The Lorelei Signal
Edited by Carol Hightshoe
ISSN: 2158-6160
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Welcome to the Jan - Mar '26 Issue of The Lorelei Signal
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Stories in this Issue:
by Andria Kennedy
. Weaving new civilizations into the world brings Lachesis the greatest joy. Turns out her work also brings something else creative bliss-in a very different way.
by Anaqat Raschid
She died over a dozen times, but it never stuck.
Is it science or magic?
by Maureen Bowden
Simeon’s carelessness while time travelling causes a disaster. Ria vows to put it right although she knows it may take her a lifetime.
by Valerie Hunter
Poetry
by E.J. LeRoy
In the underground fight against censorship, Olivia and her trusty book bike from Retro Revolution on Wheels have seen many campaigns, getting books into the hands of people in need. But when Olivia meets a companion gynoid who has been denied access to all literature, she risks everything to ensure the robot achieves intellectual freedom.
by Gregg Chamberlain
When sibling rivalry meets forbidden magic, a father’s patience and a protective bracer are the only things standing between discipline and disaster.
by Stephanie Y. Yang
When a young apothecary’s crystal ball vanishes, a quiet town’s missing trinkets begin to form a troubling pattern.
by R.M. Linning
The wife of a celebrated artist languishes as their relationship falls by the wayside as he pursues his all-consuming obsessions. Their love is rescued by the events of one fateful evening.
by Matthew Wilson
Poetry
by Steve Horton
On the edge of Saturn’s rings, a routine ice-mining run
becomes a moment of reckoning when catastrophe leaves one pilot utterly alone
by Sherry Yuan
Lily Tao and her grandmother are the only Keepers who can enter the world of Moon Island. Unfortunately, the portal is stuck in Nanjing, forcing Lily to choose between her pleasant life in Vancouver and her Island Keeper duties in China.
by Ikechukwu Henry
As the last surviving Chloran in a dying world, Aria carries the memory of a living Earth and the unbearable weight of what has been lost.
by Brett Abrahamsen
Flash Fiction
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The Lorelei Signal (ISSN: 2158-6160) is published quarterly, by WolfSinger Publications.
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