Sybil's Garage No. 6The latest issue of the highly acclaimed magazine.
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The city has always been a place of mystery, of magic, and wonder. In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior-women, dead boys, mechanical dogs, escape artists and more. From the dizzying heights of rooftops and spires to the sinister secrets of underpasses and gutters, some of the most talented authors writing today will take you on a trip through the urban fantastic. Edited by Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Secret History of Moscow and the Alchemy of Stone. Twenty-one original stories from Forrest Aguirre, Barth Anderson, Steve Berman, Darin Bradley, Stephanie Campisi, Hal Duncan, Mike Jasper, Vylar Kaftan, Jay Lake, Paul Meloy, Richard Parks, Ben Peek, Cat Rambo, Jenn Reese, David Schwartz, Cat Sparks, Anna Tambour, Mark Teppo, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg van Eekhout, and Kaaron Warren.
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There is a saying in the Talmud that beside every blade of grass is an angel who whispers, “Grow, grow.” Well, those angels must have been screaming at us.
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Here’s what’s going on in the Sybil’s Garage queue as of this morning: We have received 191 stories, 30 poems We have rejected 89 stories, 11 poems Average response time: 7 days for stories, 6 days for poems Writers group tonight for me, so I’m a little behind on my queue, but I hope to catch up in the next day or so.
I believe I was taught grammar in the fourth grade, and I never studied it again until I took an adult education class at the New School a few decades later. It doesn’t surprise me then the findings of this article, in which freshman college students have poor grammar skills because they are simply not being taught the basics. Why has this been happening?* You can’t just blame the glut of media. These kids are in school for six or more hours per day. Reading. Writing. Arithmeticing. It’s difficult for …
I am very excited to announce that Clarkesworld Magazine has just accepted my story “The History Within Us.” I’ve been a huge fan of Clarkesworld since its inception and it’s a big (ok, humongous) honor to appear there. I’ve had my eyes dilated again today at the eye doctor, so I’m not sure if that’s the reason why everything is glowing.
That’s what the sky’s like today: gray, like TV tuned to a dead channel. I was up early today in the pre-dawn light, and now it’s coming on 10 a.m. and doesn’t feel any lighter. Rain then, I suspect, and lots of it. Well, these types of days are conducive to work anyway. Last week I worked on a non-fiction piece and showed it to Mercurio, who said that if I try to sell it as fiction, people will say it’s unbelievable. But it works as a memoir. The story is …
FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Peter Straub, the multi award winning writer of such novels as Ghost Story, Koko, Mr X, and In the Night Room. His most recent novel is A Dark Matter, published by Doubleday this month. He is also the editor the recent Library of America American Fantastic Tales & Daryl Gregory, whose first novel, Pandemonium, won the 2009 Crawford Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. His second novel, The Devil’s Alphabet, was recently named a finalist for …