Authors: Anthony Boulanger,Silvia Moreno-Garcia,Paula R. Stiles
Tags: #science fiction, #horror, #cthulhu, #anthology, #lovecraft
BIG BRO
By Arlene J. Yandug
Arlene J. Yandug
was born in Bukidnon, a region in the southern part of the Philippines. She teaches literature at Xavier University; paints blooms, clouds and stardust. Like her paintings, many of her poems reflect local colour and landscapes. While generally cheery, she sometimes dabbles in surreal writing, especially after reading grim or gothic books, or when she is terribly, terribly upset.
His darkest thoughts
Grow wings and tails,
And roost
In he middle of our mind’s
Eye
Watching the dust
of our names
in the wake of our own thoughts,
crawling out
through the cracks of cubicles.
Lest they leave footprints on the floor,
they march tiptoeing
on the ceiling
huddling around, distended
like the bellies of question marks.
The keys jingle in his pockets
As he slithers across the room,
His filmy eyes behind
thick glasses
trace for shadows of doubts,
uncertainties,
The littlest disarray of thoughts.
As he sloughs his skin
Once more, renewing
His potent poison, testing the limit
Of his strength,
We are on the point
Of breaking
Into a million shards of silence.
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Anthony Boulanger “Une journée et une nuit en Providence” [“A Day and a Night in Providence”]. Copyright © 2010 Anthony Boulanger. First printed in
Ecosystématique de fin de monde.
Jesse Bullington “The Door from Earth”. Copyright © 2011 Jesse Bullington.
Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso “Last Man Standing”. Copyright © 2011 Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso.
Bobby Cranestone, “TriTV”. Copyright © 2011 Bobby Cranestone.
Sean Craven “Deep Blue Dreams”. Copyright © 2011 Sean Craven.
Tucker Cummings “Concerning the Last Days of the Colony at New Roanoke”. Copyright © 2011 Tucker Cummings.
Andrew Dombalagian “Exhibit at the National Anthropology Museum in Tombouctou”. Copyright © 2011 Andrew Dombalagian.
James S. Dorr, “Dark of the Moon”. Copyright © 2002 James S. Dorr. First printed in
The Children of Cthulhu
.
Mae Empson “A Welcome Sestina from Cruise Director Isabeau Molyneux”. Copyright © 2011 Mae Empson.
Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas “Tloque Nahuaque”. Copyright © 2011 Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas.
Orrin Grey, “Labyrinth of Sleep”. Copyright © 2011 Orrin Grey.
Martha Hubbard “The Library Twins and the Nekrobees”. Copyright © 2011 Martha Hubbard.
Ada Hoffmann “Harmony Amid the Stars”. Copyright © 2011 Ada Hoffmann
Paul Jessup “PostFlesh”. Copyright © 2010 Paul Jessup. First printed in
Apex Magazine
.
Leigh Kimmel “The Damnable Asteroid”. Copyright © 2011 Leigh Kimmel.
Meddy Ligner, “Trajectory of a Cursed Spirit”. Copyright © 2011 Meddy Ligner.
Nick Mamatas “Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Nyarlathotep”. Copyright © 2011 Nick Mamatas.
Helen Marshall, “Skin”. Copyright © 2011 Helen Marshall.
Michael Matheson “Rubedo, An Alchemy of Madness”. Copyright © 2011 Michael Matheson.
Maria Mitchell “The Kadath Angle”. Copyright © 2011 Maria Mitchell.
Luso Mnthali “People are Reading What You are Writing”. Copyright © 2011 Luso Mnthali.
Mari Ness “Do Not Imagine”. Copyright © 2011 Mari Ness.
Peter Rawlik, “In the Hall of the Yellow King”. Copyright © 2011 Peter Rawlik.
Pamela Rentz “Lottie Versus The Moon Hopper”. Copyright © 2011 Pamela Rentz.
Julio Toro San Martin, “Iron Footfalls”. Copyright © 2011 Julio Toro San Martin.
Ann K. Schwader “In This Brief Interval”. Copyright © 2011 Ann K. Schwader.
Robyn Seale, “Dolly in the Window”. Copyright © 2011 Robyn Seale.
Randy Stafford “The Old 44th”. Copyright © 2011 Randy Stafford.
Molly Tanzer “Go, Go, Go, Said the Byakhee”. Copyright © 2011 Molly Tanzer.
E. Catherine Tobler “Myristica-fragrans”. Copyright © 2011 E. Catherine Tobler.
Deborah Walker, “Phoenix Woman”. Copyright © 2011 Deborah Walker.
Don Webb “A Comet Called Ithaqua ”. Copyright © 1994 Don Webb. First printed in
Cyber Pyschos AOD
.
Jen White “A Cool, Private Place”. Copyright © 2011 Jen White.
A.C. Wise, “Venice Burning”. Copyright © 2011 A.C. Wise.
Bryan Thao Worra “Deep Ones”. Copyright © 2007 Bryan Thao Worra. First printed in
On the Other Side of the Eye
.
Arlene J. Yandug “Big Bro”. Copyright © 2011 Arlene J. Yandug.
Lee Clark Zumpe, “Transmigration”. Copyright © 2011 Lee Clark Zumpe.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s
stories have appeared in places such as
Fantasy Magazine
,
The Book of Cthulhu
,
Evolve 2
and
Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction
. She’s even been nominated for a literary award or two...and won some of them. Find her at:
silviamoreno-garcia.com
.
***
Paula R. Stiles
has sold a heap and a peck of stories in speculative fiction, as well as a horror novel,
The Mighty Quinn
(due out in 2012 from Dark Continents Publishing) and a cowritten urban fantasy novel,
Fraterfamilas
(from Innsmouth Free Press). She is also Editor-in-Chief of Innsmouth Free Press. You can find her at:
http://thesnowleopard.net
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Future is Lovecraft
In the Hall of the Yellow King
Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Nyarlathotep
People Are Reading What You Are Writing
The Library Twins and the Nekrobees
A Day and a Night in Providence
A Welcome Sestina from Cruise Director Isabeau Molyneux
Concerning the Last Days of the Colony at New Roanoke