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All Worlds Wayfarer: Issue 18
Explore Evocative Imagined Realities
All Worlds Wayfarer is a quarterly literary magazine specializing in character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. We celebrate stories that take readers on tours through wonderful and terrifying realms, evocative visions, and eye-opening new lives. When our readers come home, they should return ever so slightly changed for having made the journey. After all, the most powerful stories transcend, enlighten, and entertain at once.
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” -Plato
Our vernal equinox 2024 issue—one about discovering what you want from life as much as about discovering new wonders and horrors—includes 13 stories spanning the speculative fiction spectrum:
Small Talk At The Edge Of The World by Thrassos Bogiatzer
"'Dude,' Peter said softy, picking up his thermos full of coffee. 'We’re looking at the final frontier. How you can you be so grumpy?'"
Cryptobiosis in Sugar and Lemon by Laura Blackwell
"Sometimes there isn’t any explanation for how somebody gets where they are and how they survive it."
Sailing Home by Wayne Faust
"They had been lost, drifting on an endless sea, both delirious with fever. How long had it been since then? Ten days? One month? Two months? There seemed to be no passing of time any more."
The Last Leg by Jason P. Burnham
"The kiosk responded plaintively: 'There is no Dock #4 on this station.'"
Witches Upon the Mountain by Ben Williams
"'Sister, we are exactly where we want to be,' Narsa said."
A star, a stone, a sculpture, a sculptor by JM Cyrus
"Autumn held the liberated crystal level with her eyes, staring at the shooting stars and fireworks within."
A Gift of Sweetness and Spice by Myna Chang
"Once in a lifetime, so the story goes, the twin moons of Sweetness and Spice rise together in the night sky."
"Asbury Park: October 1976" by Caitlin A. Quinn
"After all she’s been through in this life, doesn’t she deserve some happy ever after? Some true romance in her eternity? But something’s always wrong in these simulations."
Tranquil Waters by Maureen Bowden
"The pond sucked me down into its depths, but I was able to breathe and I felt no panic. This must be a dream. Fair enough."
Small Passengers by JL George
"They daydreamed, sometimes, of covering their own limbs with pictures—curling vines and bright-hued insects and a whole jungle of different animals—but then there would be no space for their clients."
The Whale Roads in the Stars by Rebecca Harrison
"I waved goodbye to the ocean when it left."
The Little Men by L. Ann Kinyon
"This, too: where the dog tooth lilies and pink and purple violas grow, where the creek is shallow and slow, there the little men stay. No one sees them but me."
The Nightmare Peddler by Läilä Örken
"You will never see his face because it’s empty."
Down in the Wreck of the Promise by Sarah Jackson
"'I believe they’re the ones who were born on The Promise and died here too, before we arrived. The middle generations.” She looked around the room. 'This is the only world they ever knew.'"
Drawn to Wonder by Austin Jacques
"Drawing was my refuge, a way to feel something more."
This Kindle Edition will also include an exclusive bonus story by one of the editors.
Venture beyond the mundane with the best of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and magical realism.
All Worlds Wayfarer is a quarterly literary magazine specializing in character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. We celebrate stories that take readers on tours through wonderful and terrifying realms, evocative visions, and eye-opening new lives. When our readers come home, they should return ever so slightly changed for having made the journey. After all, the most powerful stories transcend, enlighten, and entertain at once.
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” -Plato
Our vernal equinox 2024 issue—one about discovering what you want from life as much as about discovering new wonders and horrors—includes 13 stories spanning the speculative fiction spectrum:
Small Talk At The Edge Of The World by Thrassos Bogiatzer
"'Dude,' Peter said softy, picking up his thermos full of coffee. 'We’re looking at the final frontier. How you can you be so grumpy?'"
Cryptobiosis in Sugar and Lemon by Laura Blackwell
"Sometimes there isn’t any explanation for how somebody gets where they are and how they survive it."
Sailing Home by Wayne Faust
"They had been lost, drifting on an endless sea, both delirious with fever. How long had it been since then? Ten days? One month? Two months? There seemed to be no passing of time any more."
The Last Leg by Jason P. Burnham
"The kiosk responded plaintively: 'There is no Dock #4 on this station.'"
Witches Upon the Mountain by Ben Williams
"'Sister, we are exactly where we want to be,' Narsa said."
A star, a stone, a sculpture, a sculptor by JM Cyrus
"Autumn held the liberated crystal level with her eyes, staring at the shooting stars and fireworks within."
A Gift of Sweetness and Spice by Myna Chang
"Once in a lifetime, so the story goes, the twin moons of Sweetness and Spice rise together in the night sky."
"Asbury Park: October 1976" by Caitlin A. Quinn
"After all she’s been through in this life, doesn’t she deserve some happy ever after? Some true romance in her eternity? But something’s always wrong in these simulations."
Tranquil Waters by Maureen Bowden
"The pond sucked me down into its depths, but I was able to breathe and I felt no panic. This must be a dream. Fair enough."
Small Passengers by JL George
"They daydreamed, sometimes, of covering their own limbs with pictures—curling vines and bright-hued insects and a whole jungle of different animals—but then there would be no space for their clients."
The Whale Roads in the Stars by Rebecca Harrison
"I waved goodbye to the ocean when it left."
The Little Men by L. Ann Kinyon
"This, too: where the dog tooth lilies and pink and purple violas grow, where the creek is shallow and slow, there the little men stay. No one sees them but me."
The Nightmare Peddler by Läilä Örken
"You will never see his face because it’s empty."
Down in the Wreck of the Promise by Sarah Jackson
"'I believe they’re the ones who were born on The Promise and died here too, before we arrived. The middle generations.” She looked around the room. 'This is the only world they ever knew.'"
Drawn to Wonder by Austin Jacques
"Drawing was my refuge, a way to feel something more."
This Kindle Edition will also include an exclusive bonus story by one of the editors.
Venture beyond the mundane with the best of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and magical realism.
153 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 12, 2024
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About the author
Rowan Rook
47 books26 followersRowan is an agender, asexual, and aromantic speculative fiction author and freelance editor. As a child, they dreamily dictated stories to adults and sat at their family's old typewriter, pounding at the keys to enjoy the sensation of them beneath their fingers. They've never lost that sense of wonder. Rowan aims to craft stories that evoke ideas, create experiences, and leave behind lingering emotions.
Aside from writing, they find joy in game design, heavy music, fiction podcasts, technology, and animals. They currently room with three cats and a collie dog, who keep them company during their daily battles with the blank page. As a night person, the majority of their novels emerge under moonlight. They write from a big, lakeside house on a rural island while dreaming of the city.
Aside from writing, they find joy in game design, heavy music, fiction podcasts, technology, and animals. They currently room with three cats and a collie dog, who keep them company during their daily battles with the blank page. As a night person, the majority of their novels emerge under moonlight. They write from a big, lakeside house on a rural island while dreaming of the city.
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