I sit around and mentally poke my gray matter, trying to come up with new ideas for magazine themes. I write them all down and put them aside for a day or two, like a vintner who has picked fresh grapes off the vine. I return to these ideas in due time and see which ones have ripened and which ones have grown so spoiled a cockroach would gag on them.
One of the recent choice fruits was the idea for a Steampunk-Plus-Monsters issue. I mean, I liked the idea, and I hoped that the writers who find this little magazine on Duotropes, or from the web would would like it, too.
They did.
I received some very good stories for this issue.
I hope readers of The Were-Traveler will like them, too.
Issue #10: The Little Magazine of Magnificent Monsters
A Tinker’s Damn, by K.R. Smith (flash)
The Innocence Machine, by Rhonda Eikamp (drabble)
The Silver Scarab, by Dana Wright (short story)
The Mission, by Iulian Ionescu (micro-fiction)
The Main Attraction, by Reed Beebe (drabble)
The Samson Museum, by Matthew Pegg (micro-fiction)
Sparks and Dark, by Kate Morrow (flash)
