Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #3

Book excerpt: Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #3 includes 13 short stories: "Descant" — Piers Anthony "The Peacemaker" — Rachel A. Brune "My Favorite Photos of Anne" — Aaron Polson "Verisimilitude" — Alan Murdock "Orc Legal" — James Beamon "Kindle My Heart" — Rebecca Birch "Burn in Me" — Carrie Martin "The Memory-Setter's Apprentice" — Alvaro Zinos-Amaro "Hither and Yon" — Anatoly Belilovsky "The Contents of the Box with the Ribbon" — David Neilsen "The First First Fire" — Alexander Monteagudo "Missing Tessa" — Anna Yeatts "The Perfect Book" — Alex Shvartsman In the non-fiction section, this issue features: -Interview With Author Piers Anthony -Interview With Author and Publisher Anna Yeatts -Interview With Editor Scott H. Andrews -Artist Spotlight: Suebsin Pulsiri -Book Review: Upgraded (edited by Neil Clarke) -Movie Review: The House That Dripped Blood (1971) (Peter Duffell) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.