Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52

by Kelly Link (Editor), Gavin J. Grant (Editor)

We read a lot of stories sent to us through the mail by kind and patient writers. These are the nine we liked a lot and thought you might, too. We're also happy to introduce a new columnist, Joanna Buoniconti, whose monthly columns we’ve enjoyed in our local paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Masthead & colophon Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 52. New Caledonia LT Std. Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027. info@smallbeerpress.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Contents © 2026 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration “Cactus” © 2026 Guilherme Nunes. All rights reserved. Printed by Paradise Copies. $28/4 issues. More options on our website. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional EBSCO. DRM-free ebooks ( 9781618732200) available from the lovely weightlessbooks.com Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. No AI use in any way. As ever thanks to the authors, artists, & readers. Made by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link using Affinity and Pixelmater Pro. About the Authors of the Unofficial Burn It All Down Handbook Matthew Bean plays benevolent god to some shrimps. He writes in the Iodine State. Joanna Buoniconti is a freelance writer and editor. She also has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Ash Huang has been published in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone, and elsewhere. In 2022, she won the Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and is an alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Retreat, Tin House Winter Workshop and Reading Fellowship, and the Periplus Fellowship. She is currently a Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Resident with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Nicole Kimberling thinks about cooking way too much. When she’s not wondering how to improve frozen vegetables, she is a novelist, and the editor of Blind Eye Books. Tammy Komoff was a finalist for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Uncharted, Abyss & Apex, and more. When not writing she’s usually found chasing her semi-feral daughters and their growing pack of mutts. For more information please visit  tammykomoff.com or follow her on Bluesky. Janice Leadingham is a Portland, Oregon based writer and tarot-reader originally from somewhere near Dollywood, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in the Northwest Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Tiny Molecules, Maudlin House, Flash Frog, and Best Small Fictions 2024, among others. She is a 2026 Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Pushcart, and Best American Short Stories nominee. You can find her at hagsoup.com and @thehagsoup everywhere. Guilherme Nunes is a Brazilian illustrator and content creator who primarily works on private commissions, but also does advertising for companies in his country and even Riot Games’ Wild Rift. His TikTok is one of the largest in the Brazilian art niche. He explores themes such as routines with two cats, digital anxiety, loneliness and not belonging, and fear of death with nonsensical humor. He primarily paints digitally, but also uses watercolors, acrylics, pastels, and markers in the process. Caroline Shea is the author of Lambflesh. Her work has appeared in Cold Signal Magazine, The Deadlands, and Luna Station Quarterly, among other publications. Alice St. Stirling is a writer from Western Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at PennWest, Clarion, and Chatham University. Alice is a submissions reader for Fusion Fragment. Her other fiction is featured on Thirteen Podcast. Additionally, Alice has work forthcoming from UP magazine and Menhera Post-2020.

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 7, 2026

About the author

Kelly Link is an American author best known for her short stories, which span a wide variety of genres - most notably magic realism, fantasy and horror. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

Her stories have been collected in four books - Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and most recently, Get in Trouble.
She has won several awards for her short stories, including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for "The Specialist's Hat", and the Nebula Award both in 2001 and 2005 for "Louise's Ghost" and "Magic for Beginners".

Link also works as an editor, and is the founder of independant publishing company, Small Beer Press, along with her husband, Gavin Grant.

Reviews

[Sureyya · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good collection of stories, mostly focused on LGBTQ+ women, mostly (but not all) witches.