Welcome to The Deadlands
Our latest issue has fiction by Vivian Shaw, James Van Pelt, Marisca Pichette, Lavie Tidhar, Haden Cross, Nat Nguyen; poetry from Shana Ross, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Ayòdéjì Israel, River; and nonfiction from Soni Brown and Amanda Downum.
I’ve never seen ghosts interact with each other, but they might. They don’t generally pay attention to the living either, wrapped up in their loneliness or grief or whatever it is that drags them down. Marilyn Monroe said, “In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.” But I’m sure they see us and hear us. It’s just that almost all of us don’t know they’re there, so they tune us out, or they’re so wrapped up in being dead that we don’t matter.
“On the Existence of Ghosts, As If,” by James Van Pelt
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About The Deadlands
The Deadlands is a quarterly 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.