Plugs

Sara Genge’s story “Godtouched” may be found in Strange Horizons.

David Kopaska-Merkel’s book of humorous noir fiction based on nursery rhymes, Nursery Rhyme Noir 978-09821068-3-9, is sold at the Genre Mall. Other new books include The zSimian Transcript (Cyberwizard Productions) and Brushfires (Sams Dot Publishing).

Susannah Mandel’s short story “The Monkey and the Butterfly” is in Shimmer #11. She also has poems in the current issues of Sybil’s Garage, Goblin Fruit, and Peter Parasol.

Ken Brady’s latest story, “Walkers of the Deep Blue Sea and Sky” appears in the Exquisite Corpuscle anthology, edited by Jay Lake and Frank Wu.

The Singing Bowl

by Kat Beyer

She’s dust and gone, but this remains: a smooth fine pot painted in her own fluid hand. Each little figure paces the circular path around the pot with her arms full, this one with minute wheat ears, each tiny grain outlined, that one with a lamb perfect to the last curl. And they sing, the words rising up from their mouths in little streams of letters we cannot translate though they look so familiar, an alphabet just round the corner from us.

They sing just on the edge of hearing. I thought I was going mad when I heard it, until I saw some children at the Museum listening, pressing their ears against the glass until the guard came and told them off.

I think she knew she would be dust. I mean, we all know it, but I think she really knew, and she knew a way around it, a way to put her voice in the clay more lasting than her perfect lines. But why? I believe that to anyone who listens, the answer is plain: she only wanted, long after her own mouth was stopped, to be heard just for a moment.

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