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form, or lose her son. In "Total Transparency," the protagonist is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In "Blanks," people are paying to create clones of themselves so they will never die. And in "Dreaming in Quantum," there's a murder to be solved which echoes through dimensions only accessible in dreams.

Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories

Lucy Caldwell

Jo Lloyd

Tamsin Grey

Jacqueline Crooks

A young boy takes delight in his mother’s ability to shapeshift from one animal to another, only realising how odd she is when it comes to parents’ evening . . . The values of a small farming village are challenged by talk of a well-heeled community living on the other side of the lake that only one person can see . . . A writer researching the life of a 19th century child custody reformer discovers all too many parallels between that century and ours . . . The stories shortlisted for the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University variously explore the sanctity of the home and family, and the instinct to defend what’s closest to us. Against a backdrop of danger or division, characters sometimes struggle – like the 15-year-old charged with looking after her siblings whilst her mother works through the night – and sometimes succumb – like the young woman who allows herself to be manipulated by an older, richer man. But in each case, these stories demonstrate what Nikki Bedi argues in her introduction: short stories are not a warm-up act, they’re the main event.

The BBC National Short Story Award 2019

Lynda Clark

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