An Owomoyela | Unauthorized Access
Prison 17 had been built long enough ago that it got next to no natural light—before all the studies that said that light was good for prison behavior and morale. And of course the rest of its distric...
27 Syys 20161h 18min
Jaymee Goh | Crocodile Tears
Everything we crocodiles taste in the water has meaning. It tells us about the people who live here: who does the washing, who harvests the water crops, what they are growing in their fields and beluk...
20 Syys 201619min
Sean Williams | The Lives of Riley
The sirens are growing louder. Riley doesn’t know how the peacekeepers found out---he was so careful, so sure he’d covered every trace of his existence, all of it---but that’s less important now than ...
13 Syys 201615min
Maria Dahvana Headley | See The Unseeable, Know The Unknowable
There are woods, and the woods are dark, though there are lights hung from the trees. Many of the lights no longer light up. Around the edge of the clearing, someone has strung a long chain of origami...
6 Syys 201640min
Tristina Wright | The Siren Son
The day the dragons came, Neal kissed a boy. This span of months would later be remembered as the Awakening and condensed to precisely three pages in a tenth-cycle history text. Those three pages woul...
23 Elo 20161h
Jeremiah Tolbert | Taste the Singularity at the Food Truck Circus
“There’s a stall in the new market where they cook just about anything on a stick.” These were the words, spoken by coworkers returning to the office from an early lunch, that drew me from my cubicle ...
16 Elo 20161h 5min
Adam-Troy Castro | The Assassin’s Secret
The world’s greatest assassin lives on a private island. That’s so much a given that you must have known it already. You’ve seen all those movies about master thieves, brilliant scammers, unflappable ...
9 Elo 201637min
Mercurio D. Rivera | Those Brighter Stars
The call came through as I paced outside the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, puffing on an e-cig and watching my breath turn to vapor in the chill. “Hello?” The bald, skeletal image of a st...
2 Elo 201646min
