Homage to Stone, by Thomas Canfield
Twenty days—it took Banai twenty days to cross the Steppe. He walked by night when the air was cool and the vast, sprawling sky overhead was filled with stars. By … Continue reading
Issue 24 Table of Contents
Plants and speculative fiction have always gone hand in hand. From healers to invasive species to the literal grotesque, botanical beings in fiction refuse to be ignored. We’ve dedicated Issue … Continue reading
Issue 24 Foreword
As plant-lovers, a botanical-themed issue has long been on our wish-list here at Lackington’s, so First Reader Matt and I are chuffed that it’s finally happening. Plants, of course, are … Continue reading
Dr. Ormeau’s Botanical Menagerie, by Morgan L. Ventura
The following is an assemblage of newspaper clippings, letters, court transcripts, and ethnographic logs from both Dr Sidney Ormeau, a botanist, and Dr Agnes Fortune, an anthropologist dispatched by the … Continue reading
I, Mandragora, by Phoenix Alexander
All of this is taking far too long. Here I am: red, flush with merriment, stinking sweet flora rotting in the shape of a human and here you are: a … Continue reading
My Face to the Sun, by Kelly E. Dwyer
The first time he brings me flowers, I throw myself in the river, right off the end of the dock and into the brackish shallows. The bouquet is bright and … Continue reading
In Which Mushrooms Carry History Through a Door Between Worlds, by Sharon J. Gochenour
The first part: reunions. [[ taste known ]] [[ taste familiar ]] (they creep through the earth, a thousand branching fingers, each tendril a single, elongated cell, a pressurized questing … Continue reading
Ten Poisons That Cannot Kill the Queen, by Marie Croke & Anna Madden
1 Atropa Belladonna An array of berries like little soldiers: the belladonna deeply black, intermixed with blueberries, gooseberries and raspberries enough so they smear the more potent root powder I … Continue reading
Tree Heart, by Beatriz Becker
In a factory yard there were piles of utility poles, all brand new. A mischievous wind blew dust and dirt over them, whirling dead leaves, pods and seeds about. But … Continue reading
LACKINGTON'S 
A Brief Farewell
After our 25th issue comes out in spring 2022 (in our nearly 10th year), Lackington’s Magazine will be going on hiatus. This means that our coming submission period for “Prehistories” … Continue reading →