Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #2
By Iulian Ionescu, Mike Resnick, Ferrett Steinmetz, Michelle Ann King & Kate O'Connor
- Release Date: 2014-06-30
- Genre: Fantasy
Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience.
Issue #2 includes 14 short stories:
"Winter Solstice" — Mike Resnick
"Da Capo al Fine" — Patrick Jameson
"The Reanimators" — J. Kenneth Sargeant
"A Concert of Flowers" — Kate O'Connor
"These Are The Things Our Hands Have Made" — Andrew Kozma
"A Trade of Tears" — Tony Peak
"Four Scenes From Wieczniak’s Whisk-U-Away, And One Not" — Ferrett Steinmetz
"The Unworthy" — J.W. Alden
"Verdure" — Brandon Barrows
"Million Hearts in the Valley of Death" — Savannah Hendricks
"The Fine Art of Fortune-Telling" — Michelle Ann King
"Marshmallow Walls" — Brittany Foster
"Grimm's Home for Geriatrics" — Rebecca A. Demarest
"JC the Ski Bum" — Joyce Reynolds-Ward
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
-Interview With Award Winning Author Mike Resnick
-Interview With Author Tim Pratt
-Interview With The Editors of Strange Horizons
-Artist Spotlight: Sabbas Apterus
-Book Review: Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson)
-Movie Review: Godzilla (2014) (Gareth Edwards)
The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.