Two Magazines

Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons, a weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction has their newest issue up with:

FICTION: Down the Well, by Alaya Dawn Johnson.
I saw her clearly, then: beautiful and terrible, ancient and radical, a goddess as much as any human can be. Killing a hexapedal carnivore with a hand-made spear, hiding for two days from a giant amphibious jellyfish desperate for food, surviving alone in the Well for five years before the computers on this side even registered the malfunction--those rumors had floated around the agency for decades. I'd found it impossible to believe that such a small, unassuming woman had done all they said she did.

ARTICLE: Searching Under the Rug: Interfaces, Puzzles, and the Evolution of Adventure Games, by Mark Newheiser
"What decades of evolution have done for the [adventure game] genre is refine the user interface. The genre's improvements are largely independent of the technology used and have gradually evolved in response to user feedback and designers' efforts to make the puzzles clear yet challenging."

COLUMN: Ordinary Zhang, by Matthew Cheney
"A couple years ago, I picked up another copy of China Mountain Zhang at a used bookstore, but I didn't dare read it. Much of the science fiction I had loved as a teen had turned out, when read as an adult, to feel simplistic, clunky, shallow. I preferred my memories."

POETRY: Dystopian Dusk, by Bruce Boston
if they had slapped blinkers / on our eyes, narrowing our vision

And reviews Here

Space Westerns

And SpaceWesterns, the online zine of space western fiction has two stories up:

"The Horse Theives" by Patrick Scalisi
Patrick Scalisi brings us an excellent blend of Detective, Science Fiction, and Western genres. — ed, N.E. Lilly

and "Corazón" by Jens Rushing
"Jens Rushing brings us a Space Western/Fantasy, in three parts. Part 1 introduces our heroine: Dixie O’Dell. — ed, N.E. Lilly"

Available Here.