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The daughter of the Last American Cowboy is tasked with putting her late-father's ashes to rest, but has plans of her own. A woman wakes up after the first night with her lover to discover she's birthed a pile of maggots. The ghost of Hans Christian Andersen comforts a young girl. These short stories are haunted by the destructive, often cyclically so, power of love and fantasy."Fans of Johnson's work, namely her previous collection I'll Tell You a Love Story (Bridge Eight, 2020), might notice an anger in these stories that felt more subdued before. There is a pain that still burns-the hand pressed to the stove, a flash in the sear that has not subsided. A kind offrenetic energy carries the reader through these pieces"- Kym Cunninham, author of NEW MYTHOLOGIES and DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING

The Rainbow Cantos is a collection of two works queering western canon, featuring Kiss Me, Ahab and Gayowulf. Kiss Me, Ahab: There's mischief afoot at Sargasso State College. Alcibiades loves Ahab, but Ahab is--gasp!--straight!? What's to be done but turn to Oberon, King of the Fairies, for aid? Featuring a man-eating Lolita, lecherous professors, vampires beneath the campus, and over 400 footnotes that flip the canon on its head, this is a queer-coming of cage novella-in-verse that shakes the ivory gates of old-school academia.Gayowulf: A queer re-imagining of one of the oldest bits of the Western canon, the epic of Gayowulf unfolds with his prophesized birth and follows our intrepid hero through his fated confrontation with a devastatingly beautiful Grendel, then worse, his Mommy, all the way to the outskirts of Tokyo, where he faces off against a coke-snorting Kimono Dragon.Praise for The Rainbow Cantos: "G.R. Tomaini's The Rainbow Cantos is a wild and exuberant romp through the annals of literature from the distant to the recent past, where characters and stories from classics are brought out of the shadows of history and queered in the light of this new sun."-Christopher Barzak, author of the Stonewall Honor winning novel, Wonders of the Invisible World

Welcome to Pumpernickel House, a bi-annual journal of contemporary fairy tale, fabulism, magical realism, the strangely beautiful and the beautifully strange. Behind this door you'll find women who are birds, girls who love golems, beastly babies washed ashore by the tide, and a batch of Baba Yaga's special cookies. Get lost in the woods and stumble upon the intersection of past and future in the poetry of Jennifer Lynn Krohn, or step across our threshold and end up wandering the margins between modern Brooklyn and myth in Maya Beck's "Birdland." Pass through throne rooms of ice, hospital halls, and wedding parties, but be ever aware, Dear Reader, and keep in mind: the line between a fairy tale and a horror story is often thinner than a hair, and once you pass beyond the veil between here and elsewhere, there's no guarantee you will ever find the path to return. Featuring work by Christi Nogle, Lenny DellaRocca, GJ Gillespie, Margaret Stetz and more.