Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 48

September 2024

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Jennifer Hudak’s “The Witch Trap” is a Nebula Award finalist and will be reprinted in this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams.

Aimed for May, published in September 2024. 60 pages. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731227.

L C R W 4 x 1 x 2 x 3 x 2 x 1
or IIL
or more properly XLVIII.

Editing, partially accomplished. Stories: mostly gathered. Design TK. Proofing TK. Printing TK. Ebook TK. Distribution TK. Reading by 10.2 million people TK.

 

Reviews

“Four tales in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #48 piqued my readerly interest. ‘The Skildraffen Stitch’ by W. J. Tatersdill is a very tall tale about a knitting stitch, a lost runekey, and puffins. These elements (and more) are all suitably spun together to entertain the denizens of a fantasy pub/tavern and, of course, us readers. A couple find an Alad­dinesque lamp in a thrift store in the clever ‘Diver­gence at the Village Thrift’ by Summer Olsson. They discover their wishes for the future may not be as they wish them to be.
“Bess Lovejoy’s engaging ‘Internal Theft’ is set in 2002. A small-town newspaper reporter investi­gates a 1990 story about a huge stash of undelivered mail discovered after the death of a thirty-year postal employee named Dorothy Fairchild. What he uncovers involves the positive side of mail theft and supernatural aspects of both a model of the town and the mail hoard itself.
“An old shoe is found beneath the floorboards of an old house in the interesting ‘The Witch Trap’ by Jennifer Hudak. Told that such hidden footwear was once supposedly believed to keep witches away, homeowner Elizabeth does her research. She discov­ers the superstition was really used to trap witches rather than repel them and a great deal more.”
— Paula Guran, Locus

Dylan Haston and Becca Schneid poetry review of Rachel Ayer’s “The Soldier and Death” at the Ancillary Review of Books.

Arrived in this leapyear 2024 and containing these parts:

Fiction

Lyndsie Manusos, Mnemonic
W. J. Tattersdill, The Skildraffen Stitch
Summer Olsson, Divergence at the Village Thrift
Zebulon House, Pianoskin Boots
Victor Ladis Schultz, Tributary
Bess Lovejoy, Internal Theft
Jennifer Hudak, The Witch Trap

Poetry

Rachel Ayers, The Soldier and Death
Daniel Rabuzzi, Along the River’s Edge

Nonfiction

Gavin J. Grant, Zining
Nicole Kimberling, The Food of Sadness
Dave Myers, Howard Waldrop Fishing: The Oso Letters 1995-2002
About These Authors

Art

Deborah Mills, b&w art
Gessica Maio, cover art: “Castle Panther”

Celebrating

Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche is a finalist in the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards; Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places (& the press) being Locus Award finalists; and Naomi Mitchison being this year’s Memorial Guest of Honor at Readercon.

Masthead & colophon

Made by
Gavin J. Grant
& Kelly Link.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 48. September 2024. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731227. Text: New Caledonia LT Std. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. Thanks, Valerie. Only surreal ingredients.
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About These Authors

Rachel Ayers lives in Alaska, where she writes and hosts shows for Sweet Cheeks Cabaret. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science, which comes in handy at odd hours. The DM for her D&D group is constantly exasperated by her need for more research texts to read in her spare time, especially as they are a homebrew group. She dabbles with oil painting, knitting, and making burlesque costumes and pasties. Her fiction appears in Metaphorosis, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Radon Journal, and the anthology Fall into Fantasy; she is a regular contributor at reactor.com. She shares speculative poetry and flash fiction (and cat pictures) at patreon.com/richlayers.

Zebulon House is a white settler, born on unceded land of the Pennacook. They are the author of The psychic surgeon assists (Calamari Archive, Ink., 2024), and their work has previously appeared in ergot. and Sleepingfish. They work as a librarian, and play horror sound effects on the radio; you can find them online at zebulon-hourse.xyz.

Jennifer Hudak is a speculative fiction writer fueled mostly by tea. Her work has appeared on both the Locus and the SFWA recommended reading lists, and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Originally from Boston, she now lives with her family in Upstate New York where she teaches yoga, knits pocket-sized animals, and misses the ocean. Find out more about her at jenniferhudakwrites.com.

Nicole Kimberling has cooked so much food in her lifetime that she’s developed a philosophy around nearly every aspect of it. When she’s not putting hot meals on the table she can be found either running Blind Eye Books or procrastinating until the last possible second to finish her most recent novel. You find her on IG @the_nicole_kimberling

Bess Lovejoy is the author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses. Her fiction has also appeared in The Ghastling, while her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Atlas Obscura, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Public Domain Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle.

Gessica Maio is an illustrator. Initially trained in communication design. She works for Hermès, Fulllife, The Good Life, and Marie-Claire Magazine. In 2021, she won the Prix des Agents Associés prize and the Grand Prix Jeunes Talents prize at the Saint-Malo Comics Festival.

Lyndsie Manusos’s work has appeared in LeVar Burton Reads, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, and other publications. She lives in Indianapolis with her family, works as an indie bookseller, and writes for Book Riot. You can read more of her work at lyndsiemanusos.com.

Deborah A. Mills (she/hers) is a professional woodcarver, who trained in Norway. She has demonstrated & taught classes at the Cloisters/Metropolitan Museum, the South Street Seaport Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum. Her commissioned pieces are in many private collections. Deborah illustrated Daniel Rabuzzi’s two novels. She lives in New York City with Daniel, where they collaborate on various projects.

David E. Myers has published fiction in Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock’s and Pulphouse, and articles in the New York Review of Science Fiction and “How-To-Build an Igloo” at Gorp.com. He is a graduate and former administrator of Clarion West, has a Ph.D. in Psychology, and currently resides in Seattle. He fly-fishes when near water.

Summer Olsson is an emerging writer whose stories are threaded with loneliness, ghosts, everyday magic, and female perspectives. Besides being a writer, she works in theater as a physical comedian and puppeteer. She also works in stop motion animation, and was a Second Assistant Director on the film Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. She grew up in New Mexico and lives in Oregon.

Daniel A. Rabuzzi (he/his) has been published in, among others, Crab Creek Review, Asimov’s, Harvard Review, Abyss & Apex, Coffin Bell, Shimmer, Red Ogre Review, Goblin Fruit, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Pushcart Prize nominee. He earned degrees in the study of folklore & mythology and European history. He lives in New York City with his artistic partner & spouse, the woodcarver Deborah A. Mills.

Victor Ladis Schultz lives near Chicago. His fiction has been in various venues, including McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Chicago Quarterly Review, Barrelhouse, and Chiricú: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. He is also an editor at the Chicago Review of Books.

W. J. Tattersdill writes stories about a fantasy ferry network, others of which have been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. With Sarah Crofton, he’s co-author of League of Thieves, a kids’ choose-your-own book published by Usborne. He lives in Scotland with an assortment of strange animals and is also a teacher, critic, and musician. He’s very good at Mario Kart.

Peace in our time.