Thirst Issue 2

By Big Pulp

Thirst is the love child of Big Pulp, where romance meets fantasy...and science fiction and mystery and horror. You won’t find the typical romance fiction tropes—no heaving bosoms or torn bodices, no wilting wallflowers waiting for love to complete them. Instead, you’ll meet characters driven by purpose, a need they must fill, a thirst they’ll do anything to slake.

Thirst is about desire—for love, sex, fame, money, power, acceptance, beauty, and connection. Thirst is about passion, and obsession. It’s about hunger, jealousy, need. It’s about doing what you must to get what you want. It’s about heartache. It’s about lying and cheating, deception and betrayal, sin and redemption. And sometimes...yes, sometimes, it’s even about Love. Indulge your thirst.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Big Pulp
• Release date: Sep 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370526574

Big Pulp

Since 2008, Big Pulp has published the best in fantastic fiction from around the globe. We publish periodicals - including Big Pulp, Child of Words, M, and Thirst - and themed anthologies.

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Thirst

Passion and Obsession

July 2016

Big Pulp Publications

Bill Olver, editor and publisher

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Thirst Vol. 1, No. 2

July 2016

ISSN 2373-6933 (print)

ISSN 2373-6941 (electronic)

Thirst is published annually in July by Big Pulp Publications. 
All credited material is copyright by the author(s). All other material © 2016 Big Pulp Publications.

The stories and poems in this magazine are fictitious and any resemblance between the characters in them and any persons living or dead—without satirical intent—is purely coincidental.

Reproduction or use of any written or pictorial content without the permission of the editors or authors is strictly forbidden, with the exception of fair use for review purposes.

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From the Editor

Thirst is where romance meets fantasy…and science fiction and mystery and horror. In Thirst, you won’t find the typical romance fiction tropes—no heaving bosoms or torn bodices, no wilting wallflowers waiting for love to complete them. Instead, you’ll meet characters driven by purpose, a need they must fill, a thirst they’ll do anything to slake.

Thirst is about desire of all kinds—for love, sex, fame, money, power, acceptance, beauty, and connection.

Thirst is about passion, and obsession. It’s about hunger, jealousy, need.

It’s about doing what you must to get what you want. It’s about heartache. It’s about lying and cheating, deception and betrayal, sin and redemption.

And sometimes…yes, sometimes, it’s even about Love.

Indulge your thirst.

Bill Olver

Editor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FICTION

Honey, Is That a Dead Hooker Under the Bed? by J.A. Kazimer

It Might As Well Be Me by Helen Silverstein

When Molly the Necrophiliac Went on a Date With Suicide Stanley by Match Ryan

Einstein Rode Bitch by Brian Anglin

POETRY

Spock: A Romance in Quotes by Kristen McHenry

On the Many Uses of Duct Tape for Resolving Relationship Issues by Terrie Leigh Relf

COMIX

Track Meat by Jason A. Quest and Rick Worley

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Kristen McHenry is a resident of Seattle, WA, where she is a poet by night, manager of hospital volunteers by day. She has her bachelor’s degree in theatre arts and filmmaking from The Evergreen State College. Among other publications, her work has been seen in Bare Root Review, Numinous Magazine, Tiferet Journal, Sybil’s Garage, Big Pulp, and the anthology, Many Trails to the Summit, published by Rose Alley Press. Her chapbook The Goatfish Alphabet was runner-up in qarrtsiluni’s 2009 chapbook contest, and was published