Talebones‘ Editor Patrick Swenson announces that issue #38 of the “magazine of science fiction and dark fantasy” has shipped from the printer, and should be arriving in subscriber mailboxes soon.
Contents of this issue, dated Summer 2009, includes:
“Ginger Stuyvesant and the Case of the Haunted Nursery” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“The Only Wish Ever to Come True” by Scott Edelman
“Blackout Man” by David Sakmyster
“Bird of Paradise” by Ari Goelman
“Swoop” by Patricia Russo
“Discards” by Tim McDaniel
“Sausages” by Marshall Payne
“All Sparks” by Edward McEneely
“How Thunder Dog Shed His Shadow” by Brian Hiebert
“The Best Last Choice I Ever Made” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“Second Time Around” by Greg Schwartz (poem)
“horrorku” by Greg Schwartz (poem)
“The Weeping Woman” by K.S. Hardy (poem)
This issue also has a reprint of an interview with Roger Zelazny, conducted by Ken Rand. Interior art is by Ben Baldwin, Keith Boulger, Brad Foster, Laura Givens, Tom Simonton, Eric M. Turnmire, and Dora Wayland. The cover art is by Jeff Sturgeon.