Literary Magazine and Webzine Publications 2019

1.  "The Screaming Pool" in Bewildering Stories"  April 2019 http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue809/screaming_pool.html

2.  "The Ancient Science of Soul Travel" in Fiction on the Web U. K. April 2019 https://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2019/04/the-ancient-science-of-soul-travel-by.html

3.  "The Soul Lift Blues" in Freedom Fiction May 2019 https://www.freedomfiction.com/2019/05/the-soul-lift-blues-by-harrison-kim/

4.  "A Major Error In Judgement" in Literally Stories June 13,2019 https://literallystories2014.com/2019/06/13/a-major-error-in-judgement-by-harrison-kim/

5.  "What I Did Not Become" in Freedom Fiction July 2019 https://www.freedomfiction.com/2019/07/what-i-did-not-become-by-harrison-kim/ 

6. "Chess With Al" in Literally Stories July 11, 2019 

https://literallystories2014.com/2019/07/11/chess-with-al-by-harrison-kim/

7.  "The Boys On The Bridge" in The Writers' Magazine August 2019  (Print Edition)

8.  "The Tarantula Cure" in Bewildering Stories August 2019
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue821/tarantula_cure.html

9.  "Telling The Truth" in Fiction on the Web U. K. August 30, 2019
https://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2019/08/telling-truth-by-harrison-kim.html

10.  "When Normal Becomes Real" in Literally Stories September 5, 2019
https://literallystories2014.com/2019/09/05/when-normal-becomes-real-by-harrison-kim/

11.  "This Is What I Own" in Gone Lawn Literary Magazine September 21, 2019

https://gonelawn.net/journal/issue34/Kim.php

12.  "East of Durango" in The Writers' Magazine September 2019  (Print Edition)

13.  "The Windega" in Aphelion Science Fiction and Fantasy Webzine October 2019
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2019/10/TheWindega.html

14.  "Dichotomies" in "The Writers' Magazine" October 2019 (Print Edition)

15.  "The Upside Down Push  Up Busker in "Literally Stories" October 18, 2019
https://literallystories2014.com/2019/10/18/the-upside-down-push-up-busker-by-harrison-kim/

 16.  "The Street Charity League" at "Piker Press" October 21, 2019
http://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=7699

17.  "The Future Vault" at "Freedom Fiction"  October 25, 2019 http://www.freedomfiction.com/2019/10/the-future-vault-by-harrison-kim/

18.  "Beware the Owl Serpent" at "Terror House Magazine" October 31, 2019
https://terrorhousemag.com/owl-serpent/

19.  "Someone Is Staring At Me" at "The Writers' Magazine" November 2019 issue (Print Edition)

20.  "The Eater" at "The Piker Press"  November 11, 2019
http://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=7723

21.  "Breakfast At The Hospital For The Criminally Insane," at "Literally Stories"  November 15, 2019.
https://literallystories2014.com/2019/11/15/breakfast-at-the-hospital-for-the-criminally-insane-by-harrison-kim/

22. "Cabron's Coup," at "Bewildering Stories,"  November 17, 2019 http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue833/cabrons_coup.html

23. "Caught," at "Terror House Magazine"  November 21, 2019
https://terrorhousemag.com/caught/

24.  "The Betrayal of the Quilquen" at "Liquid Imagination"  November 29, 2019.
http://liquidimagination.silverpen.org/article/the-betrayal-of-the-quilquen-by-harrison-kim/

25.  "Wisikewena" at "Aphelion Science Fiction and Fantasy Webzine," December 1, 2019.
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2019/12/Wisikewena.html

26.  "Deep Is The River" in "Island Writer," Volume 17, Issue 2, Winter 2019 (Print Edition).

27.  "The Unwanted Bond" in "Horla Horror Magazine" December 10, 2019
(Magazine now discontinued as of 2022)

28.  "The Caiman Hide Boots" in "Literally Stories,"  December 11, 2019
https://literallystories2014.com/2019/12/11/the-caiman-hide-boots-by-harrison-kim/

29. "A Writer's Stay In Victoria's Spectral Autumn," article published December 2019 in "Horla Horror Magazine."
(magazine now discontinued as of 2022)

30.  "The Problem With Adam," story in "The Piker Press," December 30, 2019
http://pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=7811

