The Waking of Giants, by Adrian Simmons
I. My name is Crethon and those who listen to the tales of wandering poets or spend the night in the guesthouse of King Peritas will know who I am. … Continue reading
Issue 14 Table of Contents
This is a collection for those who hear melodies in all things, even in the buzzing of a swarm of flies. It’s a collection for synaesthetes, musicians, and music-lovers of … Continue reading
Issue 14 Foreword
Lackington’s has been playing with themes ever since Issue 2. Even the inaugural issue ended up with a theme that knit the first-ever Table of Contents together, however accidentally. I … Continue reading
Moths to the Flame, by Daniel Rosen
These letters have been ordered in as accurate a sequence as possible. Needless correspondence has been eliminated, that we might more clearly depict the events which led to revolt in … Continue reading
To Sing the Sky from Disarray, by Devan Barlow
There were four of them. There were always four, the chosen quartet who in truth chose themselves by answering the echo. Joining their voices to the songs so old even … Continue reading
Camouflage, by JB Park
It slips out of its skin. Hints of glistening scales, lapped and overlapped like leaves on the mulching floor. A multitude flapping with lives of their own. Noise scatters from … Continue reading
When Dooryards First in the Lilac Bloomed, by B. Morris Allen
A Shy and Hidden Bird The thrush led me astray. He with his puffed-out speckled chest and spindly legs, his impudent beak gated open and closed in song. He that … Continue reading
At the Still Point, by Suzanne J. Willis
Alice and her wild song. That’s why I’m here, wandering the shore from dawn until dusk, collecting bottled messages the current drags in. Sometimes, I think I hear the hoarse … Continue reading
LACKINGTON'S 
A New Face at Lackington’s
It’s with great pleasure that Lackington’s welcomes Matthew Bennardo to the staff as First Reader and Marketing Manager. Matthew has published fiction in Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and … Continue reading →