Ballista - Speculative short fiction magazine
ISSN 1750-6646

 

Back Issues 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 are still available @ £1.50 each from the online shop, via PayPal or cheque payable to Flapjack Press. NB: Issues 1-3 are chapbook style publications, whilst issues 4-7 are perfect bound journals.

 

...The editor scrutinises the screen of his laptop, trying hard to ignore the gaze of the thing on the shelf, the lamentable rustling of its papery soul. He wonders if he is going mad, whether the conversation he'd just had with it really happened.
After a while he perceives its insistent whisper again. 'So that's it? After all we've been through? You're just ending it?'
He shrugs, trying to conceal his guilt beneath a mask of nonchalance. 'All good things...' He doesn't have the heart to complete the excruciating platitude.
There is a shadow around the thing where the damp wallpaper falls across it. 'But why?' it seems to whimper. 'You put the flesh on my bones.'

 

#7, autumn 09
ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers

David Tallerman, Neil Beynon, Daniel Wilson, Terence Kuch, Brian G. Ross, Naoka Awa, Mario Milosevic, Phil Kurthausen & Jon Vagg

 

 

 

 

#6, spring 09
ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers

Michelle Howarth, Natalie Donbavand, Steve Richards, Gwen Seabourne, Andrew Knighton, Marshall Payne, James Holland, Lee Callaway, Nik Perring, Neil James Hudson

 

 

 

 

#5, autumn 08
ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers

Alison J. Littlewood, Michael Loken, Caroline Barnard-Smith, J. Michael Shell, Crista Ermiya, Rupert Merkin, Rafe McGregor, David Buchan

 

 

 

 

 

#4, spring 08
ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers

William Meikle, Laura Bickle, Simon Vigneault, Thea Lu, Sophie Bachard, Phill Campbell, Tom Conoboy, Andy Wolverton, Short Story Competition

 

 

 

 

 

#3, autumn 07
ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers 

Sean K. Twyford, Fran Jacobs, Jim Spry, Tim Groome, Christine Lucas, Rob Crandall, Shamus Maxwell, Lee Clark Zumpe, Andrew Myers

 

 

 

 

 

#2, spring 07
ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers SOLD OUT

Bohdan Yuri, Charles Black, Adam J. Shardlow, Kurt Kirchmeier, Sylvia M. DeSantis, Arthur Chappell, Edward Morris, Gill Ainsworth, Stephen Roy, Neil James Hudson, Paul Neads

 

 

 

 

 

#1, autumn 06
ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers SOLD OUT

H. Ann Dyess, Dermot Glennon, John Light, Rosie Lugosi, James S. Dorr, Paul Tristram, Skadi meic Beorh, Andrew Myers

 

 

 

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