HAPPY RELEASE DAY! 34 ORCHARD ISSUE 13 HAS ARRIVED!

34 Orchard Issue 13 is here!

Sooner or later, that delusion you created to make the pain of a traumatic reality feel safer, the one you created to get through it, breaks down. When the delusion you created to make the pain of a traumatic reality feel safer breaks down, it’s like being destroyed all over again.

Visit the house that won’t let you live the lie … get your copy at https://34orchard.com/issue-13/ today!

Once again, our ToC:

Cover: Leaving Las Vegas – Trisha J. Wooldridge

Boys – Jeremiah Towle

I Found a Leg Bone in My Yard – A.M. Symes

An Orca Mourns in Puget Sound – Kelsey Oliver Imanishi

September Whitecaps Whip Up in the Bay – Kate LaDew

Once in a Black Moon – Mike Deady

A Heart Broken – Míša Hejná

The Fire – Keira Reynolds

Rot – Meg Douty

Fortune Telling – MJ Vickers

Descent to the Planet of the Gremlins – J.H. Siegal

The Last Road Tripper – Andrew Majors

The Bath – Elizabeth J. Coleman

The Alligator – Christopher Hann

The Unrequited Love of the Ocean – Ray Chanteur

The Ocean is Haunted and So Am I – H.V. Patterson

Last Year – Jennifer Winston Mayette

What Sort of Angels and Why – Matthew Thomas Bernell

The Fox – Priya Evans

I Was an Irrelevant Man – Cassondra Windwalker

About kristipetersenschoonover

A ghost story writer who still sleeps with the lights on, Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies; her traditionally published books include a short story collection, THE SHADOWS BEHIND. She was the recipient of three Norman Mailer Writers Colony Residencies and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She is founding editor of the dark literary journal 34 ORCHARD, and is a board member of the New England Horror Writers, a member of the Horror Writers Association, and a proud member of the Rhode Island writer's community We Are Providence. Follow her adventures at kristipetersenschoonover.com.

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