Some time ago I had the great good pleasure to guest-edit Issue 18 of online noir/crime mag THE BIG CLICK. I solicited fabulous new stories from Ray Vukcevich and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, as well as reviews, interviews, and essays.
Sadly, the mag’s no longer running new stories. But for the next three weeks the entire collected catalogue is available as part of a noir story bundle. CHECK IT.
story bundle link:
https://storybundle.com/noir
Issue 18/ January 2015, “Bête Noir”:
http://www.thebigclickmag.com/zineshop/issue-18-january-2015
Bête Noir: Darkness at the Crossroads:
http://www.thebigclickmag.com/editorial
I’ll be in Toronto this weekend talking Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror with other spectacular spec-fic shakers and makers. Come hear lively discourse, sip of the squashed grape, or wave to fellow ships, passing in the night — or come hear me read this Saturday! 12:00-12:30pm at Ad Astra in room Markham B.
It’s with a poet’s heart I claim as my favourite woman in all of Shakespeare the subject of Sonnet 130: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.” In school we studied several of Shakespeare’s plays before an inspired and ambitious teacher drove us determinedly through the sonnets. After the previous parade of Ophelias, Juliets, and Titanias, I thrilled at Shakespeare’s earthy frankness in celebrating not only that a woman could be portrayed as human, but that as such she was more compelling than any idealization, caricature, or fancy.
Zandra Renwick 