Contributors

Gregory Norman Bossert

Contributor History

Left Hand Jane, Conjunctions:69 (215–224)
The Empyrean Light, Conjunctions:71
The Empyrean Light — A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity, Online 11-22-2018

Biography

Gregory Norman Bossert’s short fiction sprawls across genre boundaries; recent works appear everywhere from Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two, edited by Neil Clarke, and Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine, edited by Ellen Datlow (both Night Shade Books) to the Saturday Evening Post to Conjunctions:69, Being Bodies. His story “The Telling” won the 2013 World Fantasy Award. He lives across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, where he works for Lucasfilm.

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In Print

Conjunctions:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Dream Tongue

by Jennifer Adams

January 14, 2020

We found the laptop in Cressey’s round room. It was black, thin, light as wood, and belonged to Dr. Marcus, the man who came on to me once, the one who smokes dope in the eaves, the philologist or psychologist. I can’t get these “terms” straight in my head anymore, what with these drugs they feed us. The afternoon pills, especially.

Three Poems

by Alexandria Peary

January 7, 2020

We turn the floodlights on the actors, extras in one of the world’s great short stories, surprising them mid-escapade, nocturnal animals caught playing dress up with our clothing, our fanciest possessions. Pearl choker on a possum, suit jacket on a raccoon. A skunk, a lynx, two tubby foxes moonlighting as twin nephews or as young men dating our daughters.

L’altro figlio

by Fortunato Salazar

December 17, 2019

Though we mocked Dad mercilessly, our mocking was such as to lead him on convincingly. Dad! There is hope for you if, say, you are struck by lightning. So often did he sulk out on the balcony that he did seem to be inviting a strike. Or a stumble.

A Conjunctions Launch Reading with Joyce Carol Oates, Quincy Troupe, Rob Nixon, and Hilary Leichter

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe & Bar Celebrates the New Earth Elegies Issue

Thursday, January 30, 2020

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe & Bar, 126 Crosby St., New York, NY 10012