Issue 28, Autumn 2020

Description

Our journey begins under the watchful gaze of The Faery Godmother by cover artist Ashley Rose Goentoro.

• Next we step into the mists of mystery with the genre-blending ghost story ‘Man with Golden Helmet’ by featured author Renée Sarojini Saklikar.
• Continuing along, Dawn Lo in ‘Little Snowflake Girls’ and Weiwei Xu in ‘Chimaera’ introduce us to young people exploring meaningful questions of identity and belonging.
• Then, like trailside inukshuks, memories pile up and tumble away in ‘Moons of Saturn’ by James Dorr, ‘Practising the Art of Forgetting’ by Soramimi Hanarejima, and ‘Starry Nights’ by David Milne.
• And what is a walk in the literary wilds without a cheeky raccoon or the chatter of birds? AJ Lee, in ‘What Kind of Story’, and Magpie winners Charlene Kwiatkowski, Maria Ford, and Cara Waterfall delight with their bewitching words.
• Explore solutions to two very different puzzles with Susan Pieters in ‘Hoax’ and SiWC contest winner Cameron MacDonald in ‘Mourgadze’.
• Finally, on journeys of their own, fan favourites Frankie Ray and Toinette return, taking two very different leaps of faith. Whether by way of closet or carriage, keeping safe means keeping up appearances for Frankie Ray in ‘The Sleuth with the Platinum Hair’ by Mel Anastasiou and Toinette in ‘The Shepherdess: Versailles’ by JM Landels.