August is nearly over, and we hope you’re enjoying what’s left of summer (or winter, if you’re in the southern hemisphere).

Issue 27 brings us tales of animals – the ones who help us and those who hinder us, and the animals we are; getting to know the witch next door; ghosts who seek forgiveness; a tattoo-aficionado Bluebeard living in Portland; the Goldilocks story told from baby bear’s perspective; the frog prince in reverse…

Featuring poetry, fiction, and art by Wendy Holborow, Eric Bryan, Hannah Stone, Stephen Bone, Jennifer Wilson, Sash Steele, Julie Sampson, Melody David, Cindy Veach, Claire Cox, Peter Roe, Siân Thomas, Attracta Fahy, Rickey Rivers Jr, Janina Aza Karpinska, Stephanie Blythe, Katja Brown, Louise Murray, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Anna Saunders, Z.D. Dicks, Darby DeJarnette, Peter Clive, Richard Westcott, Suzzanna Matthews, Laetitia N.M. Beck, Molly Murray, K.T. Slattery, Paul Alex Gray, Frank McMahon, Chloe Gorman, L.C. Ricardo, Benjamin Davis, Clive Donovan, Leah Mueller, Paul Robert Mullen, The Carlie Nooka Martece Collective, Fabrice Poussin, and Karolina Adreasova.

Three Drops from a Cauldron is edited by Kate Garrett.

Happy reading!

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