The Lorelei Signal
Edited by Carol Hightshoe
ISSN: 2158-6160
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Welcome to the Apr - Jun '26 Issue of The Lorelei Signal
Celebrating 20 Years
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Stories in this Issue:
by Gregg Chamberlain
Getting the right ingredients for those holiday meals
can be a real adventure sometimes.
by Alara Rogers
A mother seeks to win her stolen child back from the Faerie King – while keeping the changeling baby she was given as well.
by Adrienne Rex
A baker enlists the help of a winter fae to end her engagement.
by Sage Collins
A woman fights demons in a Kansas town, knowing that each one she kills infects her until she's no longer human
by Julia Rajagopalan
Mina is a suburban witch who takes on freelance spellwork for competitive dance moms, until a recital spirals into magical chaos. Mina is forced to decide just how far she’s willing to bend her ethics for a paycheck.
by Shishinao
A young, ambitious king plots and plans for the demise of his latest wife, Chisi, unaware she is not the simple demure woman she makes herself seem to be.
by Maureen Bowden
A coven of witches must destroy a demon from the Otherworld. To do so, a huge sacrifice must be made and Nia, a young witch, must take on responsibility for the coven’s future.
by Ken Goldman
Sculptor Bernard Kronstadt is determined to capture in stone the woman whose death he is responsible for during the Holocaust. It proves to be his masterpiece except for one small flaw...
by Mosheen
Larkan, a female dragon, is asked by the High Council to investigate tourist trips to a newly-discovered planet, which are being arranged by Thapar, a male dragon of questionable morals. Unknown to the High Council, Larkan has a grudge the size of a walrus against Thapar, and the end result of the investigation is both disastrous as well as hilarious.
by Lisa Timpf
Poetry
by Diane Arrelle
Some people have incredibly bad luck and some people are lucky enough to have a fairy godmother, but alas sometimes that bad luck rubs off on the fairy godmother.
by Laura J Underwood
The strange music floating over the misty moors called to Anwyn's love of new songs. But will it also call him to his doom?
by Mary Jo Rabe
A clothing designer on Mars persists despite the opposition of the habitat mayor.
by Margot Conor
Some memories are better left behind—but what if forgetting costs more than you ever knew was possible?
by Max Longhurst
Take the Leap today!
In the near future, long-distance travel can be achieved in the blink of an eye thanks to the Leap - in short, instantaneous teleportation. Only, Josh hasn't forgotten the horrifying truth: the you who steps out the other side isn't really you, is it?
by R. C. Capasso
A young woman finds her new job unusually challenging.
by David Anson Lee
Poetry
by Craig Borri
A man finds out his late great grandmother was more than she seemed.
by Diana Parrilla
When memory-wiped rebel Macie rediscovers the truth of her capture—and the boy who abandoned her to the Queen’s mind-breaking experiments—she returns to the resistance to end the Pairing Directive once and for all.
by Lillian Csernica
Celestial Lady Ti Wen, First Daughter of the Emperor, discovers a cure for the boredom of being ladylike when she forces her twin brother to allow her a cup of the brew drunk only by warriors.
by Malina Hubler
A fairytale about sisterhood, loss and independence.
by Nicky O’Connell
Poetry
by Muze
The stars are disappearing. It's a fact that haunts Gale, a head researcher at the Library. A once-in-a-century constellation mage, Gale is desperate to save the stars and magic, but it might take a Starless, magic-less woman entering her life to find her way forward.
by Sarah Burchett-Cook
Confined to a retirement home, a defiant witch creates magical mischief to bring her daughter home so she can pass the family legacy to its rightful heir.
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The Lorelei Signal (ISSN: 2158-6160) is published quarterly, by WolfSinger Publications.
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