Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3
    Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3
    Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3
    Ebook80 pages1 hour

    Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3

    By Strangelet Press

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Issue 1.3, a fully illustrated issue of Strangelet, with cover and illustrations by artist Weston Thompson.

    "Rampion" by Anita Felicelli
    A desire seeded with grief can lead to unexpected and terrible places.

    "Running With" by Peter Medeiros
    Old friends come together again for an old Earth tradition, using bulls from a distant world. What can go wrong?

    "The Ragabash Foxtrot, Part 2" by Dorian Graves
    Pick up where our detective left off in Issue 1.2 and dive deeper into a den of myth and noir.

    Plus, poetry from Stephen Toutonghi about visitors from other worlds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStrangelet Press
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781310097157
    Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3
    Author

    Strangelet Press

    Strangelet is a journal of speculative fiction that publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic stories/comics, and artwork six times a year with an anthology at the end of each year. We showcase the intersection where genre and literature collide. We want works to reveal compelling, universal truths that speak to us—from starship computers, from dragons’ mouths, and from everyday worlds tinged with miracles. Genres Strangelet primarily publishes short fiction but we also want exceptional artwork, essays, graphic stories, poetry, and reviews that explore the same space. We are looking for works of science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, and anything else that takes the reader to new worlds (or a shadowy corner of ours). Visit our submissions page for more information if you would like to be included in the journal. Visit our store and check out our subscription rates if you would like to purchase an issue. Inspirations Our inspirations include authors and artists like Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Emily Carroll, Madeleine L’Engle, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rod Serling, and Ralph Steadman, who have broken the bounds of genre and literature (and even form) to keep us transfixed. To find out current news about submissions, upcoming issues, or to see what’s inspiring us right now, sign up for our newsletter, follow us at Twitter, Facebook, and our Goodreads page, or use the contact info below.

    Read more from Strangelet Press

    Related to Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Merry Christmas: A Reading Of Holiday Classics By Monitor Staff (audio)

      Dec 17, 2019

      A dive into venerable old writings can add to the warmth of the holiday hearth. Even more so when they’re read aloud.

      12 min read

    • Article

      Ready, Set, Let go!

      May 15, 2019

      Ready, Set, Let go!
      11 min read

    • Article

      Poetry

      Jun 1, 2021

      Poetry
      3 min read

    • Article

      There’s No Place Like Home: An Artist Reconnects to the Whispers of Her Past

      Apr 7, 2023

      Estimated reading time: 13 minutes — I would be remiss in telling you how two suburbanites found home at our farm, ‘Oakhaven’, without first sharing our motives. There were a few. We had been watching the steady decline of the small towns we love fo

      8 min read

    • Article

      Finding Home

      Jul 5, 2022

      Finding Home
      4 min read

    • Article

      Your Page

      Apr 27, 2022

      Jetting my way back through the clouds to coastal Victoria from Queensland following my father’s funeral, I opened the March edition of Country Style and took a deep breath. After a week of family tension and grief, ‘The Art Issue’, always a personal

      5 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 4, 2018

      I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Fred Allen I have always wondered, in reading travels, at the childish joy travellers felt at meeting people they knew, and their sense of loneliness when they did not, in

      4 min read

    • Article

      Lit Hub Recommends

      Sep 21, 2018

      Lit Hub Recommends
      4 min read

    • Article

      Staff Picks: Detritus, Dreamin’, Dinos

      Jul 14, 2017

      From Paleoart.   First published in 1966, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan, is still the standard biography of our most enduringly funny writer—or, at least, the earliest writer who makes me actually laugh. I avoided it till now because I

      5 min read

    • Article

      TWO ESSAYS from FINGER EXERCISES FOR POETS

      Nov 1, 2022

      Russian Formalists have a word, “ostranenie,” which means constantly attempting to discover new ways of looking at everyday things. There are almost always two realities rubbing up against one another in every poem, whether they are specified or not,

      10 min read

    • Article

      A Garden In The Desert

      Sep 20, 2021

      A Garden In The Desert
      10 min read

    • Article

      How It All Began

      Feb 5, 2020

      How It All Began
      8 min read

    • Article

      As the World Collapses

      Jul 27, 2017

      As the World Collapses
      7 min read

    • Article

      ‘A Children’s Bible’: Featured Fiction from Lydia Millet

      May 12, 2020

      "My phone had ceased to interest me since the news started repeating, bringing a wash of grimness whenever I looked. I solved the problem by ignoring it." The post ‘A Children’s Bible’: Featured Fiction from Lydia Millet appeared first on The Million

      4 min read

    • Article

      Four Of A Kind

      May 3, 2023

      Four Of A Kind
      4 min read

    • Article

      Beasts Of The Fields

      Feb 19, 2020

      Family heartache on the northern New York border, and the creatures that bore witness to it.

      12 min read

    • Article

      Earthrise

      Oct 29, 2018

      Earthrise
      4 min read

    • Article

      On The Shelves

      Aug 5, 2018

      On The Shelves
      3 min read

    • Article

      Summer Beach Reads

      Jan 10, 2021

      Summer Beach Reads
      7 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Mar 4, 2024

      To Err Is Human; to Forgive, Supine —S. J. Perelman, Baby, It’s Cold Inside, 1970 You must know the bees have come early this year too: I see them visit aster, sweet Williams, bleeding hearts, and azalea blossoms hardy enough to not have crisped with

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 3 - Strangelet Press

      Visit our store for anthologies, classics, and print issues at

      http://strangeletjournal.com/read

      Thank you for supporting Strangelet Press and purchasing this issue of Strangelet!

