Issue 28 (2006)

Here we are, almost on time, and with another fine selection of stories, poems and illustrations. Scott Clements presents “Murderer of Days,” another angle on the many-sided Faust legend. Ellen Denham brings us “Aldric’s Journey,” an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, The Willow Maiden. Those of you who saw the ballet based on the story, or the excerpts from it which Ellen shared at Mythcon XXXV (in 2004), will enjoy learning more. Bill Krapfel presents a story in the time-honored mythopoeic genre of the “found manuscript”: the origin of the constellations as told by a certain Johannes Martin. Joe Christopher also offers a “found manuscript,” a cycle of poems by the eloquent but obscure Nat While, soldier during World War I.