Outposts of Beyond

My copy of Outposts of Beyond arrived, along with $2, for my reprint of Celestial Mysteries which appears in this latest issue.

Outposts of Beyond

January 2017

Short Stories

Pale Remnant by Keith Soares

Planetside and Falling by Karen Otto

Thou by Tyree Campbell

Dole in Astolat by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt

The Keen by John Buentello and Lawrence Buentello

In the Colony of the Cohiburri the Hybrid is Queen by Maureen Bowden

The Black Eyes of Ulspruth-Dimot by Lee Clark Zumpe

Flash Fiction

Escape Pod by Adele Gardner

Poetry

What People Were They Here? by David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans

Celestial Mysteries by Ashley Dioses

Once, 90 Degrees from the Sun by Will H. Blackwell Jr.

Portrait of the Mad Scientist’s Wife by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Features

Teleportation by Robert E. Porter

The Poet As Prophet by Robert E. Porter

Illustrations

Cover- Fertility Temple Offerings by Mitchell Davidson Bentley

Poetry Acceptances

My poems, Sephora and Narda the Czarina, have been accepted for Weirdbook Magazine #34!!  Sephora is based off the character from Clark Ashton Smith's story The Enchantress of Sylaire, and Narda the Czarina, is based off of the character from Leopo Sacher Masoch's novella, The Black Czarina.  Also, my poem Panic, has been accepted for Xnoybis Issue 3: In Praise of Pan by Dunhams Manor Press.

(Art by David Ho; this is Sephora, I'm guessing.)

  

Feverish Fiction #1 by Sleazy Viking Press

I just received my contributor copy of Feverish Fiction #1 by Sleazy Viking Press.  My poem, Sea Witch's Grotto, appears inside, accompanied by artwork.  This is an awesome looking journal with colored interior illustrations which I'm a sucker for.  Who doesn't like colored art??

* 24 pages in full color printed on rustic 140g cyclus paper
* hand-numbered, limited to 50 copies
* Original previously unpublished flash fiction stories
* Original previously unpublished poetry
* Original artwork
* Stories by Justin A Mank, Alex S. Johnson, Konstantine Paradias, Patrick Winters
*Poetry by Ashley Dioses, K.A. Opperman
*Art by Paul Boswell

Devolution Z January 2017: The Horror Magazine Volume 16

Man, I've been trying to get into Devolution Z for what seems like forever.  They just look so cool!  And finally, I got a poem accepted!  My poem, Nadia, appears in this and is the first sonnet of an ongoing vampire themed mini-sonnet cycle I am writing.  I have never written a sonnet cycle before and thought I'd try my hand at it.  My goal was 10, and then 5.  I originally wrote 4.  The first 4 will appear in Diary of a Sorceress and a 5th one that I wrote recently will go into my next collection.

POETRY

Dead Bread—Ramona Thompson

Nadia—Ashley Dioses

SHORT STORIES

The Breed: Last Watch—Daniel Soule

With the Taste of Paris on My Tongue—Tom Howard

Justice—Vonnie Winslow Crist

Eyes Like a Butterfly—Jason Lairamore

Sons of the Spider—Toni Johnson

Rolling Zombie Bones—Guy Stewart & Ryan VanAlstine

In Tall Grass—Jeremy Mac

Deliver Me—E. M. Sole

You Can Never Go Home Again—Lena Ng

Incident Zero—Ryan Neil Falcone

Homo Aquaticus—Chance Barton

INTERNAL ARTWORK

Stuart McMillan

Terry Sheppard

2016 Rhysling Awards Eligibility

2016 was a good publishing year.  Here is a list of eligible poems and their links.  If you are a member of the SFPA, the link to nominate poems for the 2016 Rhysling Awards is here.  I have sent a portfolio with these poems to the SFPA and they should appear in the 2017 Candidates page soon, so you can read them all.

• Goetia (poetry)-  Mythopoesis Issue 19 by Eye to the Telescope
• With a Love So Vile (poetry)- Spectral Realms No. 4 by Hippocampus Press
• Illva (poetry)- Spectral Realms No. 4 by Hippocampus Press
• Witch Lord of the Hunt (poetry)- Spring Equinox 2016 Issue by Eternal Haunted Summer
• Labyrinthine King (poetry)- 47 – 16 : Short Fiction & Poetry Inspired by David Bowie by Penny Dreadful Publications
• The Easter Lily (poetry)- Cyäegha Number 16 Summer 2016
• The Necro-Conjuring Sorceress (poetry)- Weirdbook Issue #32 by Wildside Press
• The Glass Vial (poetry)- The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Issue One
• My Corpse, My Groom (poetry)- The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Issue One
• Ghoul Mistress (poetry)- HWA Poetry Showcase 2016
• Diary of a Sorceress (poetry)- Skelos - The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Issue One by Skelos Press
• Dark Valentine (poetry)-  The Literary Hatchet #15 by PearTree Press
• The Rotting Goddess (poetry)- The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Issue Two
• Dark Poet of My Heart (poetry)- Spectral Realms No. 5 by Hippocampus Press
• Fallen Atlantis (poetry)- Spectral Realms No. 5 by Hippocampus Press
• Ever Fair (poetry)- Spectral Realms No. 5 by Hippocampus Press
• Scarlet Autumn Aurora (poetry)- Ravenwood Quarterly Issue 2
• Bathory in Red (poetry)- Weirdbook Issue #33 by Wildside Press
• Blood Siren's Alcove (poetry)- Weirdbook Issue #33 by Wildside Press
• Dark Valentine II. (poetry)- The Literary Hatchet #16 by PearTree Press
• Nitokris (poetry)- Weird Fiction Review #7 by Centipede Press
• Venus (poetry)- Winter Solstice 2016 Issue by Eternal Haunted Summer
• Sea Witch's Grotto (poetry)- Feverish Fiction Issue 1 by Sleazy Viking Press