      Sign up for our newsletter and receive special offers, access to free content, and information on the latest new releases!

      Click to sign up for our Newsletter

      or visit us online to sign up at

      http://strangeletjournal.com

      Volume 1, Issue 3 of Strangelet is a production of

      Strangelet Press

      (617) 870-4184

      strangeletjournal.com

      contact@strangeletjournal.com

      Strangelet is a new journal accepting speculative artwork, fiction, graphic stories/comics, nonfiction, and poetry. Strangelet is published 6 times a year.

      We want to showcase works where genre and literature collide. We want pieces that situate the gravity of living amid the high energy of imagination to find compelling, beautiful, universal truths that speak to us—whether from starships, from dragons’ mouths, or from an everyday world tinged with miracles.

      Visit strangeletjournal.com/subscribe to subscribe to Strangelet!

      Submissions: We accept submissions year-round. We also accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your submission has been accepted elsewhere.

      Published works appear in both the print and ebook editions of Strangelet. We may occasionally publish excerpts from accepted and/or published pieces on our website and social media platforms.

      Our goal is to notify all submitters of acceptance or non-acceptance within four months of submission. We look forward to reading your work!

      For more information, visit strangeletjournal.com/submit or go here.

      Book design and production by Franco A. Alvarado and Chandra Asar

      Ebook edition by Franco A. Alvarado

      Cover art is Octopod © Weston Thompson

      Illustrations by Weston Thompson

      © 2015 by Strangelet Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except in the case of brief quotations within critical articles and reviews. Rights revert to authors and artists upon publication.

      Strangelet

      Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2015

      Executive Editor

      Casey Brown

      Managing Editor, Business Manager, Copyeditor

      Leah Alaani

      Production Editor, Designer, Copy Chief, Ebook Developer

      Franco A. Alvarado

      Creative Director, Designer, Proofreader

      Chandra Asar

      Content Manager, Web Editor, Copyeditor, Proofreader

      Andy Dost

      Media Director, Proofreader

      Tami Marie Lawless

      Advisory Editors

      Andy Dost, Timothy Ellison, Aaron Krol

      Design Intern

      Weston Thompson

      Readers

      Chelsea Cohen, Konstantine Dzugan, Rebecca Jones, Lisa Markley, Kurt Newton, Gabrielle Roman, Mikaela von Kursell

      Fiction

      Rampion by Anita Felicelli

      Running With by Peter Medeiros

      Serial Fiction

      The Ragabash Foxtrot, Part 2 by Dorian Graves

      Poetry

      Houses in Space by Steve Toutonghi

      visitors by Steve Toutonghi

      Illustrator Weston Thompson

      Anita Felicelli

      Rampion

      We traveled to Paris armed with foolproof plans of relaxation. It was early spring and our yearlong efforts to get pregnant had failed. The fertility clinic tested Connall and the problem wasn’t his sperm, so that left me to measure my basal temperature, take pills, inject myself, explore homeopathic cures. Relax, the doctors said. Relax, my acupuncturist said. You’re wound too tight. I had always been tense, but I was pretty sure the problem was my eggs, or the lack of them, not the whorled knots in my shoulders. Nonetheless I rented us a Parisian apartment in the Latin Quarter, hopeful that the city of light and love would work its magic.

      We decided to spend our first afternoon at the Pompidou. The trees should be just starting to turn, Connall said. As a landscape architect, he was always attuned to what was growing, even in the heart of a city. Maybe we’ll catch some of the blossoms on our walk.

      At a corner market, I bought a baguette and a round of chevre, which Connall stored in his backpack. I tried not to bring it up, but after the third perambulator, I couldn’t contain myself. Do you think it will work? I asked.

      What? He was looking down at his city map and I took his arm to keep him from bumping into other pedestrians.

      The IVF.

      Let’s not think about that. We’re not there yet, he said. Let’s just enjoy Paris.

      I would so much like to have a tiny child.

      Me, too, but let’s be patient.

      We arrived at the Pompidou, its splendor made up of hard metal bars and cold rainbow pipes and phallic glass tunnels in the midst of the elegant architecture of Paris. Connall insisted on seeing the entirety of the museum, for fear we would never be here again, so for what seemed like hours, I stood and stared at Yayoi Kusama’s obsessive dot works. So many dots, an ocean of dots, and a quiet chamber of mirrors and bliss that was teeming with candy-colored LED lights and reflections of them and reflections of reflections—on and on, through time forever.

      We emerged from that metal and glass behemoth into what we thought would be the vast light of that day, but the buttery light had been replaced with silver clouds and a fierce, howling wind. I turned on my phone and tried to provoke Connall by videotaping him. You like it, don’t you, I said gesturing at the Pompidou.

      It’s fantastic.

      It’s a monstrosity.

      He put up his hand, so I spun around to find another subject through the lens. Far across the plaza by large white tubular structures, a group of vagrants played music on trashcan lids and drums. Their front woman, desiccated with thick platinum gold hair

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1