Pulp Literature Winter 2024: Issue 41

In This Issue

Join us as we raise a glass to the New Year and a new decade with Cheers by cover artist Melissa Mary Duncan.

Ghosts rise from the depths of different pasts to haunt the pages of ‘When Captain Picard Was My Dad’ by feature author Finnian Burnett and ‘The Haunted Ghost’ by JJ Lee.

Family both anchors and unmoors the varied casts of ‘Moon Eater’ by EC Dorgan, ‘Field’s Nocturne No. 10 in E Major’ by Matt Lumbard, and ‘The Golden Bull’ by JM Landels.

Time and space rattle and quake in ‘Nobody Knows It but Me’ by Franco Amati and ‘Separate Worlds’ by Chip Houser. And the shattering continues with new poetry from Aaron Poochigian, DS Maolalai, Purbasha Roy.

But journeys finally find peace in the destination with ‘Get Home Safe’ by Sierra Louie and ‘Stella Ryman and the Labyrinthian Puzzle’ by Mel Anastasiou.

Finnian Burnett holds a doctoral degree in English pedagogy and teaches English online for a US college. Their writing explores intersections of identity - fatness, mental health, disability, queer joy. Finnian was a finalist for the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Their second novella-in-flash, The Price of Cookies, is available from Off Topic Publishing. Finnian lives in BC where they spend their time watching a lot of Star Trek and daydreaming about teleportation.

JM Landels is the author of the bestselling Allaigna's Song trilogy as well as the spy novel The Shepherdess, currently serialized in even-numbered issues of this magazine. 'The Golden Calf', featured in Pulp Literature Issue 39, was a crossover of sorts, set in Allaigna's world of the Ilmar but with The Shepherdess's metier of herding livestock. 'The Golden Bull' finds the same character, nineteen years later, facing a different sort of burden. JM herself stays away from ruminants but does keep a small herd of horses on which she teaches mounted combat at her school, Academie Cavallo, in Langley, BC. You can find @jmlandels on most social media platforms, or at jmlandels.stiffbunnies.com.

Mel Anastasiou writes the Fairmount Manor Mysteries, the Hertfordshire Pub Mysteries, and the Monument Studios Mysteries. Winner of a Literary Titan Gold award and longlisted for the Leacock Medal, Mel is also the author of two illustrated thirty-day workbooks on story structure: the steampunk-themed The Writer's Boon Companion and The Writer's Friend and Confidante. For news on published and upcoming new works, visit her website, melanastasiou.wordpress.com.