by Gemma Files
“It was a dare,” a boy might say. “For a kiss.” I would gust, and he would tremble. “God, it’s cold. I told her I’d find you, the blue woman up here. C’mon, where are you? I’m going to have to lie. I’d do anything to kiss her, really I would.”
She always threw the candles down the cliffs and watched them break. Then she ate the apricots, tied up her blue, knotted hair with the blue velvet ribbon, and laughed at them all.
Copyright © 2013 Sylvia Linsteadt
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Sylvia Victor Linsteadt is a writer, animal-tracker, and student of local ecology, myth, and folklore. Her short fiction has appeared in such publications as New California Writing 2013 and the Golden Key and is forthcoming with Deathless Press. She has written essays for Poecology, The Dark Mountain Project, and News from Native California. She runs a “wild tales by mail” project called The Gray Fox Epistles and shares her thoughts on wildness and myth regularly at The Indigo Vat weblog (theindigovat.blogspot.com).
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“News from the Horizon,” by Tuomas Korpi
Tuomas Korpi is an illustrator, production designer, and matte painter from Finland. He has worked in the entertainment and advertising industry since 2005, including the last three years as an illustrator, designer, and visual director at Studio Piñata, a Helsinki-based animation and illustration studio. In his work he aims to combine the vivid impressionistic style and lighting with digital media and environment design. He likes to think of his personal works as frames from yet-to-be-made movies that leave the viewer space for their own imagination. See more of his work at tuomaskorpi.com.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
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