With the thirtieth issue, LCRW—the only zine named after Winston Churchill's mother—changes everything. We turn blue into tree. We make electricity solid. We publish stories that shake the world so hard it takes a left at Albuquerque and is never seen again. Fiction! Poetry! Dancing in the aisles. Chocolate is distributed in the streets. The world sighs, is remade.

Guest edited by Michigan writer Michael J. DeLuca, LCRW #33 approaches its theme of humanity's relationship with the earth with a little humor, a touch of horror, and seventeen different kinds of understanding. Includes multiple award winner Sofia Samatar, Nebula and Shirley Jackson award nominee Carmen Maria Machado, and World Fantasy Award nominee Christopher Brown among others.

Who is ready for the fourty-eleventh issue of LCRW? It has stories, poems, a cooking column, & a bonus novel excerpt. Cometh the hour cometh the zine but wait it is written that a zine must sometimes be delay’d Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 44, December 2021. Edited by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link. Proofreader: Franchesca Viaud. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732033. Print edition text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · [email protected] · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $24/4 issues. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2021 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration "Mother Cat" © 2021 by Ashley Wong (ashlwong.com). Thank you authors, artists, and readers. Celebrating! Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria appearing on NPR’s 50 Favorite SF&F Books of the Past Decade; Kim Scott’s Taboo receiving a Kate Challis Ruth Adeney Koori Award (RAKA) commendation; and Vandana Singh being selected as a Climate Imagination Fellows by ASU’s Center for Science. Petra Mayer, RIP. Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above.

LCRW IIL or 4 x 1 x 2 x 3 x 2 x 1 or more properly XLVIII. Aimed for May, came out in September. A little disturbing, a little comforting, a little collection of imagined places to while away the days. Published in this leapyear.Editing: accomplished. Stories: gathered. Design partaken of. Proofing? Yes. Printing: c/o Paradise Copies. Ebook: This is it. Distribution: DRM-free at Weightless Books and DRM'd everywhere else. Read by 10.2 million people every million years or so. R.I.P. Howard Waldrop, oh we enjoyed knowing and working (if never fishing) with you. Celebrating: Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche is a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award finalist; Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places (& Small Beer) were Locus Award finalists; Naomi Mitchison was Readercon’s Memorial Guest of Honor. Ink: Gavin J. Grant Spaces: Kelly Link. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 48. Aimed for May, came out in September 2024. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731227. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | [email protected] | smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Print version text: New Caledonia LT Std; Titles: Imprint MT Shadow; printed by Paradise Copies. Thanks, Valerie. Subscriptions: $24/4 print issues (see page 52 of the print edition or below for options). By mail: please make checks out to Small Beer Press. Only surreal ingredients. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through the lovely weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2024 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration “Castle Panther” © 2024 Gessica Maio All rights reserved. Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks again, authors, artists, readers. LCRW Subscriptions Ebook ~ $12.99 ~ 4 ebook issues ~ weightlessbooks.com/lcrw Print ~ $24 ~ 4 issues (sometimes even within the expected 2 years). Choc ~ $42 ~ as print no. 2 & a good chocolate bar each time. Littlely ~ $49 as Choc. & a random chapbook from our list. Reckoning ~ $59–89 ~ as Littlely & your choice of any combo of Reckoning 1-6. Cartwheels! ~ $1,000 ~ as Littlely & a $1,000 donation to Franciscan Hospital for Children. Everyone (hearts) you. Moonlight ~ $110 ~ as no. 2 & a Luna Moth Book Moon Moonlight Club membership.

Three million years from now a thought form called oufaobf will randomly coalesce into LCRW 35 at the same time as 1.2 million monkeys type it out. Which means there will be 2 copies out there in that there far future galaxy. Will Nicole Kimberling's recipe blow them away? Fiction by Danielle Mayabb or James Warner? Could be. Table of Contents Fiction Danielle Mayabb, "People Are Fragile Things You Should Know By Now" James Warner, "The History of Harrabash" Clinton Lawrence, "The Peach Orchard" Kate Story, "The Ghost of the Cherry Blossom" Jessy Randall, "Anonymized Orgies, Inc." Andrew Ervin, "Presently Engulfing the Mid-Atlantic States" Jack Larsen, "The Equipoise with Lentils" Diana M. Chien, "Maria Taglioni and the Highwayman" S. E. Clark, "Genius Loci" Henry Wessells, "Extended Range; or, The Accession Label" Emily Jace McLaughlin, "Above the Line” Nonfiction Nicole Kimberling, "Holiday Treats: Believe the Dream" Poetry Catherine Fletcher, "Four Poems from Spook Speak, A Tale of Espionage” Cover Aatmaja Pandya, "A Wizard of Earthsea" About the Authors Eleven stories, 4 poems, a column. A zine. An occasional outburst. History is written by the people who write. These are not usual days. These are not the usual times. This is a time of grief. This is a time of gloominess. This is a time of anger. This is a time of witnessing. This is a time to stand up and be counted. We will support the ACLU. We will fight for equality, inclusiveness, for health care. We will fight racism, misogyny, hatred, and intolerance. We will write the history of our times together. Gavin J. Grant Kelly Link

This is issue Forty (Extraordinary) One of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet which is being published in June of 2020 and is being sent out free to subscribers as a bonus to add joy to this daily more complicated world. (Contributors were paid the usual rates.) Readers who’d like to support the zine are encouraged to subscribe, mais oui, but also to donate to Color of Change, buy books through Black-owned bookstores such as Frugal Bookstore, and bookstores damaged or closed in the civil unrest as we try and change our world, including DreamHaven, Uncle Hugo’s, Magers & Quinn, and Moon Palace. Read some excellent short fiction and reset your weary head. A handful of stories by authors known and unknown.

We’re almost sure this issue of LCRW is made up of more than a 100,000 letters and can guarantee that most are in the right place. Two huge stories anchor the issue, Nicole Kimberling explains that CSA means Crazy-Sexy Agriculture, and zombie hordes, vampires, cannibals, and many other ghouls tried to slip under the door. But it's not all monsters.