Kat Howard | One Heart, Lost and Found
I came to the city to find an egg. A robin’s egg, to be precise, an oval of pale, perfect blue that echoed the spring sky. Inside, not a robin, but an emerald. Inside the emerald, a wizard’s heart. He...
4 Mai 202325min
Amanda Helms | The House, the Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks
The house wakes from its somnolence as the witch trudges up the path made of tarts. Through its rock-candy windows, the house scans her figure for any signs of hurt. The witch’s errands in the city ma...
27 Apr 202318min
Brian K. Hudson | Virtually Cherokee
What I observed was a giant anthropomorphized ribbon microphone, the type one might imagine standing in front of a radio announcer and his studio audience, selling soap in the dirty 1930s. It sauntere...
6 Apr 202352min
Benjamin Peek | The Ministry of Saturn
The town was not called Byzantium. The Ministry named it during the first meeting. “It’s not a colony,” Thomas James would have said if he could, but the office was hot and bright, the sun in the wind...
23 Mar 202347min
Daniel H. Wilson | Crystalline
“Who loves you?” I ask. My daughter looks away. Doesn’t answer. I lean down and turn her to face me, resting my thumb in the dimple in her chin. It’s the same dimple her mother has. Or had. “You love ...
2 Mar 202327min
Sam J. Miller | His Guns Could Not Protect Him
I punched my brother because he was an idiot, because he couldn’t see what I saw, how hard mom held onto the dish rag when she came out onto the deck to tell us dad had been in an accident, which is w...
23 Feb 202336min
Carrie Vaughn | Learning Letters
Enid sat on the front porch of Haven’s clinic with a half a dozen books, some paper, and a small chalkboard. Three days a week, when she was in town, she taught reading to Haven’s children who wanted ...
2 Feb 202343min
Jendayi Brooks-Flemister | From the Largest Crater
AUDIO LOG BF-0003 / 2083-14-09 13:36 / This . . . feels strange. They said that it’s healthy for those of us whose spouses take Return Missions to record our thoughts. Audio journaling, they called it...
26 Jan 202338min
