{"id":5344,"date":"2020-10-07T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2020-10-07T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:04:59","slug":"fireside-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/fireside-quarterly\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Quarterly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The autumn issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/firesidefiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Fireside Quarterly<\/em><\/a> (guest edited by Maurice Broaddus) is out! It includes my science fiction story &#8220;Navigational Error,&#8221; Jason Sanford&#8217;s story &#8220;Whistle Posts of Forgotten Railroads,&#8221; &#8220;Chosen&#8221; by Kate Sheeran Swed, &#8220;At the Intersection of Light and Sound&#8221; by Michelle Mellon, &#8220;The Boy with the Golden Arm&#8221; by Danian Darrell Jerry, and other stories by Alisa Alering, Jaymee Goh, Em Liu, Regina N. 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Herbert.<\/p>\n<p>It also features illustrations by <span class=\"quarterly-contributor quarterly-contributor-16\">Marcia Diaz and <\/span><span class=\"quarterly-contributor quarterly-contributor-17\">Don Rimx, including this cover by <span class=\"quarterly-contributor-01\">Daniel Castro Maia:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firesidefiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5346\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/fireside-quarterly\/firesidecover-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Firesidecover-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"478,682\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Firesidecover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Firesidecover-1.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5346 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Firesidecover-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Fireside Cover\" width=\"478\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Firesidecover-1.jpeg 478w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Firesidecover-1-210x300.jpeg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The autumn issue of Fireside Quarterly (guest edited by Maurice Broaddus) is out! It includes my science fiction story &#8220;Navigational Error,&#8221; Jason Sanford&#8217;s story &#8220;Whistle <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/fireside-quarterly\/\" title=\"Fireside Quarterly\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-5344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Firesidecover-e1602107600934.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qT6f-1oc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14873,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/short-story-in-grimdark\/","url_meta":{"origin":5344,"position":0},"title":"Short story in Grimdark Magazine #43","author":"Lucy A. 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