Cat Rambo briefly reviews Sybil’s Garage 6 over at Fantasy Magazine. She picks out a few highlights, including ‘Drinking Black Coffee at the Jasper Grey Cafe’:

The magazine finishes with Stephanie Campisi’s “Drinking Black Coffee at the Jasper Grey Cafe,” a place both inviting and umheimlich at the same time, much like the magazine at its best:

The cafe that you should never visit is famous for its perfect coffee, ground with mortar and pestle before you and brewed in an enormous old-fashioned espresso maker that bubbles the boiling liquid up through a spout until it fountains down and around, beautifully and precisely heated, and is then poured with an elegant turn of the wrist, where its subtle froth frills against the side of the thick, glazed cups, the type that has feet at the bottom, the type that is the hybrid child of a wine glass and mug; the froth licks the side of the cups like the lapping of the ocean.

In other writerly news, I put together my first grant application today (one whole day before the deadline). It’s for a YA book to be called The War of the Kites, and which I’ll probably start writing once I’m done with Spatterbaum and Zitherbother and an another idea or two I’m toying with.

Oh, and for any under 18s, I’ll be doing a workshop with Express Media/Voiceworks at Syn Radio this weekend. Feel free to pop along.