Harrison Kim's Music Videos

https://youtu.be/6N5dRf2mpuk  Just Because He Is So Grim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0svOYjPpAE  North to Walhachin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUQqQ6zeFY  The Monkey Boy Beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnnfEtcNLs  Hell Don't Seem So Bad (When You're In Love)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxt3bR3p5M   Bobby Doesn't Like Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqup-W-8xkc  The Way of The Orchard Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzqob1Nlmo  Down In Keremeos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTbtoU4942g  Let's Do The Jowly Wowly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNIBG03iHo  The House Upon The Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYbghEDcoX4  My Dog Bonehead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEJvan798Bg  This Mysterious Thing

Mystic Saturna Island

Mystic Saturna Island    by Harrison Kim  

In Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Prospero, the Wizard, and his daughter Miranda are stranded on an island paradise.  Saturna Island would be a perfect place to present the play, high up on Mt. Warburton Pike, the 337-meter mountain rising straight up from the sea.  It is easy to imagine Prospero casting his spells out to the waters. This is a truly mystic place, much of it part of the new Gulf Islands National Park.

Wild goats navigating spectacular bluffs, fog swirling round historic lighthouses, vistas of turquoise blue seas and shadowy islands in the sunset, as far as the eye can see…just a few of the dreamy sights on this small but naturally diverse island.  For a writer, it’s a great place to find quiet, view wildlife, let hours and days flow by while you write and hike and bicycle. There’s a restaurant, a store and several resorts, and only about three hundred and eighty full time residents.  They’re extremely friendly, during the “Tour des Isles,” a June Gulf Islands trip-a-thon, the tour guide showed my wife and I around Saturna.  This “Tour des Isles” is a must for a retreat, you meet locals, imbibe samples at wineries, take in musical events.  

East Point Park, at the far northeast of the island, is a great place for whale watching.  At Winter Cove, a peaceful boat harbour,  a walker can follow a trail to view and hear tidal currents roar between Saturna and Samuel Island, and at Narvaez Bay or the Pike a hiker can gaze out over the Gulf and San Juan islands system. There’s a good trail from the high point of the Pike right through to Narvaez Bay, through varied landscapes ranging from grasslands and firs to rainforest to marshy streams lined with ferns and skunk cabbage.

I camped on Saturna's high point, Warburton Pike, many times before it became part of Gulf Islands National Park. Now, you can’t camp up on the Pike, but you can meditate there as summer light follows the sun’s sky circle, dawn til dusk.  Narvaez Bay has a federal government campsite, for those who like to rough it.  There are also a number of good B and B’s on the island, such as Saturna Lodge and Breezy Bay, most open three seasons of the year.

There are pebble beaches at East Point, an area of eroded sandstone rock formations, and at Russell Reef on the north coastline many intertidal pools where little crabs and colorful sea anemones dwell. At Taylor Point you’ll find stands of old growth trees, and a historic quarry where sandstone was taken to build the Legislative Buildings in Victoria.  You’ll have to get there by kayak…. there’s much excellent kayaking around Saturna.  You can paddle out to Tumbo Island, an ecologically protected area with sandy, driftwood covered bays, a great place for beachcombers.  Seals, orcas, and other wildlife swim by.  The birdwatcher may see oyster catchers, pacific wrens, hooded mergansers, buffleheads, and more.

For the writer, the quiet of Saturna might be is the most inspiring thing.  When you’re in quiet, all sorts of sounds slowly become apparent, sounds that you did not hear before, birds calling, deer munching, the movement of a cricket in the grass.


When there is quiet, there is room to think, there are few distractions, and if you are by the sea at Saturna, there’s the rhythm of the waves to move you into reverie, and new perception.  And at night, of course, all the stars, casting sparkles over the dark sea and the shadowed, fir covered island. 

Ferries to Saturna Island leave Tsawassen Terminal on the Mainland once a day, and Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island at least twice per day, depending on the season.

A WRITER'S STAY IN VICTORIA'S SPECTRAL AUTUMN by Harrison Kim

How about a writing stay in haunted Victoria, B. C.?  If you need inspiration for tales of the supernatural or the ghostly, this old town has a wealth of weird and eerie places to explore.  Immerse yourself in Victoria’s Samhain spirit to tickle up shivery influence for new story ideas.  Craigdarroch Castle, home of coal barons the Dunsmuirs, is a great place to start.  The most encountered family ghost there is that of Joan Dunsmuir, the patriarch’s wife.  

Apparently Joan’s been seen from time to time stepping down the main staircase in a ball gown.  That’s only one of the castle’s supernatural phenomena. If you smell candle wax, and there’s no candles burning, no worries.  It’s merely an odd gassy ghost waft experienced by many visitors.  Eerie piano music sometimes echoes through the halls, though the castle never had a piano.  Craigdarroch was built on the dark wealth from the Dunsmuirs’ coal mines.  It is now a National Historic Site, fully restored to its Victorian glory with gargoyles, turrets, exotic wood panelling and stained glass.  Lots of corners to peek around and catch a glimpse of the spectral Joan D.

