Pulp Literature Autumn 2022: Issue 36

In This Issue

Under the wise and watchful gaze of ‘The Butterfly Witch’ by Melissa Mary Duncan, this issue promises that there are at least two sides to every story.

Siblings work through past hurts and begin new journeys in both ‘Old Gifts’ by feature author James Sallis and ‘Can-on-a-String’ by Alex Kitt. Meanwhile, zombies do double duty, bringing a second life to the real-estate market in ‘Ambience’ by Jason P Burnham while offering a message to the living in ‘Caught Dead’ by Shawn L Bird.

We navigate new lands with Pete Barnstrom in ‘Oeufs Dangereux’ and Cheryl Skory Suma in ‘Adrift off the Shore of Alzheimer Island’. And Anna Zumbro in ‘The Dump ’Em Dog’ and Mikael Lopez and Enrico Orlandi in ‘Forgive My Delay’ remind us that, no matter the world in which we live, breaking up is hard to do.

Next, triple your literary delight with historical fiction: ‘The Shepherdess: Grandmère Paris’ by JM Landels, ‘Pretty Lies: I Can See for Miles’ by Mel Anastasiou, and ‘Once Upon a Time in Camelot’ by GD Litke.

And three’s the charm for poetry too, with our Magpie Award winners Cara Waterfall’s ‘griefbody’ and ‘Harvest’ and Kevin Spenst’s ‘BigGermanDialectWordClankinglyInsertedHere!’.

Jim's books include the six volumes of the Lew Griffin cycle, a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin, a landmark biography of writer Chester Himes, five collections of poetry, and the source novel for the Cannes-winning film Drive. We were thrilled to receive this superhero story from the renowned crime writer

Mel Anastasiou is a novel acquisitions and story editor with Pulp Literature Press, and she co-founded Pulp Literature magazine in 2013. Mel helps writers develop through her structural editing, her popular 'Writing Muse' Twitter feed, and two workbooks, The Writer's Boon Companion: Thirty Days Towards an Extraordinary Manuscript and The Writer's Friend and Confidante: Thirty Days of Narrative Achievement.

JM Landels is torn between travelling the world to teach writing and swordfighting, and never leaving her idyllic farm in Langley, BC. Her debut series, fantasy bestseller Allaigna's Song: Overture, and the sequels, Aria and Chorale, are available from Pulp Literature Press and Amazon. You can follow her adventures with pen and sword at jmlandels.stiffbunnies.com