The Arcanist, Year Two

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The Arcanist is a weekly speculative fiction magazine that specializes in bite-sized stories that make them easy for readers to devour on the go, before bed, or when they have a spare moment. The Arcanist: Year Two is a collection of over 50 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories that all clock in at 1,000 words or fewer. In this edition, we see stories of love, self-exploration, heroism, danger, longing, and everything in between. Year Two is introduced by Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack! and the acclaimed short story collection The Miniature Wife. Here's an excerpt:"For two years, now, The Arcanist has been cultivating, collecting, and curating new short and flash speculative fiction, and has now published its Year Two anthology full of over fifty stories from speculative writers from around the world. This is work that places one foot in genre and another foot firmly in the world of good writing, complex characters, real-life consequences, and beautifully-rendered otherlands.Since its launch, The Arcanist has stood out as a safe harbor for brilliant, emerging writers who have found their way to writing plot-filled stories that contain magic, future tech, ghosts, talking dogs, talking unicorns, but also gor-geous, often-times lyrical writing, nuanced and complex characters. The Arcanist has deftly melded the worlds of genre and literature to great effect by devoting itself to writing both fantastic and fantastical, to stories full of literary craft, and investment in the beauty of language, yet still manage to create a thrilling reading experience like the ones I remember from when I was a kid."Purchase of this collection helps us pay our writers and keep the lights on. If you'd like to support even more, please consider becoming a Patron on Patreon.com/TheArcanists. If you liked these stories, check out our weekly fiction podcast, Tales From The Arcanist, on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Have a great story to tell? Visit TheArcanist.IO for weekly free fiction and details on how you can submit your story. Thanks for reading!