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$9.99Lackington’s 4-issue subscription Ranylt Richildis
Lackington’s publishes speculative fiction told in unusual or poetic language. Lose yourself in appealing, unconventional prose that experiments with aesthetics as it builds imagined worlds. Our writers… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 9 (Winter 2016) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 9 tells of the “Architectures” of life: structural, spiritual, sexual, expected and unexpected, terrestrial and otherwise.
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Foreword ‘Contra Gravitatem (Vita Genevievis)’, by … More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 7 (Summer 2015) Ranylt Richildis et al.
The stories in Issue 7 focus on “Skins,” which make us think about bodies, of course, but also shapeshifting, torture, disease, and sex. You’ll find seven tales in Issue 7 that touch on all of these in rich, … More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 10 (Spring 2016) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 10 proves that “Governments” aren’t all red tape and dry bureaucracy, but rather the links between all bodies, all wits, and the contexts for human passions.
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Foreword
Wax… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 6 (Spring 2015) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 6, our “Seas” issue, features tales set on (and in) the vast deep, but not all great expanses are wet. Read stories about kelp forests, conch-shell palaces, selkie secret-agents, spider caravans, fountains… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 8 (Fall 2015) Ranylt Richildis et al.
The stories in Issue 8 interrogate “Dreamings,” those products of imagination, subconscious, or narcotics that bring relief, ecstasy, or portents while cutting through the illogic of waking life.… More
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$2.99Lackingtons Issue 11 (Summer 2016) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Our “Possessions” issue plays with more than one meaning of the term. Read stories about ownerships and their elaborations of control and greed, and read stories about invasions, too, when our own self … More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 12 (Fall 2016) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 12 is the bestiary we always knew we wanted. This “Animals” collection features one, perhaps two (if you squint) traditional animal tales. The other five stories are hardly the stuff of nurseries, full of … More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 3 (Summer 2014) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 3 features six stories that explore and sometimes upend the old quest tropes. Using everything from shapeshifters to feudal Japan, war-bitten Russia to magical, futuristic sports, these tales rely on old folklore… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 2 (Spring 2014) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 2 is the body issue; the five stories here explore disabled bodies, possessed bodies, constructed bodies–bodies human and animal, flesh and steel. Read about automata in ancient Rome and the Middle East,… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 14 (Spring 2017) Ranylt Richildis
This is a collection for those who hear melodies in all things, even in the buzzing of a swarm of flies. It’s a collection for synaesthetes, musicians, and music-lovers of all kinds. The stories in our “Musics”… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 4 (Fall 2014) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 4 is all about institutions. “Institution” doesn’t just mean schools, jails, and hospitals. Rituals, traditions, and laws are institutions, too. Marriage is an institution, as are religion,… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 5 (Winter 2015) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 5 is our “Beldams” issue, which takes apart this harsh old word and reassembles it into a collection about mature women, nonconformity, and inner witches. It plays with collective stereotypes as well as discrete… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 13 (Winter 2017) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Issue 13 is a collection of stories about “Births”—not all of them positive, and not all of them heralding the start of something. Our authors teach us that some births mark the beginning of frantic endings. You’ll… More
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$2.99Lackington’s Issue 1 (Winter 2014) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Our inaugural issue features seven stories that deal in some way with death. Read about undersea cities, dirigible interplanetary moths, cholera graveyards humming with memory, artful rebellion, and a sorority … More
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Lackington’s Issue 15 (Summer 2017) Ranylt Richildis et al.
Here be diseases literal and metaphorical, mental and physical, some of which are lodged in a human system while others are lodged in systems on a grander scale. Some are speculative diseases that will raise more questions… More