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Issue 31 of The Deadlands contains original fiction from Rachael K. Jones, Margaret Dunlap, Steve Toase, and E.E. Cypher, poetry from Ali Trotta, Hana Gammon, and Shantell Powell, and nonfiction from Shreejita Majumder.
We erupt into the world of ghosts like ink congealing through water. There is a moment when I think we won’t have any form before we become coarse grey fabric.
You’re probably imagining us hidden, memories of when you wore costume sheets as a child, but our bodies became the cloth, thread thin and creased when we moved. Our eyes are rough-cut holes edged in torn stitches. To look at us you might think the cloth hides death-whitened limbs. There are no limbs anymore. Jessica and I have become the garments of death in a place where the deceased gather.
Crumpled by Steve Toase
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About The Deadlands
The Deadlands is a monthly speculative fiction magazine. We publish short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It is an adventure into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d like to peek at the map before we go.