You guys have been quiet lately.  How about a preview of the October issue to liven things up?  It will be published via Kindle and Nook on the 14th (Friday), and published on this website on the 17th (Monday).  I’m really excited about the stories in this issue, and I think you will be, too.  Here’s the preview:

Sky Full of Fire, by Corinna Sara Bechko: Worse than seeing the shadow person is what happens at night now. Something is walking. I don’t know what it is, and don’t want to know. But something, or somethings are abroad. They cast no shadow even when the moon is up. I hear them though. Sometimes there’s a low thumping, like a distant steam piston. Sometimes there’s a sort of clacking, like a train going over the trestles of a bridge…

The Lord of Endings, by John R. Fultz: The full moon floated above like a golden sphere, obscured by vapors of green and violet and scarlet, the shifting auroras of an unearthly sky. Alien constellations glittered, and a stray comet passed across the inky vault, a streak of burning sapphire…

Loaners, by Aaron Polson: Drawings and handwritten equations had been tacked, taped, or stapled to almost every inch of available wall space, along with several articles which looked like they’d been clipped from newspapers or printed from the internet. The walls were covered, except a large mirror next to the computer. For a moment, and perhaps her eyes played a trick, the mirror seemed to reflect another, almost twin mirror which must have been leaning against a half wall which divided the room…

The Prophecy of Zarah, by Jenne Kaivo: It should be noted that the translators make the ridiculous assertion that more writing appeared from the start to the completion of their reconstruction of this text, and indeed that vague impressions of letters have already formed below the last sentence, which now ends at “the”. This should be taken as a highly unprofessional attempt at explaining away the slow process of translation. The grisly suicides of, as of this writing, two of the original translation team, should likewise be ignored…

And of course, the bonus issue 7 story that I’ve already published: The Stranger From Out of Town, by John Prescott.  Read it now!