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Amid the hard-scrabble West Virginia coal mines, a terrible magical vengeance takes an equally terrible toll on a young boy's heart. Ancient gods provide metaphors for a father's love and a child's grief, and Cinderella's shattered glass slippers become a window into the horror of the Holocaust. A mythic tale of a little girl's rebellion explains all the craziness of weather, and the Wandering Jew reveals the truth about the Loch Ness Monster.
Longtime Mythic Delirium editor Mike Allen returns to his fiction roots with MYTHIC, a digest of fantasy prose and verse in the tradition of Prime Books' Jabberwocky. This volume, the first of a planned anthology series, places off-beat new talents like Matthew Cheney, Theodora Goss, Richard Parks and Sonya Taaffe alongside veterans such as Joe Haldeman and Ian Watson to offer a unique literary smorgasbord of humor and horror, wonder and wisdom.
Contents:
* Syllables of Old Lore, Vandana Singh (poem)
* Exorcisms, Sonya Taaffe (fiction)
* Kristallnacht, Lawrence Schimel (poem)
* In Exile, Matthew Cheney (fiction)
* Dissecting Ophelia, JoSelle Vanderhooft (poem)
* Saint Louisa of the Wild Children: An Annotated Hagiography, Ian Watson (fiction)
* Cities of Salt and Ice, Constance Cooper (poem)
* Sakhmet the Destroyer, Gary Every (poem)
* Cemetery Seven, Charles Saplak (fiction)
* The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider, Catherynne M. Valente (poem)
* Misha and the Months, Erzebet YellowBoy (fiction)
* The Choices of Leaves, Vandana Singh (poem)
* Pygmalion's Marriage, Larry Hammer (poem)
* Of the Driving Away of a Certain Water Monster by the Virtue of the Prayers of the Holy Man, or What Really Happened at Loch Ness in the Summer of 565 A.D., Bud Webster (fiction)
* Goblin Song, Theodora Goss (poem)
* The Last Romantic, Richard Parks (fiction)
* Beauty to the Beast, Theodora Goss (poem)
* god is dead short live god, Joe Haldeman (poem)
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