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My first time reading Vastarien.Really enjoyed reading this. Couldn't put it down.I'm already looking into what to get next from Grimscribe Press.
“The Mania of the Unforgotten” by Pete Rawlik is one of the first Dream Cycle stories I’ve enjoyed in quite some time, largely due to the lush style and the delightfully unreliable narrator. Probably my favorite of the issue was “We've All Gone to The Magic Show” by Todd Keisling which evokes many of the same unsettled feelings as Ligotti’s “The Town Manager.”Nihilistic approaches to religion is something I’ve come to expect from Vastarien. “The Hollow Songs of Father Prester” by S. L. Edwards i...
The highlights for me were "The Hollow Songs of Father Prester" and "The Way of Silence" and "We've All Gone to the Magic Show".
Vastarien does it again. Stories, poems, artwork, poems, and non-fiction of the highest order. Always my favorite purchase when released. Great reads and rereads!
Every issue. Clear theme running through around what it means to be human and dealing with the thoughts of ceasing to be alive. Ipso facto, dolls. Creepy, fun, thought-provoking, and always a page-turner.
THE ASPEN WRETCH by Daphne Gem Host“, eyes ticking like clockwork in the sterile glow that scrolled down my face.”Hi! from on high.A miraculously prose-poetic act of relationship with every part of one’s body and gender, every age from birth to death, through, say, surgeons working on you or some form of spiritual reverse-ventriloquism of the vocal cords in tune with this journal, plus self-perception, and synaesthetic perception of others outwards — and comparison with animals, say, a snake or
Contents:i =Acknowledgments001 -Moriya -Dean Paschal023 -The Querent - Samantha Bolf039 -To her Lord, the Almighty, upon the reviving of Ezekiel’s bones -M. Christine Benner Dixon043 - Objects of Desire and Dreams of Objectification in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories - Deborah Bridle061 - Common Plants of Southern Pennsylvania -Jill Winsby-Fein075 = Mus Musculus–Wet Specimen, Felis Catus–Full-Body Mount - Avra Margariti079 - Judas Goat - Elliott Gish091 - The Hollow Songs of Father Prester - S. L...