Pulp Fiction
Steve Jensen’s short story The Sinner’s Release will feature in Pulp Metal Magazine shortly:
“Yes, well, I must admit that my journey here was not a pleasant one – and I did run. But who could blame me? The very forest came to life at the command of the trickster, the Strigoi! A lean, wild-eyed hound of Hell chased me – it became a ravenous wolf; the ravens called my name, mocked my cowardice. And behind me was the vampire himself – never seen, never heard but at one with the wind as it made me stagger and fall…”
Visit Pulp Metal Magazine here.
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Introducing Today’s Special Guest
Paul D. Brazill features in the first of an occasional series of guest blogs today.
Paul’s excellent flash fiction piece, The Night Shift, can be read here.
‘Almost imperceptibly, winter had crept up and smothered the days with darkness, flushing Victor’s memories – good, bad and, yes, ugly – to the forefront of his mind. Night after sleepless night his anger brewed and bubbled to boiling point…’
Visit Paul’s website here.
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Frank & Steve on the Guestlist
Frank Duffy’s excellent guest blog – subject: football – is now available to read at Paul D. Brazill’s superb website:
‘…And this is where I have inadvertently shot myself in the proverbial foot so many times in the past. Especially here in Poland. Mention to anyone that I come from near Liverpool, and you can practically guarantee that their response will consist of two words: Jerzy Dudek. They will say these two words with such hushed reverence that I’ve often wondered whether these sanctified words are endowed with possible magical properties…such as ‘Open Sesame’, or ‘make mine a double scotch on the rocks’.’
Steve’s guest spot, namely his essay on Orson Welles, is also available to read now:
‘The truth is, lies have a glamour with which veracity cannot compete; why else our fascination for fiction? Even the greatest, most eventful lives are full of mundane moments, discord, the absence of that ‘epic grandeur’ for which Scott Fitzgerald yearned…’
Visit Paul’s blog here.
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Frank Duffy in TBG
Frank Duffy will be featured in Showcase, The Black Glove magazine’s new writing talent spot, in December. The feature will include an interview, plus excerpts from Frank’s short fiction.
Visit The Black Glove here.
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Frank Duffy featured in Estronomicon
The Journal is delighted to announce that Frank Duffy’s short fiction piece, False Pilgrim, is now featured in the Screaming Dream Press magazine Estronomicon.
Quote:
A figure began to materialize; slight and without substance it seemed, a phantom composed only of air and light, its limbs like a quick sketch spread out around it in supplication, as if it were hovering off the ground and drifting towards him through the gap in the trees…
Read Frank’s story in Estronomicon here.
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The Treachery of Images
Steve Jensen’s short story The Treachery of Images is now available to read at the Gloom Cupboard:
Quote:
I had been looking for someone to change my mind, but instead, I found Aislin.
Fortune and fate had nothing to do with our meeting, I see that now, though at the time
I came to believe in destiny, along with other articles of consolation. One can laugh at the myths we weave around those we love, and who love us in return…We can afford to laugh now, because we are older, wiser and have long spent the gold of our youth. It’s the only currency, the only certain truth we have left; bittersweet, inviolable experience.
Visit The Gloom Cupboard here.
Art: The Mirror of Venus by Edward Burne-Jones
