We’re here today with a special interview with Issue 034 author Virginia M. Mohlere about her featured story “The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change.” Come and join us as we talk dragons and curiosity. LSQ: A tiny dragon and coins! What a fun story. Is this a modern take on the old […]
Issue 033 author Katharine Coldiron explores a dystopian future where her protagonist hunts down a once simple but now almost impossible pleasure: the sound of opera. Go read her short story “C-A-L-L-A-S” first, then continue below to our conversation with Katharine about her story and writing in general. LSQ: Your dystopian future created by an […]
Nope, it’s not “rejection”. Many moons ago, in a college short story writing class, the professor very kindly handed me back the story I’d written and told me, “It’s not a complete story. It’s a vignette.” This means, of course, that it lacked a full story arc. Ever since then, when I start a new […]
Dearest readers! Here is what you need to know for all things LSQ in May: We close for submissions on May 15 so get your wonderful speculative fiction stories to us before then; Issue 034 will be out June 1!!! Brimming with fabulous fantasy, sci-fi, and things somewhere in between, this issue, like all our […]
“If a story is seed, then we are its soil. Just hearing the story allows us to experience it as though we ourselves were the heroine who either falters or wins out in the end.” Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves (p. 418)[1] Heroism remains a prevalent topic, especially as we […]
Inspired by the Tarot Illuminati deck, by Erik C. Dunne, and informed by its companion book, written by Kim Huggens. This post in particular is built upon fond memories of browsing the gardener’s dream book, The Principles of Gardening, by Hugh Johnson. The garden before me is only half green. The rest is bright […]
Life is a series of neatly compartmentalized blocks of work, family, hobbies . . . Wait, hold on a sec <insert laughter of insanity> Sorry. We all know what a load of crud that is. Oh, the blocks are there! Work, family . . . we all have our unique building blocks that make up […]
Issue 032 is out now — go take a peek. We’re very excited to publish the second story in our current issue which is our first translated work for the Quarterly. Written by Irene Grazzini and translated from Italian by Joyce Myerson, the short story “The Smile” takes a well-known artwork and twists it into […]
Welcome to ON THE BOOKS, a new LSQ column that focuses on legal and business issues confronting authors today. In this column, I’ll be addressing issues that authors and other creative artists face in their day to day creative lives, with an emphasis on issues like copyright, fair use, trademark, privacy, and defamation law, as […]
To Whom It May Concern, I’m not delusional, I know most romantic comedies are crap. The teen ones are filled with angsty kids that speak about life as if they’ve lived it six times over. And the adult ones are filled with people who haven’t learned how to communicate properly, despite existing on this planet […]
