The Zodiac Review is an online literary magazine for friends and followers of literary/genre fiction and astrology in literature.
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You are invited to visit us to enjoy stories of flash fiction 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.
Please note: Following this Spring 2013 issue, The Zodiac Review will go on a hiatus of sorts…during which time we will maintain the magazine’s presence online but regrettably will not be able to provide the thorough feedback for submissions that writers have come to expect. And we just cannot bring ourselves to send out terse form letters, or worse, not to respond at all. To paraphrase MacArthur’s vow: We shall return. And we look forward to the day…probably in about a year…when we can paraphrase that other guy’s We’re baaaack!
Please stay with us with your visits, and leave yourselves a reminder to read many of the 75 stories and prose poems we’ve published to date.
Also, please remember to visit our Bookstore, and consider buying some of the fine books we showcase there. And our partners at newkindlebooks.com will point the way to many other good reads.
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Preview – Spring 2013 Issue
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In this issue, our fifth, we offer a collection of thirteen flash length stories and three 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 in 2011. Thanks to all readers and contributors for making Zodiac a success...as measured by the huge volume of submissions we have received, the high quality of writing we see, and the volume of readership indicated by visits to the current and archived stories pages
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In This Issue
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- Beanstalk Revised by Carly Berg
- Going Home Via The Internal Combustion Engine by Eric Blix
- Flood Victims – Man and Boy by Henry Brown
- Last Friday by Robin Wyatt Dunn
- The End of the Italian Bread by Joe Giordano
- In From the Rain by Kevin Hall..................................*Editors’ Choice*
- The Rangoon Eye by Joe Kilgore
- Forgetting the Real Paris by Stephen Koster
- A Snifter of Absinthe by Stephen V. Ramey...............*Editors’ Choice*
- And They All Lived Happily Ever After by Charles Rammelkamp....*Editors' Choice***
- Shopper’s Paradise by Rob Schultz
- Purpose by Phil Temples
- Hosea by Laura Woofitt
Prose Poetry:
- A Course by Will Dixon................................................*Editors' Choice*
- Patches of Green by Alan Reed
- Doom by Olvard Smith
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