The Year's Best Schlock! Fantasy

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Welcome to The Year’s Best Schlock! Fantasy 2013, a compilation of fantasy stories published in Schlock! Webzine over the past year.

Here you can read the work of some of the hottest new talents in fantasy writing today; writer and critic Konstantine Paradias, with a story of exactly what the barbarian does after winning himself a mighty kingdom; author and independent filmmaker Birke Duncan with A Janitor's Territory, an urban fantasy in which a man becomes what he most detests; Warrior Sister, a tribute to the late Andre Norton by Joseph Baneth Allen, freelance writer, critic, author, and poet; The Fool and the King by Mark Slade, Mark Slade, editor of Dark Dreams podcast and Nightmare Illustrated magazine; Kill Something, a story of Renaissance Fairs and alien invasion by Michael B Tager; Gifts From The Sea, a sword and soul story by Sergio Palumbo, edited as ever by the indefatigable Michele Dutcher; Beneath the Temple of Outlandish Idols by yours truly; Uluru by Swedish art critic and poet Mathias Jansson. And finally, the first two chapters of HG Towne's martial arts/Western/sword and sorcery extravaganza, Star Thistle.