Sybil's Garage No. 7

Where can you find a television that sees five minutes into the future? Where can you find dragons trapped in a jar and an illness which turns people into glass? Where might you find families who sell their brainpower to corporations for penny wages, or dead relatives that sit down for family meals?

Why, in the pages of Sybil’s Garage No. 7, of course.

In this seventh issue of the highly acclaimed series, you will find twenty-seven original works of fiction and poetry from today’s top talent, with suggested musical accompaniment, our trademark design aesthetic, and much more. But be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs on your way into Sybil’s Garage, or you may not find your way out.

6"x9", 206pp ISBN: 978-0-9796246-1-2 $ (Print Version)

Table of Contents

Fiction

"By Some Illusion" — Kathryn E. Baker
"Suicide Club" — Amy Sisson
"The Noise" — Richard Larson
"A History of Worms" — Amelia Shackelford
"Thinking Woman’s Crop of Fools" — Tom Crosshill
"The Unbeing of Once-Leela" — Swapna Kishore
"How the Future Got Better" — Eric Schaller
"The Telescope" — Megan Kurashige
"Under the Leaves" — A.C. Wise
"The Ferryman’s Toll" — Sam Ferree
"The Tale of the Six Monkeys’ Tails" — Hal Duncan
"The Poincaré Sutra" — Anil Menon
"Kid Despair in Love" — M.K. Hobson
"My Father’s Eyes" — E.C. Myers
"An Orange Tree Framed Your Body" — Alex Dally MacFarlane
"The Watcher Thorn" — Cheryl Barkauskas
"Other Things" — Terence Kuch
"The Dead Boy’s Last Poem" — Kelly Barnhill

Poetry

"Seven League"s — Lyn C. A. Gardner
"One October Night in Baltimore" — Jaqueline West
"Indian Delight" — Alexandra Seidel
"Candle for the Tetragrammaton" — Sonya Taaffe
"Emigrant" — Linsdey Duncan
"Schehirrazade" — Amal El-Mohtar
"The Hyacinth Girl" — Adrienne J. Odasso
"Pathways Marked in Silver" — Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
"Rain " — Juliet Gillies

Non-Fiction

"Glourious Homage: Quentin Tarantino’s Love Letter to Cinema" — Avi Kotzer

Press and Reviews

For Issue No. 6

“Sybil’s Garage [is] one of the best run and downright prettiest of the small press magazines…” - Escape Pod, Stephen Eley, Editor, (listen to podcast)

“It’s a stylishly put together magazine, There’s plenty of poetry, art, and nonfiction in addition to the stories…My favorites included Simon Petrie’s “Downdraft”, set on another planet with intelligent zeppelins and flying human-like people. This story is about a young flyer’s ill-advised attack on one of the zeppelins — a story really about misunderstanding, with no bad guys. Also, Becca de la Rosa’s “Not the West Wind”, about, variously, and among other things: a woman in love with a guitar, the west wind, Ireland, and a foundling girl; and Sean Markey’s “Waiting for the Green Woman”, about a man with a tree for a daughter. Other strong work came from Eric Del Carlo, Genevieve Valentine, and Stephanie Campisi.” - Rich Horton, on his blog (read the full review)

“Another grouping of SF/fantasy little magazines could perhaps be described as the Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet circle. One fine fairly new example is Sybil’s Garage. Its sixth outing has plenty of fine stories and poems.” - Locus, Rich Horton (print only)

“Issue six of Sybil’s Garage from Senses Five Press is fun. ..Reading it is like wandering into a house party where you not only mingle with the guests, you peruse the décor and absorb the mix of tunes emanating from the stereo.” -The Fix, Dan Alamia (read the full review)

“This is the most interstitial volume of the innovative magazine to date. From the composite front photograph of a scarecrow emerging from a New York subway station (the G line) into a lonely pumpkin field to Susannah Mandel’s surreal page entitled “Metamorphic Megafauna” …this issue ranges widely through genres and your brain.” - The Interstitial Arts Foundation, Delia Sherman (read the full review)

 The stories were varied and all worth reading. It’s moved its home from Hoboken to Brooklyn but is still a unique mix of unusual stories, poems and articles, all with suggestions on the appropriate music to play while reading…Sybil’s Garage is still a strange little magazine with old-fashioned illustrations accompanying the text. For those that want their fiction to be truly different, this is for you.” - SFRevu, Sam Tomaino (read the full review)

“Ever since first discovering the magazine Sybil’s Garage in 2005 after being shown it by Kris Dikeman, I’ve loved the small press magazine produced by Matt Kressel of Senses Five Press. The magazine’s steady climb in quality moves to upward from an already pretty high starting point, and this issue shows the trend continuing.” – Fantasy Magazine, Cat Rambo (read the full review)

“One of writer Damien G. Walter’s challenges is that “We need more beautiful magazines” and Sybil’s Garage No. 6 easily fits that bill. While not as experimental as McSweeney’s, editor Matthew Kressel does a lot of outstanding things with this issue. Aside from the well-designed layout, each story/poem is preceded by a recommended song and this presentation is consistent. There’s also what seems like random scribblings by an enigmatic writer at the end of various texts but it all culminates into one meta-narrative that this reviewer found tear-jerking, even if it’s just a simple plot and conceit.” - Bibliophile Stalker, Charles Tan (read the full review)