"This issue of The Future Fire features six short stories by some of the finest small press authors working today: from the deceptive and creepy colonial parable, the quietly haunting identity loss, the rolicking dark-fantasy eco-adventure, the quirky queer fairy tale, the semi-roboticized apocalyptic environmental tragedy, to the fevered and hallucinatory space-opera. There are no easy stories in here; there never are. The shit we have to deal with in this world is not addressed by patience, by being quietly civilized and hoping to earn respect. It's addressed by kicking it in the fucking teeth and shouting your demands into its bleeding mouth.
Reading for this issue reminded me why we started this magazine all those years ago: for the excitement, the unexpected, that sudden flush of recognition that Yes! This story is going in! These stories all felt so very beautiful and very damn useful, which is what we've always been looking for."
"This issue of The Future Fire features six short stories by some of the finest small press authors working today: from the deceptive and creepy colonial parable, the quietly haunting identity loss, the rolicking dark-fantasy eco-adventure, the quirky queer fairy tale, the semi-roboticized apocalyptic environmental tragedy, to the fevered and hallucinatory space-opera. There are no easy stories in here; there never are. The shit we have to deal with in this world is not addressed by patience, by being quietly civilized and hoping to earn respect. It's addressed by kicking it in the fucking teeth and shouting your demands into its bleeding mouth.
Reading for this issue reminded me why we started this magazine all those years ago: for the excitement, the unexpected, that sudden flush of recognition that Yes! This story is going in! These stories all felt so very beautiful and very damn useful, which is what we've always been looking for."