The Lorelei Signal
Edited by Carol Hightshoe
ISSN: 2158-6160
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Stories in this Issue:
by Jordan Hirsch
For six centuries, the people of Crescent have dreamed of returning to Earth. When Peya becomes the first person able to reach the long-abandoned shuttle, she discovers that going home may demand a price no one has bothered to ask her about.
by Zachary Reger
Delia, the crow, is in love.
The only problem with the man of her dreams? He is a human—to whom intelligent crows like Delia are forbidden to speak.
by Joshua Grasso
Henrick and Neeltie are teenage blue-bloods in the Queen's palace, with nothing better to do than spy on a strange man who appears every morning to wait on the Queen (who refuses to see him). Neeltie challenges Henrick to learn his true identity and purpose, which leads them on a desperate game of one-upmanship until Neeltie is impersonating the Queen herself. And when they find out why he's here, the entire fate of the kingdom rests on their ability to defraud the kingdom and waylay a marauding dragon before the real Queen finds out!
by B. Morris Allen
Solna, disappointed in love , has turned reluctant dragon killer - at their own behest. Having become both hero and horror, she finds peace in the death of the last dragon.
by Zary Fekete
Flash Fiction
by Jillian Schedneck
A near-future art installation claims to translate the mind into image, and becomes a social rite among Miranda’s colleagues. When her experience fails to produce what everyone else sees, Miranda is forced to reckon with invisibility, self-mythmaking, and the unsettling comfort of not being known.
by Maureen Bowden
Ellie was a ghost. She was also William’s best friend. He had messed up his life and she was the only one who could help him to sort it out.
by Brett Abrahamsen
An absurdly comical tale of society’s
primitive attempts at “immortality”
by Tammy Komoff
A hole in the hedge leads a mother into the many possible lives of her three-year-old daughter, each one offering its own measure of joy, loss, and danger. As she races to keep bringing her child home, she confronts the limits of how long love can keep the future at bay.
by João Miguel Alves Ferreira
In the lantern-lit village of Eldergrove, where the dead linger as guiding lights, long-time Keeper Elara has sacrificed her own life to keep the flames burning. When a desperate young woman arrives seeking to save her mother's fading light, an ancient shadow compels Elara to confront the regrets she has long buried... and to decide whether to cling to her duty or pass the burden onward, at the cost of everything she once hoped to become.
by Wade R. DeYoung
Poem
by Ennis Rook Bashe
Poem
by David Ferguson
Being a bodyguard to a wizard was a dangerous enough job, but her own secrets might be the death of them both.
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The Lorelei Signal (ISSN: 2158-6160) is published quarterly, by WolfSinger Publications.
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