Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 51

Once upon a time a zine went walking into the woods. The wind was gusting and leaves streamed from the trees like light falling through clouds. They glowed. Reds and scarlets, yellows and oranges, turning and spinning. Then: into the shadows, the colors flat. The world shivered as it turned, the cool of evening dropping. The zine would reach a shelf, a table, but for now the mailbox would be shelter. It would be there soon. Not long now. Masthead & colophon Made by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link. Text (print edition): New Caledonia LT Std. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. Every second story printed in white ink. Any day at all can be the new July fourth or the fifth of November. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | info@smallbeerpress.com | smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed by Paradise Copies. Subscriptions: $28/4 issues (more options available on our site). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. DRM-free ebooks available from the lovely weightlessbooks. Contents © 2025 the authors. All rights reserved. First issue made with the new version of Affinity—at last I dropped InDesign. I never quite got the hang of the previous iteration of Affinity but my learning curve on the new one has been ok. Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks authors, artists, readers.

Brian is from Alabama, lives in Oregon with his Partner, Toddlers, a Cat, and many Plum Trees. Brian teaches people about the bean family of plants at beanyear.com. Perdita Buchan was born in England and came to America as a child. She has since lived in England, Italy, and, for many years in New England. She has published four novels and a nonfiction work, Utopia New Jersey, a 2008 New Jersey Council for the Humanities Honor Book. Her short fiction and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Ladies' Home Journal, Harvard Magazine, House Beautiful, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. Her recent novel, The Carousel Carver, won a 2020 Independent Publishers award. Another novel, Florilla: A Pinelands Romance came out in 2021. She currently lives in coastal New Jersey. J. F. Gleeson lives in England. His work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Weird Horror, ergot., Cold Signal, Ligeia, Crow & Cross Keys, Lamplit Underground, Sublunary Review, the NoSleep podcast, the Dark Lane anthology series and other places. (deadlostbeaches.blog) Neile Graham stepped down from writer wrangling for Clarion West Writers Workshop a few years back and is soon to retire from her university day job. She plans to spend her time taking forest and beach walks, writing more poems, and finally completing revisions of the four novels languishing on her computer. (neilegraham.com) Claire Hanlon spent her formative years moving frequently between the various islands and nations of Oceania; she's also lived in California, Montana, and now Texas, where she lives with her husband, son, three cats, dog, and a whisker collection. Her most recent work can be found at HAD and X-R-A-Y, and she has essays forthcoming in Passages North and Image Journal. Find her at clairehanlon.com or on Instagram as @loveyclairey, or at home, where she's probably yelling at an animal. Felix Kent's writing has appeared in Defector and The Toast. She lives in Northern California. Nicole Kimberling cannot help but get egotistical and start recklessly challenging fate and the gods after even the smallest victory. If she's still alive and has not been struck by lightning at the time you're reading this, you can find her working as editor of Blind Eye Books or else writing novels where the characters think about food too much. Andrei Molotiu teaches art history at Indiana University, Bloomington, where his favorite course to offer focuses on the fantasy trope of magically entering a painting and what it can tell us about our fascination with real-life paintings; he's planning to write a whole book on the subject. He's also an artist, who helped kickstart the genre of abstract comics with his Eisner-nominated Abstract Comics: The Anthology. His short stories previously appeared in Exquisite Corpse and Ekphrasis Magazine. Other short pieces, from poems to experimental comics, have appeared in Shenandoah, Seedings, Asemic, and other journals, a good number of which no longer exist. Abby Roberts is an author and essayist living in Northern Virginia, United States, with her dog, Violet. In addition to her writing, she works a day job at an occupational health nonprofit, is an independent Tolkien researcher, and enjoys medieval history. Her work has also appeared in Speculative Insight and Swords & Sorcery Magazine. Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives near Boston. She reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine. Two of Catherine's poetry chapbooks, Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion and And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death, are available from the Ethel Zine Press. Their third chapbook, Dogwitch, is available from Bottlecap Press. They are wrangling a long full-length poetry manuscript—or perhaps two shorter manuscripts—who knows? Up with mystery!

Fiction Claire Hanlon, The Pied Piper of Cats Brian, Spring Before You Have to Turn the Fans On Andrei Molotiu, Alida in Pelarto J. F. Gleeson, Berries for the Dead Abby Roberts, A Grumble of Goddesses Perdita Buchan, The Blue Stallion of the Valley Estates Brian, They Cut the Language Department at the University of Chicago Felix Kent, The Summer King of Lucy's Candy Nonfiction Gavin J. Grant, Lifecycle of Books Nicole Kimberling, Warm & Forgiving: Hot Water Pastry Hereabouts, Thereabouts 1, 2 Poetry Catherine Rockwood, Two Poems Neile Graham, The God of Epiphany Art Cover illustration, “Homebody” © 2013 Christa Donner. Dawn Kimberling, Pie