GUD Vault
Issue 4 :: Spring 2009
Issue 4 begins with the end of the world and moves on from there. From the unromantically magical take on Ragnarøk in the lead story "Unbound" to the curious history of squid in "A Man of Kiri Maru", this issue is steeped in mythos, making use of the old familiar tales and some new ones, mixing cosmologies from around the world--and from other worlds as well.
But the focus, be it of prose, poetry, or art, is always on the human--on the clashes between imagination and reality, on choices and redemption, on what the Other can tell us about ourselves. And like any GUD magazine, this one's eclectic; browse around between the covers and you're sure to come upon some things you'll like, whether you're a genre junkie or a generalist. We hope you'll find some beauty, something uncommon, and that, for just a moment, the angle of the light will seem a little bit different.
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Table of contents ~ stories / poetry / reports / art
stories
Unbound
by Brittany Reid Warren
Q&A
by Nik Houser
Flip Lady (1986)
by Ladee Hubbard
The Dancing Aliens
by Mithran Somasundrum
Daya and Dharma
by Shweta Narayan
Long Winter by Night
by D. Elizabeth Wasden
Unfinished Stories
by J(ae)D Brames
The Thirst
by Kerry Hudson
Vore; or, Levity in Dungeons
by Adrian Versteegh
How Ramona Saved the Ducks
by Allan Richard Shapiro
Forests of the Night
by Abigail Hilton
Stiletto
by Ian McHugh
How's Your Sister?
by Anne Goodwin
A Man of Kiri Maru
by Laura L. Sullivan
Maya's World
by T. F. Davenport
poetry
Unlike Red Tape, the Yellow
by Lida Broadhurst
Ghosts of Sweaty Air
by Jim Pascual Agustin
Teaching Assistant
by Ward Crockett
Jesus Fucks an Atheist and Calls It Love
by Lisa Feinstein
To a Skylark
by Rose Lemberg
Quack
by Brian Beatty
this infants spine
by Zac Carter
Flotsam, 1968 - Extant
by Matthew Keuter
Note to J.
by Matthew Keuter
reports
What Kafka Knew
by Christy Rodgers
art
The Strangers Are Tuning
by Jesse Lindsay
Mortality
by Adam Ramirez
Writing the Harvest
by Lisa A. Grabenstetter
Hidden
by Rossana Reginato
Shaula
by Tree DeAngelis
The Sheep
by Ursula Vernon
The Catoblepas
by Lisa A. Grabenstetter
Werewolf
by eric orchard
Idolomantis diabolica
by Jesse Lindsay
Bird Liquor and the Boastful Ghost
by Joseph Larkin
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