BCS #119 is out today, featuring two authors new to BCS.

Michael Haynes’s “The Barber and the Count” tells of a working man combating his grief at work, and Rich Larson’s “The Mermaid Caper” follows a cadre of characters who may be in over their heads in attempting to deceive a noble.

The BCS Audio Fiction Podcast is the Michael Haynes story, BCS 102: The Barber and the Count, which builds to a taut concise climax.

And our spring cover art, “Marching Off,” by Maciej Wojtala, continues to pan gradually to the left with each successive issue, revealing the mechanical fantasy hybrid waiting in the wings....