{"id":270,"date":"2012-02-17T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-02-17T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:34:32","slug":"aoifes-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Aoife’s Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently finished reading my contributor’s copy of Aoife’s Kiss<\/a><\/em>, which features my story “The Kiss of the Blood-Red Pomegranate”.\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite story was Rachel Zakuta’s “Memory of Snow”, an urban fantasy\u00c2\u00a0retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen”.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve always found “The Snow Queen” the most compelling of Andersen’s stories, and I thought Zakuta’s version worked both as an homage and as its own story, with Gerda having to rescue her younger brother from under the spell of their magically-gifted mother in Canada.<\/p>\n

Aoife’s Kiss<\/em> also published poetry.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not sure I read enough poetry to be a good judge, but I loved V. Shirley Valencia’s poem “The Stray They Brought Inside”, printed on the back cover of the magazine.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a beautifully written poem,\u00c2\u00a0the speculative element both subtle and integral to the piece.<\/p>\n

I also\u00c2\u00a0enjoyed\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0“Wolves”, by Laura DeHaan, a retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” with a clever twist; and Chris Ward’s “Happy Shopping”, a satirical science fiction piece about the future of consumerism (you can read Chris Ward’s story and V. Shirley Valencia’s poem for free at the Aoife’s Kiss<\/em> website<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I really like the diversity of fiction Aoife’s Kiss<\/em> publishes, everything from steampunk to historical romantic fantasy, to hard science fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 They have great cover art, too, this month’s by April Bullard.<\/p>\n

Aoife’s Kiss<\/em> is also the only magazine that both Donald<\/a> and I have appeared in, so far.\u00c2\u00a0 Donald’s story “A Stranger in the Library” appeared back in Issue 23, December 2007.<\/p>\n

The magazine\u00c2\u00a0comes out in print four times a year, in March, June, September, and December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently finished reading my contributor’s copy of Aoife’s Kiss, which features my story “The Kiss of the Blood-Red Pomegranate”.\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite story was Rachel Zakuta’s “Memory of Snow”, an urban fantasy\u00c2\u00a0retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow … 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":[101,51],"tags":[139,178,175,177,174,179,173,176],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-short-fiction-2","tag-aoifes-kiss","tag-chris-ward","tag-hans-christian-andersen","tag-laura-dehaan","tag-rachel-zakuta","tag-short-fiction-reviews","tag-the-kiss-of-the-blood-red-pomegranate","tag-v-shirley-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}