Content Warnings: Winter Solstice 2023

~ Poetry ~
Aubade with Carnivores by Nnadi Samuel [cannibalism, blood, gore]
Bealltuinn by Clay Franklin Johnson
Black Forest Nocturne by Matt Schumacher [references to drowning]
Blue-beard’s Collective by Deborah Sage [misogyny, murder]
The Curious Incident of the Black Dog of the Night by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Death Comes Calling by Colleen Anderson
The Dréag by Adam Bolivar
The Ghoul by Scott J. Couturier [gore, body horror]
hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice by Ennis Rook Bashe [mental health, medical trauma]
Last Gasp by Gerri Leen [ecological destruction, extinction]
Mother of Night by Susan Bennett
Mummy’s Curse by Hayley Arrington
Never Leave the Path by Kyla Lee Ward [drowning]
Notes On a Nightmare by Alexander Etheridge [ecological destruction]
Question of Corvid and Chiropteran Society by Terry Trowbridge
Sins of the Father by Samantha Casey [torture, body horror]
The Stench That Befouls the Night by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa [gore, body horror]
Tide Mouse by Amelia Gorman
Without Coin by Ashley Dioses

~ Fiction and Prose Poetry ~
Choosing Day by Danielle Davis [human sacrifice, harm to children]
Cuckoo’s Egg Chocolate Cupcakes by Mary Kuna [mental health, harm to children]
The Guardian by Katherine PF Holmes [violent death, horrific afterlife, torture]
I, Moros by Maxwell I. Gold
Imperiatrix Abyssa, or Queen of the Damned; From the Misadventures of Simon Magus Iscariot by Edward St. Boniface
Jenny’s Song by Simon Bleaken [attempted self-harm, near drowning]
Last Rose for Breanna by Ray Van Horn Jr. [political and religious oppression, religiously-motivated murder, immolation]
Lost in the Desert by Daniel Stride [violent death, gore]
Making Sense of Merlyn by Peller G. Sauvage
Melkart and the Daimon’s Bride by Mark Mellon [references to sexual assault, violent death, and human sacrifice]
Rabbit Moon by Sarah Walker
Rattus by TJ O’Hare [body horror, gore]
Sebastian Smirch’s Own Double Entry by Tim Newton Anderson
Tony and Tian’s Wedding by Mord McGhee [violent death, gore]

~ Interviews ~
Max Ingram, author of Traveler’s Rede: Poetry From Hávamál
Kele Lampe, author of the Caitlin Ross series

~ Reviews ~
The Alvin Goodfellow Case Files by Leah Cutter (reviewed by Rebecca Buchanan)
Amazon’s Pledge by Sara Hawke (reviewed by Rebecca Buchanan)
The Valkyries’ Loom by Michele Haveur Smith (reviewed by Erin Lale)

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