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Editors’ Welcome

Welcome to the The Zodiac Review, a literary magazine for discerning readers and writers of fine short fiction.

In this and in our next two issues, you will find stories of flash fiction and short story length, each selected from submissions that cross the old lines separating literary fiction from genre fiction. And here you will find prose poetry, another form of literature that crosses boundaries to tell its stories.

Among the many themes and sub-themes you may find in stories here are fate vs. free will, cosmic irony, and some of the many fascinating ways in which astrology is understood by the characters who populate the stories…subjects that expose the inscrutability of the universe and the poignancy of the human condition.

Following our Fall 2012 issue, The Zodiac Review will transition to an exclusively flash length, semi-annual publication. Please go to our Submissions page for details.

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Preview – Spring 2012
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In this issue, our third, we offer a collection of five flash length stories, six short stories and two prose poems, each piece deserving as bright a spotlight as we can shine on it. This is really fine writing...just the quality we had hoped to attract when we launched this magazine.

And attract them we do. In great numbers, authors from 6 of the 7 continents continue to submit their best. Here you will find the best of the best.

Writers and readers please note our seasonal Editors’ Choice(s), the story and/or prose poem from each issue that we feel deserve(s) a special spotlight.

Announcing this issue’s Editors’ Choices

Gregg Sapp's short story, Fu Manchu, Foo Man Choo, Man Chew Food, is one of our Choices for our Spring 2012 issue. Fu takes us on three hi-larious trips to town with a man who is taking himself on three excursions, each with a very different version of himself. Our Editors' Choice for prose poetry, the brilliantly crafted Exercises in Eloquence by V. Moriarty, offers a look at human and ape from decidedly different vantage points.

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Flash Fiction:

Short Stories:

Prose Poetry: