Fusion Fragment Monthly - December 2022
The Latest from Fusion Fragment HQ
FF#14 Released: The latest issue arrived 11/30! You can get your copy for free right here: https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-14/
Social Media: Can you believe ol' Musky walked into Twitter carrying sink just over a month ago? A lot's happened since then, but FF remains on Twitter @FusionFragment. You can also find FF on Instagram @fusionfragment and on Mastodon @fusionfragment[at]mstdn.ca
World Fantasy Awards: Huge congrats to FFer Lauren Ring, who took home the 2022 World Fantasy Short Fiction award for her story "(emet)" which appeared in F&SF!
Upcoming Reading Period: We're about a month away from the next FF reading period which takes place from January 9th to the 22nd. Stories accepted during this time will go to FF#17 (currently set for June 2023) and FF#18 (currently set for August 2023).
November Published Works by FFers
November saw a huge list of publications by FFers! In addition to all the stories and poems, a couple of collections were also released!
Lindz McLeod's Turducken was released by Bear Creek Press while Tiffany Morris's horror poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars was released by Nictating Books.
"Ambience" by Jason P. Burnham in Pulp Literature
"Balloons" by Michelle Ann King in Martian Magazine
"Come the Banshee" by Maxine Sophia Wolff in Planet Scumm
"Core Collapse" and "Dayside to Nightside" by Pauline Barmby in Planetside
"Crossing" by Ewen Ma in Uncanny
"Gazing" by Avra Margariti in Nightmare Sky
"Growing Sentients is a Big Responsibility" by Jason P. Burnham in Planetside
"Hallowed Halls" by Adriana C. Grigore in Martian Magazine
"Hazmat Hearts" by Avra Margariti in Tree and Stone
"Immaculate" by Avra Margariti in Seize the Press
"In That Crumbling Home" by Thomas Ha in Bourbon Penn
"In the Light of the Moon, a Little Egg" by Marisca Pichette in Planetside
"Interlude" by Christopher Hawkins in Cast of Wonders
"Internet-Enabled Appliances Commence Preliminary Discussions on Unionization" by Pauline Barmby in Martian Magazine
"Light Echoes" by Pauline Barmby in Nightmare Sky
"Little Gardens Everywhere" by Avra Margariti in GigaNotoSaurus
"Loving Memory" by Marisca Pichette in Martian Magazine
"Olympus is a Body" by Angela Liu in The Dark
"Our Quiet Guests" by Thomas Ha in Three-Lobed Burning Eye
"Sale or Return" by Michelle Ann King in Planetside
"Santa Knows" by Jo Miles in F&SF
"She Dreams of Moons and Moons" by Marisca Pichette in Strange Horizons
"Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark" by Ariel Marken Jack in Strange Horizons
"Subterranean Horizons: Daycare for Chaos Gremlins" by Jason P. Burnham in Martian Magazine
"The future will not be any% glitchless" by Andrea Kriz in Nature: Futures
"The Ravenous Empyrean" by Zachary Rosenberg in Nightmare Sky
"The Shotgun Lucifer" by Bennett North in F&SF
"The Weight of Feathers" by Lindz McLeod in Janus Literary
"Though the Heavens Fall" by Louis Evans in F&SF
Giveaway Time
The first person to email me at editor@fusionfragment.com and tell me the name of the hackerspace in Owen Leddy’s novelette “Lifeblood” in FF#14 will win their choice of any of the 16 books recommended in that issue!
Recommendations from FF HQ
Read Sarah Pinsker's 2019 Nebula winner A Song for a New Day last month and it was delightful. Such a nice change of pace to read a dystopian/post-apocalyptic novel that's not written with life or death stakes in mind, but finds a relatable way to preach revolution.
My fave movies watched in November were a bit of an eclectic mix: The Aubrey Plaza-starring Emily the Criminal is a tense flick about a debt-ridden woman turning to a life of crime. Salt In My Soul, a documentary that follows a woman living with cystic fibrosis and the journals she left behind after her death, is a terrific film about valuing life and will absolutely leave you with misty eyes. I'm ten years late, but finally watched 2012's Wadjda, the first movie shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first to be directed by a Saudi woman. It's both heart-warming and transgressive at the same time.
Also, while we're talking recs, you can also find the 5 songs that kept me going through the hours of production of FF#14 in this Twitter thread.
Obligatory Photo of Associate Editor Henry
"Why are you putting a camera in my face when I've just awoken from a nap?"
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