Every place has its unique sensibility; a flavour that makes it special. Whether one is going somewhere new or discovering the secrets that make the familiar seem foreign, where you are matters as much as when you’re there. The stories in this fifth collection from Plan B Magazine occur at the intersection of the familiar and the strange, the rise of the unexpected and the twist in the road. Let’s take a journey to the unknown. Table of Contents: "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck "Broad Daylight" by Eve Fisher "This Land of the Strange" by Math Bird "Please Wait" by Robert Dawson "Fill In The Blanks" by Stephen D. Rogers "The Double Iron Cross" by William E. Wallace "Red Bait" by Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg "Broken Hearts" by Laird Long "Intimate Knowledge" by Suzanne Baginskie "The Asshat Fund" by Todd Morr "Mysterious Private Investigations" by Peter DiChellis "Coffee and Killings" by Simon Maltman "The Good Neighbor" by Lawrence Buentello
In these 21 science fiction and fantasy stories you'll find true love, supernatural intrigue, the end of the world, and even the face of God—as seen through the highly irreverent mind of Lawrence Buentello.From a spiritually bankrupt consumer's pursuit of a personal god in "A Miracle for Every Occasion", to one man's efforts to become a pioneer in an environmentally devastated world in "The Gates of the Sun", Buentello's ingenious fiction will keep you laughing at the wonderful absurdity of the human condition.
A future when Earth is invaded by an alien species wielding the ultimate weapon: love... a society where the ugliness of life is transformed by a miraculous technology... and a time when the potential of the universe is captured in a cube that can be held in the palm of your hand—Lawrence Buentello presents 18 ingenious stories of speculative fiction, including the novella “Sleeping Dragon” in its first world publication.
A tree that holds the souls of the dead…and the damned—a summoning at the edge of the world that threatens to strip away mankind's magic forever—a ghostly horse that promises a peace from beyond the grave—and a stone unicorn that becomes the prize in a war between two mages—John & Lawrence Buentello present these and other stories of wizards, warriors, and dragons conjured from the realms of high fantasy. From a host of demons that prove no match for the unshakable faith of a novice—to a sympathetic witch deceived into divining the heart of a murderer, here are 17 stories guaranteed to amaze, mystify, and enchant.
In Earth's far future a struggle for dominance has begun between powerful feudal lords and a sect of ancient dreamers - The Scholar Jo Odin has lived a nomadic life since his father's murder, earning his keep by modifying the old technology for city leaders through an innate ability he doesn't completely understand. But a chance meeting with a beautiful stranger ignites a series of adventures that soon reveals his father's secret past and exposes the true purpose of his own inexplicable talents. But before Odin can solve the mysteries of the past and ensure the future of humanity, he must first survive assassins, genetic monsters, and a perilous journey across the enigmatic Bridge of a Thousand Leagues.
The Mythic Circle is the creative writing journal of The Mythopoeic Society and publishes fiction, poetry, and images created in the tradition of fantasy literature established by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and the Inklings. As of 2020, the editors are Victoria Gaydosik (general manager and fiction) and Nolan Meditz (poetry). The Society has published creative writing since 1971; The Mythic Circle has been published since 1987. The journal is currently published on an annual basis and appears in time for the Mythopoeic Society Convention each August. Aspiring contributors for the next issue are invited to submit completed short fiction, poetry, or images at mythiccircle@mythsoc.org. The current issue for 2020, #42, includes stories featuring sea-maidens ("Falling for a Cornish Maid," by Ella Wallsworth-Bell), dragons ("The Dreaded Tome of Urawn," by Lee Clark Zumpe), re-envisionings of the Trojan War ("Iphegenia," by Ama Kirchner, and "Equuleus of Troy," by DC Mallery), a troll and a king ("Troll," by Kevan Kenneth Bowkett), retribution for betrayed love-vows ("Betrothal," by Lawrence Buentello), a mythical forest refuge ("The Tree That Stood Forever," by Mary Alice Dixon), a heroic adventure ("Epic," by David Sparenberg), and a supernatural meeting between C. S. Lewis and Mark Twain ("Working Title," by S. Dorman). The issue also includes a dramatized conversation between Arthur and Guinevere ("Six Years After the Wedding," by Joe R. Christopher), and poems in a mythic vein by Holly Day, David Sparenberg, Meg Moseman, and Mack W. Mani. The issue's art works are by Athalie Genesis, Meg Moseman, Janet Brennan Croft, Jillian Drinnon, and Kialey Varaksin. Audio files of the stories and poems in Issue #42 will be available at https: //dc.swosu.edu/mcircle/ after August 1, 2021.
