The Winter 2008 issue of Goblin Fruit is now available. Goblin Fruit is a quarterly webzine that publishes “poetry of the fantastical.” And some of the contents are available as .wav files.
This issue kicks off with a note from the editors (Amal El-Mohtar, Jessica P. Wick, and Oliver Hunter), and then has the content divided into a Prologue, The Book of Maidens, The Book of Monsters, and an Epilogue. Contents of those chapters are:
Prologue:
“Night Augur” by Lucinda Lawson
The Book of Maidens:
“Selkie” by Maureen McQuerry
“Briar Rose” by Anca Vlasopolos
“St. Lucia” by Helen Ogden
“Twelve Swans” by Jennifer Crow
“Cherries in Winter” by Sonya Taaffe
“Cityscape of the Steel Princess” by Katharine Mills
“The Bashful Young Swain at the Ogre’s Cotillion” by R. Borski
“Step (and Turn)” by J.C. Runolfson
“The Warrior” by C.S. MacCath
“To the Royal Society of Cryptozoologists” by Caitlyn Paxson
The Book of Monsters:
“The Explorer’s Daughter” by JoSelle Vanderhooft
“Kitsune” by Joshua Gage
“Revisiting the Maiden’s Tower” by Stacy Cowley
“Green Beans” by Clare Walker
“Sedna” by C.S.E. Cooney
“Woodcutter, Why?” by Clare Walker
“Great of Magic” by Ann K. Schwader
“The Choke-Damp” by Sophanny Marin
“Hag-Rid” by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
“Cheshire” by Maureen McQuerry
Epilogue:
“Death Enters a Mother’s Service” by JoSelle Vanderhooft