Ricardo Cruz The Reluctant Journey of Manfred Bugsbee by Michael Farfel, Montag Press, 2022 Reviewed by Scott Neuffer Right off the bat, I will tell you: I’m not the best person to review this book. I don’t regularly read fantasy, and I recognize trampset contributor Michael Farfel’s The Reluctant Journey of Manfred Bugsbee is some kind of epic fantasy. That said, I enjoyed the book. And the fantasy genre elements I did recognize — arduous landscapes, battles, mythic swords —

by Michael Farfel Erik Mclean Very late, past the hours of the moth, a loud crash and bang came from the kitchen. Strange noises are common here. Tree branches come unhinged, old houses settle and yawn — birds and their nests, wolves and their packs. This sound though, after everyone had gone to sleep, was different. Like a metallic splash; iron and mercury in their liquid states skidding to a halt, perhaps. Some kind of otherworldly cataclysm opening up beneath the sink. The