Best of Black Heart 2014

Black Heart Magazine’s first digital issue of 2015 collects together 10 years’ worth of of short fiction, poetry, author interviews and more.

Including Best of the Net nominees, popular favorites, and lots of kick-ass author interviews, you’ll find the best of Black Heart’s unique brand of literary mayhem packed into this issue’s 177 pages.

This issue Includes short fiction, poetry, character crushes, venomous villains, and author interviews from a wide variety of featured contributors.

Full Table of Contents

PROSE

• by Jennifer Luckenbill
• by Peter Baltensperger
• by Brystan Strong
• by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
• by Pat Siebel
• by Susan Rukeyser
• by Kathryn Roberts
• by Leah Kaminsky
• by Stewart Kirby
• by Amanda Miska
• by Linda Michel-Cassidy
• by Ruben Rodriguez
• by Robin Wyatt Dunn
• by Denise Calhoun
• by Lindsay Parnell
• by Edie Rylander
• by Sandra Hahn
• by Resa Alboher
• by Rasmenia Massoud
• by Peter Baltensperger
• by Isabella David McCaffrey
• by Jim Meirose

POETRY

• “Reading the Steam” by Steve Klepetar
• “Pen Pals” by Merica Teng
• “Old Friend, Butcher, Despot” by Corey Mesler
• “Let Me Lie” by Candice Reyes
• “In Taiwan” by Susan Levi Wallach
• “A Nocturne” by Shane Rooney
• “Lucky Charm” by Donald Vincent
• “Cathedral” by Jennifer Faylor
• “Love Letter Written on a Ferris Wheel” by Ricky Garni
• “Glamour in France” by Aunia Kahn
• “Beepocalypse” by Jay Sizemore
• “October 5th” by Harlan Wheeler
• “Happy New Year” by Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• “The Last Supper” by Emma Eisler
• “From the Sea” by Emma Bernstein
• “Loving Mata Hari” by Wes Edwards
• “Insomnia” by Anna Lea Jancewicz
• “Cactus Pears” by Brian White
• “Split” by Katelyn Lucas
• “Upon Seeing a Picture of Us Two” by Wallace-Ruby Morales
• “Simulacrum” by Joyce Chong
• “Classics in Russian” by Keith Nunes

CREATIVE NONFICTION

• by Dave Wright
• by Gabino Iglesias
• by Resa Alboher
• by Gabriella Geisinger
• by Misti Rainwater-Lites
• by Mark Pfannenstiel
• by Tiffany Morris
• by Elaina Acosta Ford
• by Susan Tepper

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

• Nathan Deuel

• Pamela DuMond
• Rhiannon Frater
• Seumas Gallacher
• John Edward Larson
• Jessica McHugh
• Greg Santos
• Benjamin Sobieck
• Chuck Wendig