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Mythaxis Magazine – Issue 45 – Non-fiction

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez – Mattia Ravasi
Short Reviews – October 2025 to January 2026 – ALH

Additional thanks to cover artist Narupiti Harunsong, audio producer Micah Hyatt, and techguru Marty Steer!

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Issue 45 of the new-look Mythaxis Magazine is out now!

https://t.co/bTPPgxniyW

6 new stories, 2 review articles, and a site overhaul for an app-like mobile reading experience and a bunch of bells and whistles!

Many thanks to our latest contributors, table of contents follows…

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Mythaxis Magazine – Issue 45 – Fiction

The Agentic Necklace – Frank Baird Hughes
On Miracles – P. W. Lewis
The Perfect Mother – Jude Clee
The Negotiation – Vanessa Fabiano
Search History – Jon Clendaniel
Pultu’s Lesson – Sean Myers

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i44 ToC

The Witness – Donald McCarthy
Shooter – Mark H. Harris
Twelve Gauge Tune-up – Devin James Leonard
Mad Gods & Englishmen – Shamus Maxwell
Smart Contract – Angus McIntyre
The Valkyrie's Lesson – Ayame
Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester – Bill Ryan
Short Crime Reviews, 2025

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Issue 44 of Mythaxis Magazine is live!
https://t.co/19Ulal3deU
Six new crime stories in text & audio, plus long and short form fiction reviews!

Thanks to Ayame, Mark H. Harris, Devin James Leonard, Shamus Maxwell, Donald McCarthy, Angus McIntyre, and Bill Ryan, with Micah Hyatt!

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25 peppercorns – Emma Burnett
Murmurations – AM Sutter
Body Parts – Anna Koltes
For Giving – Olufunmilayo Makinde
The Sugar Wife – Christina Ladd
The Twelve Blackened Slippers – Siobhan Ekeh
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino – Mattia Ravasi
Short Reviews – Jul-Sept

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Issue 43 of Mythaxis is live!
https://t.co/ooReRMpTSw

Six new stories in text/audio, four long and short form fiction reviews!

Many thanks to @slashnburnett.bsky.social, AM Sutter, Anna Koltes, Olufunmilayo Makinde, Christina Ladd, Siobhan Ekeh, Mattia Ravasi, and Micah Hyatt!

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@SeanMacKendrick @faceyouhate Mythaxis i42 TOC - non-fiction

Strange Pictures, by Uketsu - reviewed by Bill Ryan

Short Reviews #10 - Andrew Leon Hudson

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Issue 42 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
https://t.co/vsFHz47Uce

Six new stories in text and audio, and reviews too!

Many thanks to @SeanMacKendrick, Cheryl Ntumy, Anna Ziegelhof, Travis Ezell, Charlie Winter, Josh Pearce, @faceyouhate, and Micah Hyatt on voice!

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@SeanMacKendrick @faceyouhate Mythaxis i42 ToC - fiction

Tag, You’re It - Sean MacKendrick

Listen, Don’t Touch - Cheryl Ntumy

Lay-offs - Anna Ziegelhof

Swimming With Elephants - Travis Ezell

The House We Built Together, Yesterday - Charlie Winter

Someday Someone’s Gonna Steal Your Carbon - Josh Pearce

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Mythaxis i41 ToC

Dhuni, Murderer of Mountains – Finale Doshi-Velez
Sunnyside – Stephen S. Power
The Culling – Addison Smith
Beyond the Sudden Door – Lyra Meurer
Seal-Skin – David Stephen Powell
Safe in the Dark – Helen French
Metallic Realms, by Lincoln Michel – Mattia Ravasi

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Issue 41 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
https://t.co/dk0H0uDx8w

Six new stories in text and audio formats, and reviews too!

Many thanks to Finale Doshi-Velez, Helen French, Lyra Meurer, Stephen S Power, David Stephen Powell, Mattia Ravasi, Addison Smith, and Micah Hyatt!

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@faceyouhate @MicahJHyatt In addition, you can also find editor @AndLeoHud's short reviews of six crime stories available elsewhere in 2024, and his editorial, in which mention is made of a certain crime publication forthcoming from @DeadInkBooks in 2025...

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Issue 40 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
https://t.co/uBBLYW4p2l

Many thanks to our text contributors, Jess Sims, David Sheskin, Arlen Feldman, P.R.O’Leary, Michael Bettendorf, Kirk Bueckert, and Bill @faceyouhate Ryan (and to @MicahJHyatt for delivering the audio versions!)

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@faceyouhate @MicahJHyatt Mythaxis i40 ToC

Downsizing – Jess Simms
The Vanishing Diminutive Girl Trick – David Sheskin
The Amazing Mermaid – Arlen Feldman
Crunch Thump Thump – P.R. O'Leary
American Hitsuzen – Michael Bettendorf
Wendigo – Kirk Bueckert
Cruel is the Night, by Karo Hämäläinen – Bill Ryan

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Thanks to everyone who shared their work in our latest submissions window - 281 stories for the editor to sift through!

Why not help us celebrate by listening to the audio version of Emma @slashnburnett's heart-string-tugging WITH NOTHING LEFT?

https://t.co/n2WgKPiOAv

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Issue 39 update: We've just uploaded the audio version of COTTAGE IN THE WOODS by Carl Walmsley!

https://t.co/DcF2Khygej

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Issue 39 update: We've just uploaded the audio version of THE NOTE AFFIXED TO YOUR CRYOTUBE by @StevenGenise!

https://t.co/skDRcMQpry

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Mythaxis i39 ToC

Tintype Trolls – Teresa Milbrodt
The Note Affixed to Your Cryotube – Steven Genise
Cottage in the Woods – Carl Walmsley
With Nothing Left – Emma Burnett
Pillars of Distraction – Rob Gillham
Jungle House by Julianne Pachico – review by Matia Ravasi
Short Reviews

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The new issue of Mythaxis is now live!
https://t.co/5YaqIXVEKn

Many thanks to our text contributors, Teresa Milbrodt @StevenGenise Carl Walmsley @slashnburnett @robertgillham & Mattia Ravasi (and to Michael Kváč for the cover and @MicahJHyatt on voice!)