Oddlands Magazine, whose debut we announced in January, is closing down, effective immediately. The small “webzine of speculative fiction” managed to produce five issues before the editor’s computer “imploded”, taking with it all submissions and correspondence. The editor (whose name doesn’t seem to appear anywhere on the site) had been considering shutting down before that, but apparently the technical event crystallized his thoughts. His announcement (on the web site’s front page) also releases (rejects?) all submissions that may have been sent to him.
The magazine did manage to produce five issues, of which we only remarked on the first three. Archives of all five are currently on the site, but there’s no telling how long they’ll be available.
Issue 4 includes three pieces of short fiction and two of poetry:
“Black Roses” by Jaime Samms (fiction)
“The Darkmoon Pearl” by John Kratman (fiction)
“Dark Wing” by Tracie McBride (fiction)
“His Eye Ever Watches Me” by John Nichols (poem)
“Antigone, at the Mall” by Jacqueline West (poem)
Issue 5 has three pieces of fiction and three poems:
“My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” by Edward Morris (fiction)
“The World Above” by Adam Durrant (fiction)
“Yet Again at the Funeral of Robin Goodfellow” by Derek Goodman (fiction)
“Music Smooth as Fog” by Marge Simon (poem)
“Sparrow” by Marge Simon (poem)
“In the Eyes of the Pilot” by Bruce Boston (poem)