{"id":200,"date":"2011-07-27T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2011-07-27T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:15:35","slug":"mystic-signals-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Mystic Signals Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing in the vein of finally getting around to reading magazines that have my stories in them, I recently finished Issue 10 of Mystic Signals<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 At least I finished this one before the new issue was out!\u00c2\u00a0 Mystic Signals<\/em> is a print compilation of all the stories that have appeared in the two most recent issues of online magazines\u00c2\u00a0Sorcerous Signals<\/em> and The Lorelei Signal<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s available from Amazon<\/a>, but you can also read it for free at the link above.<\/p>\n

Each issue of Mystic Signals<\/em>, a quarterly publication, features two “print-exclusive” stories in addition to the online content of the parent magazines, and my story “The Shoemaker’s Daughter” was one of these.\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite story in the issue I read was the other print-only story:\u00c2\u00a0 “The Exchange Box”, by Terry W. Ervin.\u00c2\u00a0 Sallie is a single mother on welfare who’s offered a chance at some quick, legal money.\u00c2\u00a0 All she has to do is place her hand into a mysterious box.\u00c2\u00a0 But each encounter with the box\u00c2\u00a0comes at\u00c2\u00a0a cost, and it’s not clear to Sallie whether the force connected to the box is generous or malevolent.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked how the box’s true nature remained ambiguous until the very end of the story; I didn’t know which way it was going to turn out.\u00c2\u00a0 And I also liked the compassionate but also realistic portrayal of how difficult it is even for intelligent, well-intentioned people to pull themselves out of poverty, even with a stroke of unnaturally good fortune.<\/p>\n

I also liked Lauren LeBano’s “The Strawberry Banshee”, about an unpopular teenage girl and the dangerous creature she harbors; and “On the Reproductive Habits of Elves”, by Edward W. Robertson, an entertaining examination of why long-lived elves seem to have so few children, and whether everything about elven culture is all that it appears to be.<\/p>\n

Issue 10 of Mystic Signals<\/em> is still available, if you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing in the vein of finally getting around to reading magazines that have my stories in them, I recently finished Issue 10 of Mystic Signals.\u00c2\u00a0 At least I finished this one before the new issue was out!\u00c2\u00a0 Mystic Signals is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,101,51],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-published-fiction","category-reviews","category-short-fiction-2","tag-short-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}