Moon Over Tokyo, and Advertising at the End of the World

[keyan_bowes]

Two of my Clarion friends have absolutely awesome stories up this week.

Jerome Stueart's The Moon Over Tokyo through Leaves in the Fall is up at Fantasy Magazine.

Jerome is a Clarion classmate, and this was a Clarion story, and  I still recall what it felt like to read it for the first time. It's atmospheric and sad and wonderful. It's about the making of Time-Wines, which create evocations... and about a husband and wife whose lives and worlds are diverging.

There's also a great interview with Jerome in the same issue.

Keffy Kehrli, whose Advertising at the End of the World is up at Apex was also at Clarion, but in 2008. We met for the first time at Wiscon, but we'd 'met' online before that. This is the first Keffy story I've read, and I am greatly looking forward to more. It's a story that's charming and creepy simultaneously, which is quite an achievement.

And. I generally don't like post-apocalyptic stories, but I did this one. I may have to start making a compilation of exceptions. (Another was Ramsey Shehadeh's story in Strange Horizons, Jimmy's Roadside Cafe.)

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thanks!

[jeromestueart.com (from livejournal.com)]

Thanks Keyan for the nice review and promo! It'll be good to see you in October!