Issue 45 (2023)
Editors’ Introductions
Greetings, Subscribers, Contributors, and Readers, All, and welcome to the 2023 edition (issue #45) of The Mythic Circle, the creative writing publication of The Mythopoeic Society. With this issue, we continue the 36-year-long tradition (since 1987) of providing The Mythic Circle as a publishing outlet for members of The Mythopoeic Society and for writers and artists in the general public (we’ve published 45 editions because in the early days, the journal was a quarterly publication—but those days are gone, probably forever).
The Gathering
David Sparenberg
The Marble Princess
Lawrence Buentello
Orpheus and Eurydice
Emma Wilson-Kanamori
ODE to JOY or The Way of Eloquence
David Sparenberg
The Lark Mirror
Angelisa Fontaine-Wood
Originating Dragons
Sandy Feinstein
Black Dragon Ship
David Sparenberg
Dragon Fall
Lawrence Buentello
A Great Strength of Time
Kevan Kenneth Bowkett
Black Dragon Keep
Lee Clark Zumpe
The Death of Wyac
Geoffrey Reiter
The Book of the Dragon
Sandy Feinstein
The Symphony of Rosaline
J. Brice Odom
A Circle of Dragons
A. J. Prufrock
The Penultimate Dodo
Geoffrey Reiter
West of the Moon
Elizabeth Scott Tervo
Under a Horned Red Moon
Kevan Kenneth Bowkett
A Forefather of Fantasy
Andoni Cossio
Gweir The Warrior
Joe Christopher
Demon and Dog-man
S. Dorman
SHE-We-Eucatastrophe
David Sparenberg
Silver Lining
Kevan Kenneth Bowkett
I Have Guests
Russ Bickerstaff
Co-Editors
- Victoria Gaydosik, fiction, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
- Nolan Meditz, poetry, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Editor Emerita
- Gwenyth Hood, Marshall University
Archivist
- Phillip Fitzsimmons, Administrator of The Mythic Circle and Society Archives, Southwestern Oklahoma State University