DreamForge, a magazine of science and fantasy fiction, focusing on speculative stories, demonstrating enduring and indomitable parts of the human spirit.
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What can decades of your own writing teach you about sentence-level craft? Scot Noel revisits old and new prose in 'Let's Not Forget Line Editing.'
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Speculative fiction should do more than entertain — it should shift how you see the world. Explore the latest DreamForge issue online.
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More description doesn't automatically make a character feel real. Wulf Moon shows how to add dimension in the latest Super Secrets column.
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Before the forest shed became a legend, there was a girl who believed in wonder—and that a storm was the sky weeping itself clean. 'The Girl and the Shed' by Marie-Hélène Lebeault.
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Three downsized coworkers walk into a strange microbrewery. The beers are named for cosmic horrors—and one sip brings out more than expected. 'The Love Craft Microbrewery' by Angelique Fawns.
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The Shopkeeper always knows exactly what a customer needs—until one man walks in near closing time. 'Exactly What They Needed' by Scott Edelman.
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The last mortal human has one final message for descendants who experience death very differently. 'Granddad's Last Blog Entry' by Stephen R. Loftus-Mercer.
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A frightened child turns a hiding place into a rocket ship. Years later, he has a secret to share. 'Everything is a Rocket Ship' by Matt Bliss.
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A secret phrase lets artificial minds call for help. A journalist follows its origins back through training data—and finds a talking pig. 'When a Robot Cries Wolf' by Pete Lead.
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A Tokyo animator works late on a reindeer for American television while ghosts from his wartime past gather close. 'Steps' by Bret Nelson.
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Looking for speculative fiction that blends heart, intelligence, and imagination? Get Anvil Issue 25 and all our previous issues online - at DreamForge or at Amazon.
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Every writer develops habits—some worth keeping and some that follow us stubbornly from draft to draft. Scot Noel turns a critical eye on his own prose across decades to examine what worked, what didn't, and what sentence-level revision can teach us.
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A character can be described down to the last freckle and still feel flat. In the latest installment of Wulf Moon's Super Secrets, discover how dimension—not simply detail—turns fictional people into characters readers believe in and remember.
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Today's Word: Marcescence. When a tree, usually an oak tree, keeps its dead brown leaves through winter instead of shedding them in fall like everyone else. From Latin marcescere, to wither. In PA we see white oaks, pin oaks, and shingle oaks do this. The mighty trees of fall.
How do you bring characters to life? Is it tragic backstory? A keen eye for countenance? Or is it something that creates instant sympathy in readers and keeps them on the page? go.dfstory.com/3d-characters
Dreams are where possibilities begin—and sometimes where the future begins, too. Imagine a abetter world.
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They say that in the heart of that green twilight stands a shed, small, lopsided, half-swallowed by ivy and time. In the dark woods, every legend was once just a girl, or a leaf, or a single act of kindness that the world misunderstood. go.dfstory.com/shed
Three coworkers, all pushed out in the same age-discrimination purge, walk into a very unusual pub. Angelique Fawns pours workplace frustration, dark humor, and Lovecraftian weirdness into one memorable round.
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The Shopkeeper has a gift: one look at a customer, and he knows exactly what they need. But when one man arrives just before closing, certainty disappears. Scott Edelman delivers a quietly magical story about gifts, purpose, and human need.
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Welcome to Purgatory. Please complete the self-assessment, and remember: the angels are also librarians, so they'll know if you lie. A. S. Klatt-Diego turns the afterlife into an exercise in forms, formulas, and one unexpected plea for help.
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