Spark A Creative Anthology Vol 6 Author:Brian Lewis (Editor) Spark is a quarterly anthology and accompanying writing contest dedicated to fostering emerging talent with participation from industry professionals. Established writers and editors serve as guest judges for each contest, and the new stars who shine the brightest are featured here. — From the foreword by Goodloe Byron: The stories in this issue ... more »are fables. They are lies and departures from the world. But these lies are attempts by their authors to move the audience with an ancient literary arithmetic. They are also attempts to speak to you; to communicate with you and show you some ideas that they have or what they care about. Sometimes literature can be just as simple as that.
Contents:
Cover art by Goodloe Byron; Illustrations by Paul Pederson
Foreword (Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume VI) • essay by Goodloe Byron
The Frog Who Swallowed the Moon / shortstory by Renee Carter Hall; interior artwork by Paul Pederson
Crawdad • poem by Robert Menegus
Migration Patterns of the Striped Eastern Mallard / shortstory by Kat Alexander; interior artwork by Paul Pederson
Honey • poem by Todd Walton
How Tigers Got Their Stripes / shortstory by Tom Howard; interior artwork by Paul Pederson
Carlota's Thrush • poem by Linda Simone
The Familiar and His Alchemist / shortstory by Jeff Suwak; interior artwork by Paul Pederson
All That Never Happens / short story by George Wells
Esmeralda / short story by Heather D. Boyd
The Day It Rained Stones • poem by Kristine Ong Muslim
Lyric / novelette by Llanwyre Laish
Subject Stellar / shortstory by Alexis A. Hunter
To Kill the Stars / shortstory by Daniel Rosen; interior artwork by Paul Pederson
Edyn the Monk / short story by Arley Sorg
Mortimer's Sanctuary, and What He Found There / short story by Sean Gill
Heaven Is a Howl Away / shortstory by Christine Darcas; interior artwork by Paul Pederson