Baubles From Bones

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Scapegoats old age and alien gossip</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - through sharp-toothed friendships and blighted colonization contemplate which common threads tie our societies together leave us bound and knot us into something new in this issue of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Baubles From Bones.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In seven new speculative stories: aliens share info across orbits blood-thirsty revolution drives an exodus and a shaky alliance crops up out of necessity. In a land bloodied by millennia of war a girl trains to fight a lone dragon and a could-be couple discuss immortality over a candlelit dinner. Bounty hunters stalk a synthetic human for the crime of living. Colonizers learn that fungal networks run deeper than human borders. Through four new pieces of poetry: an AI civilization searches for harmony in ancient churches science and art both long for the unknown friends are found deep beneath the rock and ecological collapse beaches beasts colossal and mysterious.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Featuring work by: Deborah L. Davitt Mary Soon Lee Parker McIntosh Sylvie Althoff Jennifer Jeanne McArdle Danielle Froom Jim O'Loughlin Lynn Sargent Madalena Daleziou Brian Hugenbruch and Chris Scott</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cover art by: Lucas Kurz</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Edited by: Joel Troutman Elyse Leskovic and Shane Gallaher</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Social Media Manager: Caroline Ritzert</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Interior Illustrations by: Elyse Leskovic and Joel Troutman</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Independently published in Pittsburgh PA</span></p><p></p>