Karen Burnham mentioned my recent story in the new magazine Constelacion in the March 2021 Locus magazine!
“The Excruciating Beauty of Ephemera” is a strangely sweet story centered on a sentient volcano that is as horrified by the damage it wreaks on a colony of frogs as on a group of volcanologists.”
I’m really excited that my story, “The Excruciating Beauty of Ephemera” is out in the first issue of Constelacion magazine. In English and Spanish! It’s about a sentient volcano trying to do better.
“The slopes of the sentient volcano were covered with dying purple frogs. Vultures and other scavengers perched on the trees and picked at the little corpses. The volcano shuddered in agonies of guilt. Were the gases it emitted responsible? “
The illustration for the story is perfect!
And look at this cover!
Edited to Add:
I was delighted to find this story reviewed in Quick Sips reviews from Charles Payseur.
“The Excruciating Beauty of Ephemera” by Keyan Bowes (short story) – A strange and almost mythological story of a volcano distressed about the destruction it authors, seeking a way to live and let live, and finding an answer from a mysterious source. Grim but also kinda cute.
http://quicksipreviews.blogspot.com/2021/03/quick-sips-03052021.html
KEYAN BOWES 