Strangelet, Volume 1, Issue 1

By Strangelet Press

Volume 1, Issue 1 of Strangelet featuring:
Cover art by (and interview with) Tory Hoke
Comic:
Saved by John Carvajal
Bred to travel the stars, an explorer copes with the mysteries of a new world.
Fiction:
Delia by David Armstrong
When we are near death, can we hear the dead? Can they help us?
Small Seeds by Elizabeth Jenike
Unstoppable. Incurable. From small seeds come the losses we all share in.
The Man Who Lived in My Hair by Evan Mallon
Some people are obsessed with their hair but it’s much more special to have some thing obsessed with it as well.
The Black Madonna by Mikaela von Kursell
Can a knight live with the quiet of a new nation in the tumultuous Iberian Peninsula?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Strangelet Press
• Release date: May 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310006913

Strangelet Press

Strangelet is a journal of speculative fiction that publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic stories/comics, and artwork six times a year with an anthology at the end of each year. We showcase the intersection where genre and literature collide. We want works to reveal compelling, universal truths that speak to us—from starship computers, from dragons’ mouths, and from everyday worlds tinged with miracles. Genres Strangelet primarily publishes short fiction but we also want exceptional artwork, essays, graphic stories, poetry, and reviews that explore the same space. We are looking for works of science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, and anything else that takes the reader to new worlds (or a shadowy corner of ours). Visit our submissions page for more information if you would like to be included in the journal. Visit our store and check out our subscription rates if you would like to purchase an issue. Inspirations Our inspirations include authors and artists like Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Emily Carroll, Madeleine L’Engle, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rod Serling, and Ralph Steadman, who have broken the bounds of genre and literature (and even form) to keep us transfixed. To find out current news about submissions, upcoming issues, or to see what’s inspiring us right now, sign up for our newsletter, follow us at Twitter, Facebook, and our Goodreads page, or use the contact info below.

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Strangelet is a new journal accepting speculative artwork, fiction, graphic stories/comics, nonfiction, and poetry. Strangelet is published 6 times a year.

We want to showcase works where genre and literature collide. We want pieces that situate the gravity of living amid the high energy of imagination to find compelling, beautiful, universal truths that speak to us—whether from starships, from dragons’ mouths, or from an everyday world tinged with miracles.

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Ebook edition by Franco A. Alvarado

Cover art is River Baby © Tory Hoke

© 2015 by Strangelet Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except in the case of brief quotations within critical articles and reviews. Rights revert to authors and artists upon publication.

Strangelet

Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2015

Executive Editor

Casey Brown

Managing Editor, Business Manager, Copyeditor, Proofreader

Leah Alaani

Production Editor, Designer, Copy Chief, Ebook Developer

Franco A. Alvarado

Creative Director, Designer, Proofreader

Chandra Asar

Content Manager, Web Editor, Copyeditor, Proofreader

Andy Dost

Media Director

Tami Marie Lawless

Advisory Editors

Andy Dost, Timothy Ellison, Aaron Krol

Readers

Franco A. Alvarado, Chelsea Cohen, Konstantine Dzugan, Rebecca Jones, Elizabeth Kotz, Gabrielle Roman

Fiction

Evan Mallon

The Man Who Lived in My Hair

Elizabeth Jenike

Small Seeds

David Armstrong

Delia

Mikaela von Kursell

The Black Madonna

Comic

John Carvajal

Saved

Interview

with cover artist Tory Hoke

Submission Guidelines

Evan Mallon

The Man Who Lived in My Hair

I found my skull to be weightless without him. Deserted and pale, my skin was an unspectacular sea of moles and his footprints. Trails were worn along my hairline, and a nickel-sized divot at the crown marked where he sat and corralled my locks, working while I slept.

I was a shell when the man who lived in my hair scampered up my back and nestled beneath my curls. A mumbling stick of a twelve-year-old, warped at the edges like