Hatley Castle is the next haunted castle on the Victoria list.  It’s out in the suburb of Colwood, on the site of Royal Roads University, and was completed in 1908, again by the Dunsmuir Family, who apparently haunt all their creations.  My research finds that Hatley Castle phantoms have a weakness for banging pots and pans and pulling blankets off the beds of sleeping guests. 

For ghost touring author accommodation, an appropriately mysterious place to stay would be the Fairmont Empress Hotel, a huge hundred year old Gormenghast like structure looming over Victoria’s waterfront.  One of the restless ghosts is a maid who won’t stop cleaning, very useful for a hotel trying to make a profit.  The hotel’s architect, Francis Rattenbury, is supposed to walk the halls hitting his cane against the woodwork.  Not so good for light sleepers, but then, you’re here to see ghosts! When you hear the knocking, open your door and say hi to the architect. Some say Rattenbury also haunts the B. C. Legislature,  just across the street.  He’s seeking recognition for planning the edifice, according to phantom experts.  

Don’t miss the guided ghostly walks around Victoria.  These run from May 1st until October 31st, and often feature historian John Adams, who has vast expert knowledge of uncanny Victoria. He and his confederates pull on skull caps and ghost robes and lead groups of curious acolytes to various spectral sites around the downtown area.  Often, locals will listen in to tour guides talking about the screaming doppelgänger of Beacon Hill Park, or the long ago executed phantoms buried under the Maritime Museum of B. C. A conveniently located hanging tree grew here a hundred twenty years ago, when the place was B. C.’s Supreme Court.  After executions, the bodies were dropped into nearby graves.

Historian Adams sometimes leads tours with the Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria.  Every Sunday at Two P. M. the Society meets at various graveyards around the city for interesting guided walks among the tombstones.  Ross Bay cemetery is the most well-known and scenic necropolis, designed in Victorian style with carriage ways bordered by oak trees and marble tombs.   Views of the Olympic Mountains appear in the distance. Herds of feral deer munch graveyard grass.  The bodies of artist Emily Carr and B. C.’s first Governor Douglas lie here under autumn’s red and orange leaves.  Emily is supposed to haunt several places in Victoria, including Room 115 of ye olde James Bay Inn, St. Anne’s Academy, which is a hundred year old former Catholic convent, and the soon to be rebuilt Customs House.  She’s a busy ghost.

Why so many specters, appearing sometimes in two places at once?  Apparently, rocky cracks, or “ley lines”, in the earth’s surface beneath Victoria give off powerful magnetic energy that encourages phantasms from the shadowlands, and enhances their influence and scope.  The historical range of the ghouls covers from ancient to modern times.  One story tells that around Laurel Point, in James Bay, indigenous people buried their dead in boxes in the trees.  After settlers chopped down the trees to build their houses and farms, upset ghosts screamed and set fires.  Who can blame them?

From October 20th to 30th the Old Cemetery Society schedules ghost bus tours past many haunted sites, very convenient for the writer who wants the complete fright experience without a lot of footwork. Reservations are recommended.

For a lighter change of pace, a visit to the various pumpkin farms around Victoria is fun.  In fact, the event is called Pumpkinfest.  Galey Farms features the festival of fear, featuring the cornfield of horror.  Sounds like a blast!

 Victoria immerses itself deeply into the spirit of scary October. On Oak Bay Avenue, dozens of pumpkin carvings of faces from TV personalities to Frankenstein and Prime Ministers can be seen at “Pumpkin Art on the Avenue.”  After you leave this exhibition, don’t go by the Oak Bay Golf course unless you like being single.  An apparition, believed to be a woman known as Doris Gravelin, might waft in front of you.  Folks that see her apparently never marry.

Downtown, there’s an event called “Wicked Victoria,” which features a car free zone on Government Street, with live Hallowe’en music and a market.  Many people dress up in their favorite costumes for this event.  Sometime each October, there’s also the “Zombie Walk.”  Better leave what that’s all about to the imagination.  Let’s just say, don’t take the kids. 

For a writer seeking inspiration for horror or ghostly tales, there’s a lot to recommend.  I’d urge prospective travelers to read the book “Victoria’s Most Haunted: Ghost Stories from B. C.” to get some background and help draw up an itinerary.  Have fun writing up your horror mysteries!