Weston Ochse | House of Small Spiders
Some houses never have a soul. It’s not their fault. It’s just the way it is. For a soul to be born to a house, almost too many things have to happen. Three or more families have to have lived there. ...
5 Sep 201852min
G.V. Anderson | Crook’s Landing, by Scaffold
My brother was hanged on a Monday and two days later I followed him. When the trapdoor opened for the short drop, the sharp stop never came: instead, my soul slithered loose from my body and I fell th...
15 Aug 201836min
Nino Cipri | Dead Air
Nita: So you thought I made you sign a release as, what, foreplay? [Laughter.] Voice: I was, like, four tequilas deep by the time you walked in and probably at five when you waved that paper in my fac...
1 Aug 20181h 1min
Caspian Gray | Kylie Land
Do not make friends was not actually an explicit Rule, but it was implied by some of the others: do not do anything to draw attention to yourself and do not bring anyone to the house and do not stop a...
18 Juli 201842min
Alison Littlewood | Ways to Wake
I hear the sound before I open my eyes. Someone is eating, though I should be alone in my room, and it’s too loud, too close. When I look, I see the cat---the one we’re all supposed to adore, that’s m...
4 Juli 201844min
Adam-Troy Castro | Red Rain
Have you ever found yourself on a midtown sidewalk on some warm July day when a plummeting body splattered on the pavement, directly in front of you? Close enough to feel the explosive shockwave of ho...
20 Juni 201829min
Nibedita Sen | Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep
3 Harvest: Arcon Glass came to dinner in my cabin tonight. A rarity; he has declined all previous invitations on pretext of work. Over dessert, First Mate Law asked him if the Guild of Natural Philoso...
6 Juni 201842min
Nalo Hopkinson | Ally
It’d been a warm, sunny spring afternoon. The grass in the cemetery was green, the roses and lavender in the wreaths fragrant. Iqbal’s funeral had been a quiet affair, all things considered. Our circl...
16 Maj 201822min
