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Fiction. Horror. Women's Studies. MOTHER WALKED INTO THE LAKE, Alana I. Capria's second novel, merges fantasy, feminism, and horror into a brilliant but disturbing allegory on motherhood and mental illness. The story follows three children who come face-to-face with the consequences of their Mother's drowning. The novel explores the complicated nature of Motherhood and how women uniquely carry this onus of self- sacrifice, responsibility, and all- consuming love.

Fiction. Feminist Horror. "Once upon a hollowed out moon, my liver withers ..." The Bloodless girl is haunted by confusing memories of her cannibalistic worm mother. Did the Bloodless girl bury her worm mother in salt? Where have all the worm siblings gone? And how did the Bloodless girl end up on a curving rural road that leads to nowhere and everywhere? The Bloodless girl can't remember. All she knows is that dust fills her arteries and the worm mother is gone. Accompanied by a skeletal pumpkin and devil tree, the Bloodless girl journeys through the New Jersey backwoods in search of a hilltop slaughterhouse that is the key to regaining her blood and learning the truth about the worm mother's disappearance.

A young woman's organs plot a slow and torturous cannibalization of her body. Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel poison their bodies with gardens worth of parsley while devouring their many princely suitors. Lilith and Eve usurp Adam's throne in Eden. An anthropomorphic uterus withers as it travels through a rotten landscape of spoiled deserts and collapsed streets. A woman makes a home in the confines of a small room while refusing to allow her spouse inside. Throughout the stories in Wrapped in Red flesh starves and is consumed, reddens and collapses, all while clamoring through putrid forests and dilapidated factories. The bodies might be beautiful but that doesn't mean they aren't killers.

Unnerving Magazine - Issue #1 Includes fiction from J.D. Horn (author of the Witching Savannah series), John F.D. Taff (author of The Desolated Orchard and The End in All Beginnings), Stephen S. Power (author of The Dragon Round), Anke Kriske, J.J. Roth, Joshua Chaplinsky, Sean Patrick Hazlett, Alana I. Capria, Epiphany Ferrell and J.L. Knight. Interviews with Richard Thomas and Reggie Levine* and a Q&A with Adam Howe.

Not all wars are fought on the battlefield. From the Arctic ice to the front hall closet, from the depths of space to the laptop screen, discover the conflicts closer to home in the first five stories chosen during the first anonymous reading period at OrthogonalSF.net. Read the letter she thought she'd never write, revealing the secret past of someone you thought you knew in Sarah L. Johnson's "The First Wife" Look into the face of anarchy and see your own eyes staring back in "#Anon and the Antlers" by Michael J. Deluca. Joyriding fathers might be stuck in space but a pair of foul-mouthed sons will never give up in Douglas W. Milliken's "Tootsie-Pop." Taste the horrors lurking beneath the delicious, shimmering surface of the perfect home in Alana I. Capria's "Gelatin Molds." In a future of near-infinite possibility, are you a Min or a Max? The answer is waiting in Josh Pearce's "A Citizen's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven."

In HFR Presents: The Future, writers respond through fiction, poetry, nonfiction, comics, and other means posing utopic, apocalyptic, dystopic, or superhero solutions to contemporary society. Submissions should depict futuristic alternative worlds in politics, environment, gender, religion, sexuality, or ethnography. "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next," Ursula K. Le Guin writes in the feminist sci-fi novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Generation after generation, our ability to tell new stories charts our future. Featuring new work from Leland Cheuk, Janice Lee, Alana I. Capria, Ira Sukrungruang, and many more.

The first volume of a new journal of weird/horror fiction. Featuring fiction from Jason A Wyckoff, Lucy A Snyder, Betty Rocksteady, Michael Kelly, C C Adams, Tim Jeffreys, Terence Hannum, Andrew Wilmot, Adrian Ludens, Matt Thompson, Alana I Capria, J Daniel Stone, and Jordan Kurella. Non-fiction from Jose Cruz and James Newman. An interview with filmmaker Philip Gelatt. Interior art by Lee Harrington, Christian Weiland, and Matt Andrew. Cover painting by Matt Tisdale. Edited by Benjamin Holesapple.

Everyone has an obsession, whether it be with the body, art, drugs, or sex. No matter what the obsession, any mental addiction changes the individual. It plagues the mind, creates tremors in the limbs, seizes the tongue, and grasps and pulls until escape is nearly impossible. Meet Ty, overwhelmed by the promise and power of illegal substances; Nathan, tormented by the memory of his first sexual escapade; Marcus, in love with food but afraid to gain weight; Chastity, a suicidal artist who has lost her identity; Anastacia, oppressed by her abusive lover; Phoenix, a religious fanatic willing to sacrifice lives for his Lord; and Cameron, sexually self-destructive and vindictive. Seven characters, created in the memory of those who have suffered similarly; seven individual stories, all written as an Elegy to a Ravaged Body.

A nameless female character is slowly being eaten by her organs.