Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

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Edward Gauvin provides a taster of his upcoming collection of French author Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud's lovely, weird stories in "A City of Museums" and Chinese author Haihong Zhao translated her award winning novel, "Exuviation." Apart from that, this issue contains no manganates, managements, or manatees. Maybe next time.

There are many ways to look at or approach the number 36. It is a square and, therefore seemingly as far from a prime number as it is possible to get. (37 is prime: so the previous statement sounds exciting but is wrong.) There are not 36 short stories within. But there are at least two poems, although they are not 18 pages each. There is a cover from Kat Philbin. There are stories of possibly eerie encounters, stories of unfortunate encounters, stories that do not hold a single encounter, except the imminent encounter between you, the reader, and the writer who is somewhere other in space and now retreating further in time each day. And if the enchantment of fiction - and poetry and nonfiction - works as planned, that magic will take someone's thought that has been encapsulated in words, those words that were encased by ink, that ink that was pinned to paper, and then maybe, just maybe, that magic will be enacted upon you by the act of reading and you will take into your synapses, the space between your synapses, something of what that far distant writer hoped to impart in these words.

This electronic edition was shot into the sky, bounced off the moon, and floated gently into the internet. There are names you may know and, excitingly, names you may not. This zine: always and forever a good read. Here: Two Poems. There: Three Poems of the Abyss. New fiction from Maria Romasco Moore, Leslie Wilber, Howard Waldrop, Izzy Wasserstein, and James Sallis - who returns to LCRW for the first time since LCRW #14. Nicole Kimberling's column "Sweet, Sweet Side Dish" might be about what you're thinking of if you're thinking of eggplant. Those two, three, three - and then one more - poems are from Holly Day, Juan Martinez, Catherine Rockwood, and Michael Werner. We stretched out the back pages and included a bonus story from a collection we published within the last five years.

In LCRW 39 your neighbor's secrets are exposed. Yours too, sorry. Whereas in this one if it the pure fictive product poured upon the page, dried in the sun, and brought to you by the lovely people at your local indie bookstore. Then we take that dried paper page and feed it gently into the ebookulator which produces this ebook for you, your very own readerly self.

This is the issue in which we promised your neighbor's secrets would be exposed. Your secrets too. So sorry to be the bearer of bad news: the secrets, they have been exposed. Check CNN right now. Or, look under that thing at the back of your fridge. The list of neighborhood secrets should be there on a very small piece of paper we are very proud to have folded 12 times. Some people find the 9th through 12th folds difficult, but these wristlets, they really make the difference. Fiction, poetry, a little nonfiction (including a lovely recipe for pickled kumquats), and an absurd amount of hope and despair.

The contents of this zine were produced under pressure but contain a short break and distraction from the everyday.

This is issue Forty (Extraordinary) One of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet which is being published in June of 2020 and is being sent out free to subscribers as a bonus to add joy to this daily more complicated world. (Contributors were paid the usual rates.) Readers who'd like to support the zine are encouraged to subscribe, mais oui, but also to donate to Color of Change, buy books through Black-owned bookstores such as Frugal Bookstore, and bookstores damaged or closed in the civil unrest as we try and change our world, including DreamHaven, Uncle Hugo's, Magers & Quinn, and Moon Palace. Read some excellent short fiction and reset your weary head. A handful of stories by authors known and unknown.

LCRW 42. After all this time, here's the answer? Or: a fabulous and topical new novella from Sarah Langan with a few more delights added. This is the latest issue of our twice-annual zine - 25% of subscribers (not too many in warmer climes) choose the chocolate version - in which we have fictions, poetries, a cooking column (extra useful in these times), and sometimes a few odd other things. Peace!

Who is ready for the fourty-eleventh issue of LCRW? It has stories, poems, a cooking column, & a bonus novel excerpt. Cometh the hour cometh the zine but wait it is written that a zine must sometimes be delay'd.b

May: gone. June: gone. July: moving fast. Here are gods, snakes, death, and demons. On the lighter, crunchier side: carrots and apples. Twice a year this zine slips out into this world, less internationally than it used to. Maybe I just need to stand at airports and offer it as in-flight reading? Maybe I can persuade an airline to make it their in-flight magazine? How refreshing it would be to pull LCRW out of the seat pocket. Since LCRW only comes out twice a year, that leaves 10 months to be filled in with other zines. Airlines, ping me. We can make this work. In the meantime, good things are here. Made by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link.

A surprisingly quick turnaround from the previous issue, mere months, a blink in the (imagined) eye of a tree that one day may become a future issue of this zine. The chocolate has barely been bought but many stories have been read and these two (just two? one of them is quite long) rose to the top of our particular list. We have a suitcase full of stories to look in for the next issue which should be out next May. This issue features Jessica Bromley Bartram's nonchalant individual on, as are we all, their way somewhere. May the place we're going be filled with excellent fiction, unexpected poetry and art, a helping hand from a fabulous cook, chocolate for those so inclined, and peace in our time. Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet issue number 49, December 2024. Made by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link. Memorization not expected but applauded. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 info@smallbeerpress.com smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed by Paradise Copies. Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see website or page 17 of the paper edition for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. DRM-free ebooks available from the lovely weightlessbooks.com. Contents © 2024 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration © 2024 Jessica Bromley Bartram. All rights reserved. Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks authors, artists, readers. Celebrating: Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche received the Blurred Boundaries Award from the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards.