The July, 2014 issue edited by Christopher T Garry features 124 pages of never before seen stories from eight new authors, creating narratives that are variously dark, cynical, inspiring, violent and longing. Black Denim Lit is a monthly journal of fiction available on the web and eReaders.
"'Til Death Do Us Party" by Kelly Schrock (Cinder is suspended on the far side of death); "Call for Help" by Zack Miller (Jenny considers her place at the center of suicide support); "Unfinished Things" by Ethan Fast (A thing lurks in the dark speaking low and reasonable); "What Pavel Found" by Geoffrey W. Cole (Pavel visits a future that has a past requiring more than a lifetime to understand); "The Girl in the Glass Case" by Matthew Di Paoli (Fred struggles with tenuous socialization and stark sexuality in an increasingly internalized technological world); PLUS "Uncanny Valley" by M.T. O’Byrne; "The Teacher's Connection" by T.D. Edge; "Local News" by Benjamin Schachtman
What are you looking for outside yourself? What gives you forward motion in a brutal life? How will artificially intelligent androids feel living at the edge of what scientists today call the Uncanny Valley?
Christopher Garry's works are forthcoming in Revenge of the Scammed and Voluted Tales, and have appeared in Tales of the Talisman, Aurora Wolf, Bohemia Journal, Crack the Spine, Fiction on the Web, Bewildering Stories, Bartleby Snopes, Linguistic Erosion, Danse Macabre and many others.
Born in Illinois he lives outside Seattle with family and pets. If he were born at another age perhaps he would stare blankly at the sunset as he wipes mastodon blood from his chin, tossing the bone aside. This is a little difficult in rush hour traffic nowadays.
He can be found on Poets & Writers or CTGarry.com.