Polluto is the award-winning literary magazine from Dog Horn Publishing. Since 2008 we have been scouring the dark, twisted and just plain weird corners of the world for the kind of writing that we love. Clutch your credit-chips close and head on over to see what Polluto has on offer: a world of malls, stretching endlessly into one another. Systems of oppression, both real and fictional. Corporations of the future, Flooded London, money and privilege, a human life claimed for art. A mathematician feverishly tattooing his formulae onto prisoners of war. Workers on special offer: cheap-labour, clone-labour and corpse-labour. And bear in mind, valued customers, that nothing comes for free

Strange, sinister shadows jump and skitter in the firelight. Broomsticks and black hats are silhouetted against the moon, and in the darkness witchfinders hunt their hated enemy. Under the influence of their Ghastly Tome, the army of the Red gathers its forces in the night. Join us as our all-American hero battles against the Reds within their midst. Zombies, magic, witch-hunts, spies, communists, boarding schools, supervillains and bad comic book tie-ins all lie in wait for our intrepid adventurer. Can he save the day before it's too late?

Cutlass-wielding youths in tweed suits prowl the dingy redlight districts of Mars, intrepid colonialist explorers hunt giant squid in the clockwork submarines of an alternate past . . . and Polluto rises from the mists, casting ghostly phosphorescence through the gloom, and calls you. It's time to reach out and take the fruit. It's time to wind yourself up and escape. The toys want out and they're hungry for knowledge

Congratulations to Deb Hoag, whose story 'Phat is a Four Letter Word' has been chosen as the editor's choice for Issue 7 All poems and stories were given anonymously to the Editor-in-Chief to read, and he picked Deb's as his favourite, feeling that it perfectly fits the energy and dark humour of Polluto. Deb's story can be read in Polluto 7, due out soon From bone-crushing lovers to a cross-dressing hitman, the night-soil man of the gods and sex conditioning on squids, the dangerous desires of the diabolically large and seductively small, body-swapping, gender-swapping, exploration, transcendence and re-incarnation, machines that are gods and machines that are cats . . . some of the strangest and scariest authors are gathered here - enter if you dare

This issue we're entering into the unknown and the otherworldly, exploring strange worlds and stranger beings--not to mention the twisted, terrifying depths of some of the weirdest authors' minds. Subversive and thought provoking? Yes. Crazy as a box of Buck Roger's Intergalactic Fruit Loops? Most definitely. Dark, dreamy, and disgustingly depraved? Would it really be Polluto if it wasn't? Aliens, monsters, gods, dreams and nightmares; sex and transformation; strange worlds and the search for truth; death, blood and violence; the future of humanity; astrophobia, metatronians, sphere serpents and zombie amazons. Prepare for the unexpected . . . and remember, in space no-one can hear you dream.

Polluto has packed a snorkel and will head to Atlantis for a quick visit to fight killer mermaids and their legions of underwater nasties. Unfortunately we forgot our passport and bank statements. Mind if we borrow yours? Showdown in 'High Noon' between the Sheriff and the Octopus Kid from Michelle Mead. Demons without and within in 'Greg's Life, the King James Version' from Erin Cashier. A harbour town infected by periwinkles, and mermaids in the Thames from Peter Lavelle and Helen Harvey. Gender roles, prosthetic male-enhancements and Wundermants in Susan Soloman's 'Honker'. Poems of exploration, transformation and identity from Kristine Ong Muslim, Christian Ward and Jane Chakravarthy. Undersea grand larceny, Atlantis, and Lovecraftian deep-sea sects from Malon Edwards, Edward Morris and Robert Lamb. How freak jellyfish mutation is so out this season in 'The June Parrott Scrapbook' by Victoria Truslow. Homeless shelter abductions, portals and wormholes; the aliens are emerging - and they want your vote! Stories from Rena Sherwood and Alexander Hay. An exploration of personal struggle against abuse and victimisation from Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran. And more stories of mutation, transformation, misunderstandings, fear and intolerance from Kurt Newton, Annabel Wigoder, Yvette Managan, and Erik Williams.