Caroline M. Yoachim | Shadow Prisons of the Mind
With the right overlays, the city was charming---apartment buildings done up like giant row houses, seamlessly blending Victorian and modern sensibilities, boutiques and cafés on tree-lined streets, p...
10 Sep 202049min
Adam-Troy Castro | The Author’s Wife vs. the Giant Robot
The year I turned five, my father got taken out by a giant robot. I was present and I took it very personally. You honestly don’t expect that kind of thing when you’re a kid, not even if you’ve seen t...
3 Sep 202047min
Katherine Crighton | Sing in Me, Muse
O Mother, dear Mnemosyne! It is I, Anisah, fifteenth of my line! Here is my song. Long have I waited for this, the end of my first shift; at last I am a daughter grown old enough to sing. I have sat a...
27 Aug 202023min
KT Bryski | The Bone-Stag Walks
The Bone-Stag walks at midwinter, sharp-antlered, hard-hoofed. Deep white snow spreads under deep black sky. Cold air slices lungs; rivers stand as stone. Over cresting drifts comes the Bone-Stag, lea...
20 Aug 202032min
Eden Royce | Miss Beulah’s Braiding and Life Change Salon
The chime above my shop door rings. It heralds a young woman wearing a head wrap boasting a network of silvery constellations on indigo, interspersed with the occasional yellow-gold moon. The wrap its...
13 Aug 202018min
Caroline M. Yoachim | The Shadow Prison Experiment
The shopping district was crowded on a Sunday afternoon, and Vivian Watanabe was out running errands with her sixteen-year-old, Cass. Together they wove through throngs of shoppers wearing customized ...
6 Aug 202043min
Ray Nayler | The Swallows of the Storm
One of the Senators cleared her throat, turned on the microphone in front of her, and began. “Would you like to tell us when you first became aware of the phenomenon, Doctor? Perhaps that would be the...
30 Jul 202048min
Mari Ness | Great Gerta and the Mermaid
That notorious ship that sailed to the wretched isle known as Neverland under the leadership of one James, self-styled Jas., Cook, called the Jolly Roger, has most naturally been a subject of intense ...
23 Jul 202052min
