T.A. Pratt

Meet Marla Mason--smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast....Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of the city of Felport, has a big problem. A rival is preparing a powerful spell that could end Marla's life--and, even worse, wreck her city. Marla's only chance of survival is to boost her powers with the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in San Francisco. But when she arrives there, Marla finds that the quest isn't going to be quite as cut-and-dried as she expected...and that some of the people she needs to talk to are dead. It seems that San Francisco's top sorcerers are having troubles of their own--a mysterious assailant has the city's magical community in a panic, and the local talent is being (gruesomely) picked off one by one.With her partner-in-crime, Rondeau, Marla is soon racing against time through San Francisco's alien streets, dodging poisonous frogs, murderous hummingbirds, cannibals, and a nasty vibe from the local witchery, who suspect that Marla herself may be behind the recent murders. And if Marla doesn't figure out who is killing the city's finest in time, she'll be in danger of becoming a magical statistic herself....From the Paperback edition.

"Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his former love Hind, and old friends from the leftist political circles within which he once roamed under the nom de guerre Sinalcol. By the end of his six-month stay, he has been reintroduced to the chaos of cultural, religious and political battles that continue to rage in Lebanon. Overwhelmed by the experiences of his return, Karim is forced to contemplate his identity and his place in Lebanon's history. The story of Karim and his family is born of other stories that intertwine to form an imposing fresco of Lebanese society over the past fifty years. Broken Mirrors examines the roots of an endemic civil war and a country's unsettled past"--

EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore FICTION Irregularity by Rachel Harrison We Are New(s) by Bentley A. Reese A Priest of Vast and Distant Places by Cassandra Khaw Three Petitions to the Queen of Hell by T.A. Pratt NONFICTION A Wave on the Sea: Ursula K. Le Guin by Paul Jessup Persistence of Vision: Black Panther by ZZ Claybourne Between the Lines by Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice by Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant INTERVIEWS Interview with Rachel Harrison by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Benedick Bana by Russell Dickerson