Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense: Issue #4 / Summer 2020

Novelettes

Battle Beyond the Continuum
By DARREN GOOSSENS
Rex Funnel and Paul Aglet have travelled across time and space, testing their new continuon flux drive-and found themselves in the midst of a planetary conflict

The Meeting
By LIVIU SURUGIU
translation by RALUCA BALASA]
Two star-crossed lovers, doomed by their strange malady to never meet, must share their thoughts and feelings by the letters they hide within their asylum chambers

Short Stories

Ascension Star
By JOHN GRADOVILLE
Free trader Remi Gavilan's world is turned upside down when he crosses paths with a pleasure girl...the same day the Jinlintan royal family is systematically murdered

Why Did You Leave Your Last Employer?
By BRIAN M. MILTON
George may have found his dream job-keeping bees for the eccentric Dr. Rotstein But what is the aim of the doctor's experiments? Why does the honey taste strange?

A Judgment of Lestrel
By WILLIAM HUGGINS
Penne has spent his Re-Gen-enhanced lives going on one bender after another-his last chance to break the cycle may be the incomparable world of Lestrel

Henry and the Prince of Cats
By DAN WOLFGANG
A strange incident has left his master dead With his newfound intelligence, Henry, a Scottish Terrier, sets out to solve the mystery of what happened to all the humans

Bad Luck Charm
By JAY BARNSON
Larry Colton has had quite the run of luck He's got a good job and a new girlfriend he thinks is out of his league...Things are great, aside from a few strange nightmares

Death's Shadow
By CAROLINE FURLONG
Iraq War vet Matt Barnaby has been blessed-and cursed-by the ability to see the shadow of death, hanging about the auras of those around him