Asian Fantasy & Science Fiction
HORROR MATSURI #9 / INSTINCTS (POETRY) #14 It's Week 5 of Horror Matsuri, and sadly today is the last poem, but it's a good one! This is John H. Dromey's second poem for the month. The first, 'Spooky Yuki-onna' can be read here. A Yōkai's Haiku Halloween Abroad John H. Dromey Just one day... Continue Reading →
HORROR MATSURI #6 / INSTINCTS POETRY #13 How is it Week 4 already? Time to crank things up! We have 3 posts this week, and 4 coming next week...Stay tuned! Today I'm sharing my own freestyle poem. I was inspired by the Indian and Persian myths of a creature similar to a sphinx or chimera,... Continue Reading →
HORROR MATSURI #5 / INSTINCTS (POETRY) #12 Welcome to Week 3 at Horror Matsuri! Only 2 posts this week, but we have a lot of content coming from Oct 23rd to 31st. Today's poem introduces a new Insignia Stories contributor, Maggie D. Brace. Maggie tells me that this poem was inspired by an article from... Continue Reading →
HORROR MATSURI #1 / INSTINCTS (POETRY) #11 It's Week 2 of Horror Matsuri, and time for more poetry! John H. Dromey is a regular Insignia Stories contributor, with micro-fiction in both Insignia Drabbles volumes and a great Japanese story in our recent Castles & Kimono anthology. He also has another poem scheduled for Horror Matsuri... Continue Reading →
HORROR MATSURI #1 / INSTINCTS (POETRY) #10 Kicking of Horror Matsuri, we have a poem by Therese Choon! This poem describes a night on 'Tomb-sweeping Day' which is a Spring Equinox holiday in Asia, but we're happy to share it on the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. 🙂 Therese also has a new flash... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone! I added a new page to the Insignia Stories site today: Horror Matsuri Calendar This page has the upcoming schedule for Horror Matsuri flash fiction and also INSTINCTS poems for October, and I'll be adding in participant's blog tour dates as requested. (I've included my own blog visit on Oct 3rd as a... Continue Reading →
Hello everyone, hope you're all having a good month so far. Things are a bit tough in Japan at the moment with lots of corona virus cases here in Aichi (Nagoya) where I live. I'm an ESL teacher so all my classes are cancelled this month as a precaution--but the shops are all open, I... Continue Reading →
December's edition of Instincts includes two poems from a new contributor, DJ Tyrer, who will also have a story appearing in Insignia: Japanese Fantasy Drabbles. Gobi Sands By DJ Tyrer Great Khan on camelback Has no fear of thirst Dares all enemies to strike Knowing none shall survive Protected as he is By the... Continue Reading →
NEWS Submission Calls Submissions for 'Japanese Fantasy Drabbles' are officially closed. I want to say a big thank you to all the contributing authors for submitting such a fantastic selection of drabbles. Otsukaresama desu! I'll probably write a post in December about the submission call, for those who are curious about the data and behind-the-scenes... Continue Reading →
Welcome to our second INSTINCTS publication: a free-style poem by new contributor, Kim Whysall-Hammond. Kim says the poem was inspired by Malaysian folktales told to her by a friend. Enjoy! Graveyard shift In old Malay, draped in forest lies heat swamped George Town along tree lined avenues abandoned colonial mansions forsaken, cracked, diminished irrelevant... Continue Reading →
