Pulp Literature Winter 2025

<ul><li><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Solstice Ritual</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> by cover artist </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Herman Lau </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>challenges us in a winter landscape where myth and folklore lurk. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Adopt a revolutionary spirit with feature author </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>George McWhirter</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'s 'Grillo the Story of a Cricket' and defy the oligarchs in 'Baba Yaga and the Bear' by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gregg Chamberlain</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poet </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dan MacIsaac </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>takes us back to ancient Crete with 'Pholoe' while </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>DA Cooper<em> </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>brings blessed sleep to Valhalla in 'Ragnabeðtími'.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 'Their Grandfather's Chair' by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>JM Landels</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Allaigna's sisters are forced out of their comfort zone and onto separate paths while returning to childhood memories is prickly and uncomfortable in 'The Past as Foundation for the Family Home' by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shelley Lavigne </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and 'Say Cheese Jesus Please' by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rina Piccolo.</strong></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The writing muse strikes at inopportune times in 'How to Write a Novel in Ten Days During the Zombie Apocalypse' by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jakob Drud </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and 'Take My Hand: Enter Night' by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mel Anastasiou.</strong></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And flash fiction from Hummingbird Prize winners </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cheryl Skory Suma</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Adam Fout</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Soramimi Hanarejima </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>offers a look at difficult relationships in their many incarnations.</span></li></ul>