Welcome to Issue 21 of Zooscape!
The world turned upside down, and everyone went scrambling, trying to hold on to the past or find a new way of existing in the turmoil. The world does that sometimes. It turns upside down, and you find yourself lost in a swamp of confusion.
One of the most surefire ways of turning your own world upside down is to have children. They’ll turn your world upside down over and over again.
I started Zooscape when my younger child started kindergarten, and I suddenly had a lot more free time on my hands. I put Zooscape submissions on a long-term, indefinite-length hiatus when I discovered my older child needed more help getting through high school than I’d expected.
My world turned upside down, and the rest of the world got Zooscape. My world turned upside down again, and the rest of the world had to wait to see if Zooscape would come back again or not. Meanwhile, I made sure to store a bunch of stories up to keep you all entertained while you wait…
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Frog Song by Koji A. Dae
Don’t Cry by Ian Madison Keller
The Frog Wife by Rebecca E. Treasure
The Cloak by Erin Brown
How Fred the Opossum Mobilized the Microbes and Saved the Universe by Mary Jo Rabe
If Your Child’s a Dragon by Chad Gayle
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…and now that everyone has waited so patiently, we’re happy to announce that Zooscape will be re-opening to submissions on January 1st, 2025.(Note: These plans may have changed. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
As always, if you want to support Zooscape, check out our Patreon. Also, you can pick up e-book or paperback volumes of our first 13 issues bundled into four anthologies, complete with an illustration for every story.