Far Fetched Fables

Story: “There’s a Hole in the City” by Richard Bowes(Originally published in Sci Fiction, June 15, 2005)Wednesday 9/12On the evening of the day after the towers fell, I was waiting by the barricades o...

5 Apr 201639min

“While the Gods Laugh” by Michael Moorcock(Originally published in Science Fantasy, October 1961.)One night, as Elric sat moodily drinking alone in a tavern, a wingless woman of Myyrrhn came gliding o...

29 Mar 20161h 21min

First Story: “Unraveling” by David Steffen(Originally published in the July 2014 Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.)He passed from his study to his map room. One full wall of the room was covered ...

22 Mar 201655min

Cover art for this month is by Kassandra Leigh, a photographer, model, and self-professed dweeb with no social skills, chronic ailments, and a supreme appreciation of “me” time. She likes to take peec...

15 Mar 201646min

Flash Fiction: “Genie from the Gym” by M.K. Hutchins(Originally published at Daily Science Fiction.)First Wish:I wasn’t stupid. Someone had abandoned that lamp in the gym locker room for a reason. I t...

8 Mar 20161h 3min

Flash Fiction: “Daddy’s Glasses” by Molly Flynn(Originally published at Every Day Fiction.)I peer into my drawer of glasses, deciding, and empty eyes stare back. Most people don’t notice the images pr...

1 Mar 20161h 2min

Flash Fiction: “An Old Warrior’s Final Countdown” by Kat Otis(Originally published at Every Day Fiction.com.)Ten spiraling stone steps led down to the dungeon. I dashed down them, the flames of the wa...

23 Feb 201658min

“Manannan’s Children” by Russell Blackford(Originally published in Dreaming Again.)Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose…— W.B. YeatsThey’d chased a deer, which had bolted in terror from the forest, t...

16 Feb 20161h 10min