Description
Silver Medal Winner – 2022 Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) Book Awards for Fiction: Short Story/Anthology
Selected – Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, edited by Stephen Kotowych for “Shattered” by Marie Bilodeau
To heal. to mourn. to redeem. to live.
Rogue Artists presents seventeen speculative fiction stories of art used for change, in celebration of the 2022 Origins Game Fair, themed: The Art of Games. This trade edition has a different cover, size, and format than the limited Game Fair edition, and we are pleased to offer these amazing stories to global spec-fic audiences.
Featuring
| Cat Rambo | “Art Holds Our Broken Hearts Together” |
| C. S. E. Cooney | “Catharsis” |
| Sarah Hans | “ARTBOT” |
| Aaron Rosenberg | “Art In” |
| Marie Bilodeau | “Shattered” |
| Donald J. Bingle | “Flower Girl” |
| Michael R. Underwood | “Opening Night” |
| R. L. King | “Gallery” |
| Addie J. King | “Butterflies Through the Gray” |
| Carlos Herndandez | “The New Pointillist Manifesto” |
| Daniel Myers | “A Matter of Value” |
| E.D.E. Bell | “Grace, who sings” |
| Tracy R. Ross | “Redemption” |
| Chris A. Jackson | “The Chess Master” |
| Jason Sanford | “Am I The Love” |
| Gregory A. Wilson | “Theft and Memory” |
| Jennifer Brozek | “Seven Stones to Throw” |
Cover Art by Charles Urbach
Reviews:
“The careful curation of these works walks us through a fascinating gallery of the human heart and soul. Many types are art are explored in these works: the art of tattoo, sketch work, and stage. The art of song, and the art of paint. Even the art of gallery curation. Some tales between these pages will enchant you. Some will make you shiver and move on quickly. Some will comfort disturbed souls…and some will disturb comfortable egos. What I can promise you is that each story hung in this gallery has the power to move you.” – Author O.E. Tearmann
“In this anthology, seventeen writers employ the art of storytelling to explore visual and performing arts, across a wide range of perspectives and speculative sub-genres. The various combinations succeed in ways I could not have predicted. For example, while fantastical mystery is not my usual reading choice and improv not even the sort of theatre I prefer, C.S.E. Cooney’s “Catharsis” haunted me to the point that I sought out (and loved!) some of her other writings. Cat Rambo I’d admired for a while, but “Art Holds Our Broken Hearts Together” gave me the story of space refugees that I didn’t know I needed. Finally, E.D.E. Bell’s “Grace, who sings” brought my younger self’s fascination with empaths and healers forward to a more mature (and elegant) take on individual’s roles and responsibilities to others.” – Author Clara Ward
