Many thanks to R. Graeme Cameron at Amazing Stories for the excellent review of On Spec Issue #125.
On Spec Issue #125 Reviewed
Stories
“Cosmo and Pierogi”
I am so honoured to have my story, “Cosmo and Pierogi,” included in Prism Review Issue #25.
Carolyn Watson’s Hitchcockian “Hag”
Cover image, “Blue Boat” by Phillip Ziegler
The MacGuffin is a national literary magazine published by Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan.
I am proud they have included my story, “Hag,” in their Winter 2023 issue.
Their covers are always beautiful and this issue’s image is one of my favourites.
https://www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/
Product Description
Lynne Thompson’s Poet Hunt 27 selections are featured in vol. 38.3. Following Ms. Thompson’s contest commentary are the poems and poets themselves: Grand Prize Winner Judy Brackett Crowe and Honorable Mentions Abby Caplin and Sam Ferrante. Leaving Poet Hunt 27 behind, we look ahead to 2023’s Poet Hunt 28, guest judged by Barbara Crooker, with a five-poem spread from the judge-to-be. We round out this issue with an eclectic collection of prose: from Carolyn Watson’s Hitchcockian “Hag,” to Scott Ragland’s postmodern World War II short “Wings,” to Carolyn Highland’s “Echoes,” and Gigi Cheng’s masterful essay “The difference between Chinese and English.”
Spring
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
‘Winter is dead.’”
~ A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
Stories are for eternity
“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember but the story.”
~ Tim O’Brien (b. October 1, 1946), The Things They Carried
February
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
~ Graham Greene (b. 2 October 1904 – d. 3 April 1991), The End of the Affair
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