John Chu | Double Time
Skaters in black practice outfits swerved around Shelly. Her music was playing over the PA system. She had right of way. A scattering of figure skating fans sat in the rink’s hard, blue, plastic seats...
14 Juni 201640min
Kevin Jared Hosein | Hiranyagarbha
Remember when I first see it while boating through the mangroves in Caroni Swamp. Was early morning—you coulda still see the flicker of a candlefly here and there. I was following a trail of dead tila...
14 Juni 201618min
Nick T. Chan | Salto Mortal
Three days ago, Paul had thrown Mary onto the kitchen floor and kicked her everywhere except her face. For the first two days, the only time she left her bed was to go to the bathroom, drops of clotte...
7 Juni 20161h 10min
Karin Lowachee | A Good Home
I brought him home from the VA shelter and sat him in front of the window because the doctors said he liked that. The shelter had set him in safe mode for transport until I could voice activate him ag...
7 Juni 201657min
Wole Talabi | Wednesday’s Story
My story has a strange shape to it. It has a beginning and middle and, of course, I need not tell you that it has an end because it is the nature of all things to end, especially stories. But this sto...
24 Maj 201648min
Mari Ness | Deathlight
Els wondered again if she should start recording her final words. If she could start recording her final words. There was cold, and then there was cold, and the Tolstar was cold. Dun had shut off ever...
17 Maj 201647min
Seanan McGuire | The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch
Mist flowed through the Tulgey Wood like treacle, slow and thick and unyielding. Squeaks and muffled chitters came from the underbrush as rabbits, foxes, and adolescent toves that hadn’t sensed the we...
10 Maj 201647min
An Owomoyela | Three Points Masculine
I was serving in Baxon just north of Hescher, guard-dogging a queue of first responders heading into the riot zones, and John caught my eye. Her beard caught my eye. Some troublemaker flaunting the ru...
3 Maj 201641min
