Bourbon Penn 19

Bourbon Penn's devotion to visionary storytelling continues with issue #14: nonhuman species pursuing questionable agendas provoke two minimum-wage workers into doubting their own humanity ... a small town fraught with economic despair, where mothers mysteriously die, drives boyhood pals into an emotional quest for meaning through building their own fortress ... a college janitor seeks redemption through confrontation with parallel selves ... corporate co-workers take hyper-efficiency into a new brutalism where failure is not an option ... a wandering girl and her intended rescuer might've simply run away, or do they wait in cold river mud to reunite with the anguished living?For connoisseurs of the liminal whose appetites exceed the offerings of traditional speculative fiction, follow these explorers of existence into landscapes emotional and mysterious ... return with artifacts stranger than love, but hauntingly intimate.

Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in multiple Year's Best anthologies as well as Shirley Jackson Award, Stoker Award, and New York Times Notable collections. Our latest, Bourbon Penn 22, features all new stories of the imagination and odd by Corey Farrenkopf, Casey Forest, Elana Gomel, Paige Powell, Gretchen Tessmer, Michelle Ann King, and Emily C. Skaftun.

Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in multiple Year's Best anthologies as well as Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and New York Times Notable collections. Our latest, Bourbon Penn 24, features all new stories of the imagination and odd by A. C. Wise, Sam Rebelein, Michael Gardner, Emma Culla, Charles Wilkinson, and Chelsea Sutton.

Bourbon Penn 21 features six new stories of the imagination and odd by Crystal Lynn Hilbert, Maria Dones, Josh Pearce, Erin K. Wagner, Barton Aikman, and Jason Baltazar. These pages are filled with a mix of horror, fantasy, and the unclassifiable, featuring writers both established and new. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in anthologies including The Year's Best Weird Fiction and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, won the 2018 Aurealis award for Best Fantasy Short Story, and been recommended by Locus magazine.

Bourbon Penn #15 offers five new exciting realities to explore in an issue of bold speculative fiction from Brian Evenson, Chris Kammerud, Josh Pearce, A.L. Rowser, and J. Ashley Smith.Sometimes Things Are True - a young superhero named Lucy rides a space elevator to the cracked moon in search of her father, who's a ninja zombie werewolf space pirate. Discover why, in this world, belief can be a superpower.Sensorium - after a dragon climbs out of the wishing well in her garden, Amelia discovers a quantum fairyland where things appear as they really are, and the dangers are given their true form.Strange Mechanisms - The Guy with the Hole in His Throat has two roommates. Sometimes they take human form. Sometimes they don't. Then one day he has a third, The Other Guy With the Hole in His Throat, who looks exactly like him.The Further Shore - there's a shack on a beach and you don't want to be outside at night. Hungry things live in night. There are ships out beyond the reef, but hungry things live in the water, too.Song For the Unravelling of the World - when his daughter disappears, Drago can't go to the police. Is she in the walls? In the garbage disposal? In the television static? Enter his world and help him find her before it's too late.For fans of Weird, slipstream, and the fantastic, Bourbon Penn continues to offer unsettling and soul-searing stories from today's talented voices. Turn over a rock and watch what scuttles in the light. Warm a fossilized egg in your hands and see what hatches. Tune the static of cosmic radiation and find what signal hides in its noise. Open the pages of Bourbon Penn and discover.