The hidden meaning of our lives often lies buried in circumstances that we fail to examine in our minds and in our hearts. "Ghosts of the American Dream" explores this preternatural sense in 19 short stories of people in the midst of the darkest revelations of their own American dreams. From the lyrical sadness of "Sky" to the nightmarish violence of "The Boxer," Buentello's poetic realism defines the ways in which the promise of life in America often becomes compromised by the strange and unforeseen influences of an unpredictable culture.
In this issue of The Dark City a hippie art dealer squeals on his drug dealer nemesis, while an upscale drug user picks on the homeless addicts in his neighborhood. Elsewhere in the city a kid nick-named Rathead is picked on by his peers, as a young man fighting demons discovers a new use for therapy. And finally, a phony big game hunter gets something of a comeuppance. Welcome to the darker side of reality. Welcome to the dark city..
Every place has its unique sensibility; a flavour that makes it special. Whether one is going somewhere new or discovering the secrets that make the familiar seem foreign, where you are matters as much as when you’re there. The stories in this fifth collection from Plan B Magazine occur at the intersection of the familiar and the strange, the rise of the unexpected and the twist in the road. Let’s take a journey to the unknown. Table of Contents: "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck "Broad Daylight" by Eve Fisher "This Land of the Strange" by Math Bird "Please Wait" by Robert Dawson "Fill In The Blanks" by Stephen D. Rogers "The Double Iron Cross" by William E. Wallace "Red Bait" by Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg "Broken Hearts" by Laird Long "Intimate Knowledge" by Suzanne Baginskie "The Asshat Fund" by Todd Morr "Mysterious Private Investigations" by Peter DiChellis "Coffee and Killings" by Simon Maltman "The Good Neighbor" by Lawrence Buentello
What might the deindustrial future bring? Cut off inhabitants in a flooded California face a furious storm; the residents of an island of refuge must determine the fate of unnerving visitors; a desolate landscape is visited by a series of mysterious and haunting musical notes; and one final, critical act determines the outcome of a new Civil War. These possibilities and more await in the pages within, weaving tales of the future that refuse to bow to the assumptions of our times and instead ask us to imagine what might come from the choices we face, and in what ways we might yet forge futures of meaning in the hard times ahead.
Metaphysics is a poetic invitation to the reader to find an individual reality in the complex symbols of human history. Whether these symbols originate in art, science, religion, or philosophy the meaning we take from them contributes to our creation of the world, one moment, one thought, one person at a time.
“Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes.” —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly Review The idea of “the great American novel” continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself. The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four “scripts” for G.A.N. candidates and their themes, illustrated by such titles as The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Beloved, Moby-Dick, and Gravity’s Rainbow—works dwelling on topics from self-invention to the promise and pitfalls of democracy. The canvas of the great American novel is in constant motion, reflecting revolutions in fictional fashion, the changing face of authorship, and the inseparability of high culture from popular. As Buell reveals, the elusive G.A.N. showcases the myth of the United States as a nation perpetually under construction. “Engaging and provocative . . . ultimately affirms the importance of literature to a nation’s sense of itself.” —Sarah Graham, Times Literary Supplement “Rich in critical insight . . . Buell wonders if the GAN isn’t stirring again in surprising new developments in science fiction. An impressively ambitious literary survey.” —Booklist (starred review)
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