TRUNK STORIES is closed to submissions as of 4/28/07. I will reply to all submissions received to date. Issue #4 (Summer 2007) will be the last in the current format. Down the road I plan rethink TS and combine it with my online rare/OP bookselling business, but for now I'm taking a break. Thanks to the readers, authors, and artists who supported the project.
Hang Fire Publications is also an antiquarian bookdealer. Peruse my wares at:
HangFireBooks.com (click here to see my newest additions), or visit my eBay store. FREE zombie bookmark with every order. It will eat you.
"TRUNK STORIES is attractively produced and...darkly eclectic. Definitely a magazine to look out for."
—Kara Kellar Bell for LauraHird.com
"Set in the old American west [and] centering on the struggles between a boy and his vampire sister...Carole Lanham's 'The Good Part'...is simply yet powerfully told...there were passages that seized me, trapping me in a dreamlike state. I loved it."
—Barry J. House for Whispers of Wickedness
"Quirky, interesting fiction on a small budget.... [TRUNK STORIES] is one of those smaller publications that takes risks and wins."
—E. Sedia for Tangent
"As good as any story I have read in a professional publication ('The Good Part' by Carole Lanham). I recommend [TRUNK STORIES] highly."
—Sam Tomaino for SFRevu
"Original and daring.... There's a shortage of genuinely eccentric creativity out there, and TRUNK STORIES goes some way to redressing that."
—Futurefire.net
"TRUNK STORIES is wider than your average magazine...and feels nice in your hands. There's a warm eclecticism here...[that] effortlessly blur[s] the boundaries between real life and fantasy."
—Scifantastic
"A noble little endeavor that deserves the support of writers and readers. All of the fiction has something to recommend it. The magazine feels more substantial...than some anthologies with three times the content." —SFSite
"Entertaining…unclassifiable.... If you're in search of something a little off-center, [let] TRUNK STORIES…show you the world in a different way."
—ChiZine
"TRUNK STORIES holds a wealth of fractured treasure that is at turns poignant, horrific, or downright deranged."
—Broken Pencil
"All punkness goes out the window once you ask permission to do something that woulda been punk otherwise."
—Brett "Screeching Grammarian" Savory
"A new zine that really struck me for its sharp, quirky fiction. Hopefully there'll be many more issues to come."
—Fantastic Metropolis Read and Appreciated in 2003 A Year's Best List By Alan DeNiro
"Nihilistic...inundate[s] the reader's senses with stories of seclusion."
—Steven H Silver for Tangent [on issue #1]
"Full of eclectic fun...Definitely worth checking out. New and unusually fresh."
—Steven Sawicki for SF Revu
"Each new paragraph made me cringe just that much more."
—John Klima, stalwart editor of Electric Velocipede
"Worth your time and money."
—Gwenda Bond, Bondgirl
