NEW RELEASE: The Compendium, 2022

 LegendFire Critique Community is pleased to announce the release of its 2022 issue of THE COMPENDIUM. 

The subtitle, "Mundane Nightmares: Roots of Abandoned Dreams," is a way of creating unity among the past year's contest prompts. The challenges of 2022 pushed us to try genres we weren't comfortable with. None of us had ever written a Noir piece, yet this issue offers three of the community's attempts at the Noir genre. The issue also covers the regular territory of fantasy fiction, poetry, and memoir. The community's beloved 100 Word Weekly Challenge turned out a host of micro fiction as well.

We had no members volunteer art in time for publication, so we selected some gorgeous photography that illustrated the primary prompts. All interior images come from Unsplash and are copyright free, and all artists have been credited.

As always, The Compendium is FREE to download from Smashwords.

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The 2022 issue of LegendFire Critique Community's Compendium offers a selection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Explore the dark nature of dreams, meet hardboiled criminals and cops, encounter stunning poetry, and consider the mundane made extraordinary.

The issue's longer works cover a broad variety of genres and a wide range of themes, from dreams gone wrong to leadership entitlement, human trafficking and persecution of minority groups. For readers short on time, a selection of hard-hitting micro fiction can be enjoyed in under a minute.

This sampling of LegendFire’s 2021-2022 contest entries promises flights of fancy inspired by prompts sprung on the community’s writers with little warning. The resulting prose and stanzas are thought-provoking, often startling and, we hope, inspiring in return.

Contributing authors: Patricia Denny-Purvis, Edward Drummond, Court Ellyn, Finn Warrick, Aidan Zingler

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New Release: The Compendium 2021

 The Compendium: LegendFire's Annual Anthology, 2021 released for free at Smashwords!

LegendFire Critique Community is as pleased as punch to to announce the release of the premiere issue of its annual anthology, The Compendium. The subtitle of the 2021 issue, inspired by the community's first year of contest prompts, is "Rise From Ruin: Between Misadventures." We tried to fit every prompt in there, but the title was already a mouthful.

The first issue features 6 poems, 2 memoir anecdotes, 5 full-length short stories, and easily a dozen ultra-short pieces that can be read in seconds yet provide the full satisfaction of a longer tale. All this alongside 2 original art pieces rendered by digital artist Aidan Zingler.

As the critique community's membership grows, so too will the length and variety of the Compendium.

Blurb:

In the premiere issue of LegendFire Critique Community’s Compendium, journey through caves inhabited by ravenous darkness, flee the burning rays of a demon sun, tumble headlong through turbulent seas and accidental misadventures in true-to-life confessions, and much more. Encounter poetry to challenge and delight, tales from a broad variety of genres, memoirs that will elicit sympathy and laughter, and ultra-shorts that can be enjoyed in under a minute.

This sampling of LegendFire’s 2020-2021 contest entries promises flights of fancy inspired by prompts sprung on the community’s writers with little warning. The resulting prose and stanzas are thought-provoking, often startling and, we hope, inspiring in return.

Contributing authors:

Patricia Denny-Purvis, Court Ellyn, Tony Glass, Joyce Lewis, Melanie Rebro, Laurel Stark, Finn Warrick, Jeffrey V. Yorio, Aidan Zingler

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The Compendium may be downloaded for free at Smashwords:

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