From award-winning author Lynda Clark come sixteen engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, fantasy and speculative fiction, all of them in Clark's darkly humorous style. In ' Ghillie's Mum', shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form, or lose her son. In ' Total Transparency', the protagonist is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In ' Blanks', people are paying to create clones of themselves so they will never die. And in ' Dreaming in Quantum', there's a murder to be solved which echoes through dimensions only accessible in dreams.

When Robert decides to impress at a job interview by making up a son, he discovers that maintaining the lie is far harder than he thought – so he invents a story that ‘Brodie’ has been kidnapped. After all, it’s not like they’re going to find the fake boy. But a few weeks later, Robert receives a call to collect his nonexistent son from the police station, a boy who looks exactly like the picture he photoshopped…

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #9 includes 10 short stories and one graphic story: "Thomas Lynne" - Jordan Taylor "When Angels Wear Butterfly Wings" - Stone Showers "Sea Found" - L R Hieber "Fountain" - Lynda Clark "Beneath the Raven's Wing" - Rebecca Birch "Exit Strategy" - Shane Halbach "Where the Millennials Went" - Zach Lisabeth "Scents of Life" - Robert Lowell Russell "The Parting Gift" - Hall Jameson "Shamrock - Part 4 - Hero's Scream" - Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez In the non-fiction section, this issue features: Interview with Author Michael R. Underwood Interview with Author L R Hieber Artist Spotlight: Jessica TC Lee Science Corner: Black Holes and Academic Walls Book Review: Half a War (Joe Abercrombie) Book Review: Updraft (Fran Wilde) Movie Review: Pay The Ghost (Uli Edel) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

Including the winning story, 'The Invisible' by Jo Lloyd! A young boy takes delight in his mother’s ability to shapeshift from one animal to another, only realising how odd she is when it comes to parents’ evening . . . The values of a small farming village are challenged by talk of a well-heeled community living on the other side of the lake that only one person can see . . . A writer researching the life of a 19th century child custody reformer discovers all too many parallels between that century and ours . . . The stories shortlisted for the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University variously explore the sanctity of the home and family, and the instinct to defend what’s closest to us. Against a backdrop of danger or division, characters sometimes struggle – like the 15-year-old charged with looking after her siblings whilst her mother works through the night – and sometimes succumb – like the young woman who allows herself to be manipulated by an older, richer man. But in each case, these stories demonstrate what Nikki Bedi argues in her introduction: short stories are not a warm-up act, they’re the main event. 'Bright examples of what it means to write short fiction, and to write it well.' - STORGY 'As ever, the BBC National Short Story Award has an intriguing shortlist... The winner is an entirely beguiling story' - Daily Mail

This book tells the true story of a World War II Veteran and Patriot,Richard E. Clark. His life journey is told through the tapestry of his vibrant artworks, his heartfelt speeches, his vivid descriptions, and through the voice of his loving daughter.While a soldier in World War II, Richard documented both his personal journey and of TheOdyssey of the 95th Victory Division with his maps, sketches and watercolors often painted undernighttime skies, lit by the dim light and din of distant bombings.

For many of us, the ocean is our first true encounter with infinity. It extends past the horizon, leaving the imagination to ponder what lies beyond what we can clearly see. And what lies beneath. What terrors live below the sea's waves? What monsters lurk in the dark fathoms of Earth's waters? Where there is mystery, there is horror.