Weird Whispers Issue #1 January 2020

In this debut issue of Weird Whispers we bring you a loose theme of origins. Gwendolyn Kiste enchants us with a somber and whimsically weird tale about a strange young woman taken from the remains of a fire-torn shack she calls home and thrust into the limelight of viral social media and modeling in "The Maid from the Ash: A Life in Pictures." Kurt Fawver births emotion and chills in an ambiguous piece about a couple trying and failing to have their first born only to be haunted by the child-that-could-be in "Parturition." Todd Keisling conjures up a subtle yet terrible cosmic horror with a piece that follows a woman so desperate to have a child that she does the unthinkable to summon her own little bundle of joy from the endless void. And finally, Paul Jessup brings us the first installment in his regular "Surveying the Weird" column choosing to kick off with a focus on the weird side of winter in "Snow Weirds the World."Each piece of fiction is accompanied by extras that dig deeper into the story and its author including story notes and writing tips from the author, critical analyses of each story, and more.