Sarah Avery

Let a Little Magic into Your Life In Tales from Rugosa Coven, catch a glimpse of a New Jersey even weirder than the one you think you know, as a covenful of very modern Wiccans wrestle challenges both supernatural and mundane-and, occasionally, each other. The personal injury attorney who chose kitchen-witchery over his family's five-generation lineage of old school ceremonial magic would like to miss his dead parents, only now that they're dead they won't leave him alone. The professional fortuneteller stands out at forty paces, with her profusion of silver amulets glittering over her Goth wardrobe, but nobody has guessed her secret sorrow, especially not the covenmates who see her as their wacky comic relief. And the resident skeptic, a reluctant Pagan if ever there was one, will have to eat her words if her coven sister's new boyfriend really does turn out to be from Atlantis. The Jersey Shore's half-hidden community of Witches, Druids, and latter-day Vikings must circle together against all challenges. It's a good thing they're as resilient as the wild rugosa roses that hold together the dunes. Praise for The Rugosa Coven Stories I absolutely love Tales from Rugosa Coven! It reminds me of the best occult fiction, but with better plots and a New Jersey I recognize. I can't wait for more! -Nina Harper, author of Succubus in the City When I read Closing Arguments a few months ago, I was left wanting more. With Sarah Avery's follow-up to that novella, Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply, I was left salivating. -Jeremy Bredeson, Facing North Reviews

Tales From Rugosa Coven

Charles Payseur

Laurie Tom

Emily B. Cataneo

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.

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