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Vastarien Vol. 6 No. 1

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GRIMSCRIBE PRESS 2023

Jon Padgett, Editor-In-Chief

Paula D. Ashe, Daniel Braum, Alex Jennings, Associate Editors

My previous reviews of this literary journal: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/vastarien/

Cover art by Jesse Peper, with internal illustrations by Peper, Carl Lavoie, and Karolina Choiński. 

Written work by Romana Lockwood, Christi Nogle, Brian Evenson, Laura Cranehill, S.P. Miskowski, Tim Waggoner, Baphomet Tripp, Paula D. Ashe, Corey Farrenkopf, Jacob Derin, Marissa van Uden, Pamela Durgin, Karley Pardue, Richard Snowden-Leak, Ukata Edwardson, Andrew Koury, Christa Carmen, Patrick Hurley, Serena Jayne, Simon Lee-Price, Nadia Shammas, Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, Paul L. Bates, Dr. Raymond Thoss, Dejan Ognjanović.

Although I have retired from most reviewing after 15 years of doing it, I am keeping up with my regular independent relationships, such as with whole Vastariens, and with new single stories in anthologies and collections by writers whom I have reviewed before. Please keep me informed of the latter.

Who knows, I may one day come out of such retirement and start obsessively gestalt reviewing whole books again!

When I read this issue of Vastarien, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

All Living Writers Listed – by Aye Eye

A huge project started in the earlier days of AI Art availability.

Links to AI visual experiments as triggered by my gestalt real-time reviews since 2008.

PLEASE SEE THE LIST OF ALL THE MANY LINKS HERE

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Each image is clickable and available as a separate enlarged one.

All seemingly inspired by WIMSATT’S INTENTIONAL FALLACY / DES LEWIS GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWS / NEMONYMOUS / PARTHENOGENETIC LATE-LABELLING / THE SYNCHRONISED SHARDS OF RANDOM TRUTH AND FICTION (WEIRDMONGER)

EDIT (February 2024)— It was exactly a year ago I started experimenting with AI Visual Art, little knowing what I was entering. There was indeed much stimulation in triggering shifting collages from my gestalt real-time reviews of individual authors. But that was then, and now is now. From today, I no longer have this facility.

 

Looming Low, Vol. 2

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DIM SHORES 2023

Kurt Fawver – “Radius Unknown”

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro – “Undo”

Brian Evenson – “Vigil in the Inner Room”

Michael Kelly – “Dead but Dreaming Still”

Gwendolyn Kiste – “To the Progeny Forsaken”

Anya Martin – “The Other Cat”

Clint Smith – “Lovenest”

Jeffrey Thomas – “Strangler Fig”

Simon Strantzas – “Still Packed”

Brooke Warra – “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”

Michael Griffin – “We Spend Weekends With Dad”

Matthew M. Bartlett – “The Cryptic Jape”

Craig Laurance Gidney – “Impz”

Cody Goodfellow – “Protect & Serve”

David Peak – “Zones Without Names”

Erica Ruppert – “Ex Astris”

Richard Gavin – “The Intercessor”

Kaaron Warren – “Songs We Sing at Sea”

S.P. Miskowski – “Across the Darkness”

A.C. Wise – “Into the Green”

Gemma Files – “Bb Minor”

Nadia Bulkin – “Your Heart is a House on Fire

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My review of Looming Low, Vol. 1: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/looming-low/

WHEN I READ THIS BOOK, MY THOUGHTS WILL APPEAR IN THE COMMENT STREAM BELOW…

Nox Pareidolia

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Nightscape Press 2019

Edited by Robert S. Wilson

Stories by Paul Jessup, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Ropes, Duane Pesice, Don Webb, Greg Sisco, Matt Thompson, Michael Wehunt, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Lynne Jamneck, Dino Parenti, Kurt Fawver, doungjai gam, Daniel Braum, Sean M. Thompson, Elizabeth Beechwood, David Peak, K.H. Vaughan, LC von Hessen, Brian Evenson, Amelia Gorman, Carrie Laben, Wendy Nikel, Andrew Kozma, Annie Neugebauer, Gwendolyn Kiste, Dan Coxon, Zin E. Rocklyn, Laird Barron, Steve Toase, S.P. Miskowski, S.L. Edwards.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Uncertainties: Volume III

THE SWAN RIVER PRESS MMXVIII

Edited by Lynda E. Rucker

Stories by Matthew M. Bartlett, S.P. Miskowski, Adam L.G. Nevill, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Shearman, R.S. Knightley, Lisa Tuttle, Ralph Robert Moore, Tracy Fahey, Julia Rust, David Surface, Scott West, Rosanne Rabinowitz.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

The Best Horror Of The Year – Volume Ten

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Edited by Ellen Datlow

My previous reviews of this editor HERE.

NIGHT SHADE BOOKS 2018

Stories by Carole Johnstone, Inna Effress, Mark Morris, Kaaron Warren, Rebecca Lloyd, David Erik Nelson, Kelly Robson, A.C. Wise, Sarah Read, Brian Hodge, S.P. Miskowski, Rich Larson, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Gallagher, Mira Grant, Orrin Grey, Philip Fracassi, Marc E. Fitch, Tim Major, John Langan.

Whenever, I real-time review this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Looming Low

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Edited by Justin Steele & Sam Cowan

DIM SHORES 2017

The Convexity of Our Youth — Kurt Fawver
The Stories We Tell About Ghosts — A.C. Wise
In Canada — Michael Wehunt
The Second Door — Brian Evenson
The Christiansen Deaths — Daniel Mills
Dusk Urchin — Betty Rocksteady
The Gin House, 1935 — Livia Llewellyn
This Unquiet Space — Damien Angelica Walters
We Grope Together and Avoid Speech — Sunny Moraine
Heirloom — Brooke Warra
That Which Does Not Kill You — Lucy A. Snyder
Doused by Night — Simon Strantzas
We Are All Bone Inside — Kaaron Warren
Outside, A Drifter — Lisa L. Hannett
The Small Deaths of Skin and Plastic — Kristi DeMeester
When the Blue Sky Breaks — Scott Nicolay
Mirror Bias — Craig Laurance Gidney
Boisea trivittata — Anya Martin
Rock n’ Roll Death Squad — Michael Cisco
Alligator Point — S.P. Miskowski
Stranger in the House — Jeffrey Thomas
SPARAGMOS — Christopher Slatsky
Banishments — Richard Gavin
The Sound of Black Dissects the Sun — Michael Griffin
Live Through This — Nadia Bulkin
Distant Dark Places — Gemma Files

When I review these stories, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…