“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

— William Blake

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“A fantastic twist on mythology…a radical reinvention of faith and folklore, not to mention the portal fantasy…”One city’s rubble is the next city’s foundation,” Kressel writes. Not only does that simple, profound idea underpin King of Shards’ plot, it’s the method to the book’s majestic, resonant, reality-twisting madness.” — NPR Books on King of Shards

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Sybil's Garage An acclaimed speculative fiction magazine, published from 2003 through 2010.

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Sybil’s Garage was a magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art, published from annually 2003 through 2010 for a total of seven issues, all edited by Matthew Kressel. The magazine’s stories and content received many accolades, honorable mentions, award nominations and shortlists. Though Sybil’s Garage is no longer in publication, you can still get copies of it here. Many well-known authors today had early works published in Sybil’s Garage, including Richard Bowes, Amal El-Mohtar, Paul Tremblay, Livia Llewellyn, Lauren McLaughlin, Genevieve Valentine, and many others.