H Andrew Lynch

Black Dandy is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to excellence in magic realism, surrealism, and the otherwise strange. Based in New Zealand, we're proud to feature top talent from around the world. Our premiere issue features 10 stories from today's most compelling writers. Relive 9/11 through the eyes of a chronic nail-biter, a Russian weightlifter, and a bureaucrat who once made brilliant but useless devices...Uncover the secrets of a spectral European village with a disenchanted traveler...Take a walk to the 1950s, where a young man mesmerizes a small American town with his unique artistic gifts...Join a woman as she recounts a peculiar love from her past. In a slowly sinking coastal town, a sheriff grapples with a Poodle murder, twins with bizarre qualities, and the fitness of his police force...After finishing your workout at the local gym, you realize you can't leave because the building is encased in impenetrable fat...A drifter tries to warn his community that a homeless man in their midst is a disaster waiting to happen...Her dead grandfather was a serial killer, but that's not going to stand between her and an attempt to escape destiny...On the day of a soldier's execution, those who knew him meet for drinks and slowly slide into a situation they can't explain...She's obsessed with the remarkable pleasures of a long-ago lover and she'll do whatever it takes to relive them.

Black Dandy is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to excellence in magic realism, surrealism, and the otherwise strange. Based in New Zealand, we're proud to feature top talent from around the world. The much-anticipated follow-up to our debut issue features 10 stories from today's most compelling writers. A man rediscovers the life lessons his parents taught him when they created a room that conserves wasted time...A gorgeous, icy woman grapples with her identity when an imaginary friend from childhood resurfaces...Is the unconditional love of a mother all that keeps a man from self destruction?...A young boy scarred by his father's abrupt departure pursues the man, but at what cost?...They thought their new life in a small town would annul the turmoil of the old one, but that may not be so easy...He can see, hear, and do things no one else can, and his diary sessions with a therapist cut to the heart of it...An elderly couple discover an amazing tomato in their garden, turning their waning years on their head...She spots the janitor from her high-school days in a restaurant years later and is only interested in reclaiming his long lost pleasures...Steeped in the principles of self-preservation, a clever man wends his way through the weaknesses of others...After creating a most peculiar form of fashion, a shy rural man hits it big in New York City.