Pulp Literature Winter 2021: Issue 29

With A Foundations of Lies by cover artist Kris Sayer we emerge from the dark woods with Tatterhoods loyal goat Bokki. Sword in hand (or mouth!) and fierce battle won we are ready to take on the varied landscapes of this issue no passport required.In The Library Giant by feature author Shashi Bhat the struggle with nature - human nature - rages deep within. Meanwhile in British Columbia and Iceland ghosts of grief wander with the living as KT Wagner SL Leong and Erin Wagner explore the rocky terrain of memory.And whether in a culvert or factory but most certainly within ones own mind Mike Gillis and Brandon Crilly remind us how difficult it can be to navigate wreckage of the heart.Forest river mountain ocean - Mother Nature has a starring role in the winning stories for the 2020 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize: The Weeping Pools and Rivers Thousand-One Voice by Cadence Mandybura and Glimpse of a Goddess by Laura Kuhlmann.Poets Abner Porzio with Californian Illusion and Michael Penny with Kalaloch Beach WA introduce us to two very different wild west coasts.Next take flight and soar above it all with part three of Joseph Stilwell and Hugh Hendersons comic saga Blue Skies over Nine Isles.And finally heroines Frankie Ray and Allaigna enter dangerous territory of their own as they search for clues to murder. In Sleuth With Star Quality by Mel Anastasiou Frankie Ray dons a disguise and braves a brothel. And in The Killing Ground the second part of Allaignas Song: Oburakor by JM Landels Allaigna buries the dead in a blood-soaked wasteland.