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  • Simple, Fast search of the FictionMags Index

    Simple, fast search of the FictionMags Index. It’s finally here. https://pulpflakes.com/fmisearch/ The FictionMags Index (FMI) is the biggest online index of English language fiction published in periodicals. Search the FMI by author or artist name, magazine title or look for a specific issue by date or issue number. Tips and tricks While search tolerates partial……

  • Homesteading in the 1920s: part 3 by Cherry Wilson

    Part 3 of a personal account of homesteading in the 1920s by western author Cherry Wilson. But to go back to those first glo­rious days of Spring, after the event­ful Winter; when the very air made one’s head light. The call of the out­door was so strong that while snow still lay in canyon pockets……

  • Homesteading in the 1920s: part 2 by Cherry Wilson

    Part 2 of a personal account of homesteading in the 1920s by western author Cherry Wilson. Two days later, when order was established, we looked with pardon­able pride upon our work. For out of that rude shack we had made a home. The bare logs were hung with bright pennants, cheery cur­tains of cretonne draped……

  • Cherry Wilson: Life as a homesteader In the 1920s

    When you think of a homestead, you probably think of something like this, the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born; but Cherry Wilson and her husband Bob homesteaded in the 1920s, driven by Bob’s tuberculosis into a place where they needed fresh air and quiet. This is her account of their experience, published in……

  • The Land of the Midnight Pulps: Stories set in Canada

    This article by Bernard Drew originally appeared in the Toronto Star and other newspapers in Canada around the end of August 1977. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Canadians? The Shadow knows… “Pulp” fiction magazines, so-called because of the cheap paper they were printed on, were wildly popular in Canada and the……