What is on the inside? Short stories, four poems from Marge Piercy, and a cooking column because once I read a zine with a cooking column and loved it and I thought it would be fun and interesting to ask Nicole Kimberling to write one and I’ve been delighted to read her columns ever since. fiction Mark Rigney, True Songs of the Pennyrile Gillian Daniels, You’ll Never Get Away With This Jennifer Skogen, A Fear and a Wish Catherine Rockwood, Kleine Boot Rachel Ayers, Snow’s Kingdom A.B. Young, Terracotta Urn Chris Kammerud, Goodnight, My Love. Tonight’s the Night. Ellen Saunders, Baking a Traditional Funeral S.E. Clark, The Fisherman’s Braid poetry Marge Piercy, Four Poems nonfiction Nicole Kimberling, How to Provide Shelter From the World cover Christine Larsen, October —— Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 46. December 2022. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732101. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November [missing from these pages is something about the delay but it is so uninteresting: Gavin, writing this, is chronically ill, slow at everything, and looking at 2023 and hoping there’ll be an improvement] by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw · twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Mastodon: mstdn.social/@gavinsmallbeerpress Printed at Paradise Copies · 413-585-0414. Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see smallbeerpress.com/shopping/subscriptions or the print issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through WeightlessBooks.com, &c. Contents © 2022 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration © by Christine Larsen (christinelarsenillustration.com). About These Authors Rachel Ayers lives in Alaska, where she writes and hosts shows for Sweet Cheeks Cabaret, daydreams, and stares at mountains. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science which comes in handy at odd hours. Her fiction has recently appeared in Metaphorosis and Radon Journal, and she is a regular contributor at Tor.com. She shares speculative poetry and flash fiction (and cat pictures) on her Patreon: patreon.com/richlayers. S.E. Clark is a writer and an artist living in a town outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Her work is often inspired by the places and people around the North Shore and examines the relationship between the fantastical and the mundane. She runs Aprilarium.com, a home for haunted and honeyed work, and has been published in several magazines including Weird Horror, The South Shore Review and The Drum Literary Magazine. This is her second time appearing in LCRW. Gillian Daniels’ poetry and short fiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among more than thirty other publications. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, grew up in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, and she now writes, works, and haunts the streets in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. She also makes comics and zines, searches out little-known horror and indie movies, and definitely wants to see pictures of your cat. Chris Kammerud (chriskammerud.com) is a writer, teacher, and performer. Their work has been short-listed for the Calvino Prize and has appeared in, among other places, Strange Horizons, Phantom Drift, and Bourbon Penn. They are a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. They live in Brooklyn. Nicole Kimberling has only just now started cooking dinner for guests again after almost two years without offering anyone except her wife a plate of food. She’s barely able to contain her excitement about it long enough to function in her day job as editor of Blind Eye Books. She also written several novels and even an audio drama podcast, Lauren Proves Magic is Real!, which, like her column in this zine, is also about food and cooking—just on the supernatural level....
