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    Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2
    Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2
    Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2
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    Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2

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    The world falls apart in reverse. Organs sold at a premium to the most vulnerable among us. A new master of the world and his willing flock. Welcome to Helios Quarterly Magazine Vol. 2, Issue 2 brimming with disillusionment and desperation.

    Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2 ePub/mobi/PDF edition. Theme: Redux & Progression

    Contains three poems, nine works of fiction, one photo, and one piece of art.

    •••

    Dazzling Simplicity, Sparkling Depth

    Helios Quarterly Magazine is a science fiction, horror, and fantasy (SF / F / H) periodical founded in 2016. Helios Quarterly aims to publish quality fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art that illuminates the darkness. HQM wants stories and poems that grab ahold of a reader from the opening lines all the way to the finish line. Works that push boundaries, are succinct, and well developed are smiled upon.

    ISSN: 2473-9189 (PRINT)

    ISSN: 2572-150X (ONLINE)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRadiant Crown Publishing, LLC
    Release dateJun 14, 2017
    Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2
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    Radiant Crown Publishing, LLC

    Established in 2016 Radiant Crown Publishing is an independent publisher of dark, diverse, and subversive speculative fiction and romance. Characters whose stories are pushed to the margins are welcome here. RCP primarily promotes upper middle grade, young adult, and eclectic adult fiction. We accept poetry, narrative nonfiction, and art for our full-color anthologies, annual chapbook award, and literary magazines.

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      Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2 - Radiant Crown Publishing, LLC

      Helios Quarterly Magazine

      Volume 2, Issue 2 • June, 2017

      "Without struggle, there can be no progress" – Frederick Douglass

      Publisher/Editor-in-Chief:

      Elizabeth O. Smith

      Head Serial Fiction Editor:

      Britny Brooks

      Head Poetry Editor:

      Reiss McGuinness

      Proofreader:

      Abbie Waters

      Cover Art:

      Ride the desert © Tommaso Renieri (http://tommasorenieri.deviantart.com/)

      Contributors:

      Editor’s Corner

      Future’s Past by Elizabeth O. Smith

      Poetry

      The Tower (Coup de Foudre) by Nina Kaye

      Mantic Rabbit Talks to a Tree at Sundown Day by Ethan J. Cole

      Interdependence Day by Karen L. Kanter

      Always Watching 4 by Rabban

      Fiction

      Idyll of the Chiroptera by Todd H. C. Fischer

      Burn by Gareth Gray

      Port of Call by Meredith Rose Schorr

      Levels for Sustainable Living by Leo X. Robertson

      Glitch by George Spisak

      Pause, Reset, Repeat by Michael McGlade

      Eos•Quarterly

      Lifetime Guarantee by Kevin Holton + Interview

      Journey by Chlo’e Camonayan

      Serial Fiction

      Red Tide Rising by Sara Codair (Part 2 of 2)

      Saudade by Jason Mykl Snyman (Part 1 of 2)

      Colophon

      •••

      Editor’s Corner: Future’s Past

      Elizabeth O. Smith

      Welcome to Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 2. I can't believe we are halfway through the year! Time sure flies. Britny, Reiss, and I have been hard a work crafting Volume 2, Issue 2, and we are happy to be seeing the fruits of our labor. We are also pleased to welcome Abbie Waters, who has recently joined Radiant Crown Publishing and will be proofreading Helios Quarterly and its upcoming sister publication Selene Quarterly. This issue features the first Eos•Quarterly writer who identifies as disabled, and tackles issues of the future in the broadest sense of the term.

      We hope we can address how far we have come and how far we still have to go. Speculative fiction is a personal passion of mine because of the political messages it can convey, and the sheer wonder it inspires. When these two forces are combined, I think it offers complex yet gripping tales of where we are heading to and who is being left behind in the process. I believe that we can make the future more accessible, more fantastical, and more equitable by evaluating our past mistakes and trying our hardest not to project them onto a distant society.

      The theme Redux & Progression hopefully offers a glimpse into future's past. We, as humans, tend not to learn. We strive for greatest but fall into the same old traps. Let us dream up a new way to live and move forward together.

      Cheers and enjoy!

      The Tower (Coup de Foudre)

      Nina Kaye

      If you ever do make love to me –

      discovering your passion in a torrent of confession –

      it will be a dam bursting,

      and your words will take on a life of their own,

      running free and wild until you have no hope of catching them.

      If I ever do make love to you –

      uncovering my passion in a torrent of consummation –

      it will be a dam bursting,

      and my sighs will take on a life of their own,

      running free and wild until I have no hope of catching them.

      I will feel your words in my body,

      fill with joy

      and be yours.

      You will hear my sighs in your mind,

      empty with joy

      and be mine.

      This tumultuous joining

      will be a tower struck by lightning –

      a revelation, a collapse, an outpouring, a conflagration –

      and in the stillness after

      we will rebuild. 

      •••

      BIO: Nina Kaye is a Toronto-based playwright and poet who has published essays and poetry with publications including Transverse; Canadian Women’s Studies; and gutterbird. Her plays have been produced in Toronto, Washington, and New York and have won awards with Hart House Players, Panfish Productions, and NuVoices.  She holds a Master’s degree in Drama from the University of Toronto and is the Artistic Director of Unspoken Theatre Company.

      Mantic Rabbit Talks to a Tree at Sundown Day

      Ethan J. Cole

      I never noticed how leggy

      your seven elegant trunks are,

      that change from stained ivory

      to white

      as they rise and burst

      into fresh green fire.

      Mister Mantic, we stand on street corners

      like hookers, we stand on stages like strippers,

      waving our dendritic tits and cocks for free, for free!

      People turn their backs in shame

      lest a cop think they might

      invite me into their cars.

      They avert their gaze

      lest their parents smirk

      at their crossed legs

      or their crossed hands,

      hiding what they've tucked into waistbands—

      lest their wives or husbands

      think I made their sap rise

      There have been women who hear my voice

      like a tenor riff from a jazz saxophone

      and had their panties

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