Thrilled to announce that 34 Orchard Issue 11 is now available!

In Issue 11, a frustrated Frito-Lay worker indulges the alternate reality he’s spent years avoiding, and an Alaskan detective’s fresh beginning in the City of Angels might have more to do with endings than he’d expected.  A retiring Christmas elf forced to break tradition discovers that no sacrifice he makes will avoid disaster. A crooked prospector refuses an honest life out of fear, a paramedic must accept that she cannot change people’s fates, and a soon-to-be park ranger in a South American forest finds her employment aspirations require giving up more than she may be willing.

As a bonus, this issue also includes a tribute to The Sirens Call and Orca, two publications who closed their doors and will be dearly missed (written by yours truly).

Don’t skip the visit to the yard where the leaves are better left undisturbed … get your copy at https://34orchard.com/issue-11/ today!

Once again, the ToC:

Cover: The Unwritable Entry – Walter H. Von Egidy

The Mirror Stage – Dana Wall

All the Pretty Reindeer – Stetson Ray

Fault/Forgiveness – Sarah Cannavo

Late-Night Calls – Amanda Bintz

Change in the House of Flies – Kai R. Hastur

What Hansel and Gretel Never Told You – Kristina Hals

Our Special Games – J.J. House

Origami – Yong Takahashi

I No Longer Work for Frito-Lay – Preston Lang

Lucy’s Treacherous Silence – Marcelo Medone

H.G. Wells on New Year’s Eve – Attar Topobroto

Progress – Teresa Sanchez-Reyes

Best Meal of the Day – LM Fontanes

Interior Design – Victoria Nordlund

Kintsugi – Michael Takeda

Fragment of Glassy Black Material – Sarah Jackson

Fool’s Gold – Keira Reynolds

Pinus taeda – Andrea Ferrari Kristeller

Faith – Richard Brush, Sr.

Talisman – Temidayo Temiloluwa

It’s Electric – C.R. Langille

Editor’s Reflection – On the Loss of The Sirens Call and Orca