Endria Isa Richardson | A Pedra
Audio Recording, “Lydia and Ecco at Insight,” February 3, 2134 I didn’t run. If the boy had not called to you, you would have run. I would not have run. | © 2024 by Endria Isa Richardson. Narrated by ...
4 Apr 202445min
Mitchell Shanklin | a testament to indirection, an enigma, the sun above
So, this is awkward. We aren’t at the stage in our relationship where I’d feel comfortable revising your life-poem on the fly. Even as a backup plan . . . yet here we are. | © 2024 by Mitchell Shankli...
1 Apr 20249min
Sharang Biswas | Season of Weddings
To be fair, the first one is work, so he doesn’t even get to pick his outfit. But an olive-scented breeze squirrels joyfully through his hair; waiters bring out little triangles of flatbread smeared w...
28 Mar 202425min
Adam-Troy Castro | The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics
If a robot stands alone in a field, staring into the forlorn distance as it obeys the last order it was given by a human, that order being, “Don’t move until we come back for you,” which it can rememb...
22 Mar 202420min
P H Lee | Only Some of True Love's Miracles
True love’s kiss works miracles. Everyone knows the story: The sculptor who carved a perfect woman, his own creation, and when he fell in love with her (and how could he have failed to fall in love wi...
22 Mar 202413min
Angela Liu | An Incomplete Body Has No Answers
You don’t know why you ask because you already know he can’t answer. A body is only a body when it has all its parts. And he—that beloved man you once hiked through Angkor Wat’s abandoned halls and ro...
14 Mar 202412min
Alex Irvine | Kopki and the Fish
The story as it is told in the dry valleys north of Averon, where the only roads run down to the Cricket River and the only power is the freehold of Skadar, begins with a merchant envoy from the south...
14 Mar 202438min
