IZ 301

In this issue: stories by David Cleden, Rachael Cupp, Philip Fracassi, Ashley Stokes, and Corey Jae White; columns by Alexander Glass, Nick Lowe, Una McCormack, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; book reviews by Zachary Gillan, Kelly Jennings, Nick Mamatas, Val Nolan, and Marian Womack; a collaboration between Dempow Torishima and Preston Grassmann; and an illustration by Martin Hanford. The cover art, Orange Slab, is by Emma Howitt.

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IZ 301 // February 2025

Stories

Orange Slab 7180 words
Ashley Stokes

The Astral Key 11,630 words
Philip Fracassi

Dawnies How the World Is (Dictated) 1430 words
Rachael Cupp

Learning to Fall 3420 words
David Cleden

Mirrored 6070 words
Corey Jae White

Columns

Climbing Stories
Aliya Whiteley

Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe

Dancing in the Library
Una McCormack

The A to Z of Zelazny
Alexander Glass

Folded Spaces
Val Nolan

Book Reviews & Interviews

Zachary Gillan on short stories by Bernardo Esquinca; Kelly Jennings on books by Delilah S. Dawson, Kerstin Hall, Yoon Ha Lee, A.D. Sui, Chuck Tingle, Django Wexler, and John Wiswell; Nick Mamatas on books by J.S. Breukelaar, Eric Brown & Keith Brooke, and Tim Major; Val Nolan on Gautam Bhatia’s The Sentence; Marian Womack on five books by Premee Mohamed; and ‘Translations of an Orbital Body or An Interview with Dempow Torishima’ by Preston Grassmann.

Art

Orange Slab
Emma Howitt

Learning to Fall
Martin Hanford