It appears you can read issue #19 for free. This is an excellent chance to get a taste for the type of fiction M-BRANE SF publishes. I’m excited to be in this issue with so many other talented writers.
Here’s the Table of Contents:
Shawn Scarber: “Burnt Benediction”
Bart Leib: “Flip the Switch”
Ian Sales: “Through the Eye of a Needle”
Jacques Barbéri (tr. Michael Shreve): “Isanve”
Jason S. Ridler: “4×40 Killers”
Regan Wolfrom: “A Step Beyond the Rain”
Signed the contract tonight, so I’m happy to officially announce that my weird science fiction short story “Burnt Benediction” will appear in the August edition of M-Brane SF. I feel this story has found an exceptionally fitting home with M-Brane SF and encourage everyone to subscribe and give the magazine a read.
Here’s a small sampling from “Burnt Benediction”:
Fr. Marcias lifted his shotgun and pumped it. A pumped shotgun had a nice beat to it. A song of violence was a tune that Fr. Marcias liked rather well.
He charged down the hall where the boy’s gaze had lingered. After a few steps, he jumped and kicked the old wooden door, riding it to the ground he then went down on one knee with the shotgun to his shoulder. He would have just started blasting, but a familiar smell hit his nostrils; the smell of late nights covered in a thin layer of sweat.
When the dust cleared, the only person in the room was a woman who sat cross-legged on the edge of an oak desk. The furniture looked as though it had been built for the same time period as the building, but the woman looked like something out of a movie from the nineteen forties with a tight skirt, frilly blouse, and high heels. Fr. Marcias regretted the moment he recognized her. It wouldn’t have mattered how she disguised herself, either. He would have still known her.
“Darling,” she said. “When I heard Papa was sending one of his bad boys out this way, I so hoped it was you. It’s so good to see you again, and again, and again.”
