Dennis Danvers | Leaving the Dead
Darwin thought he might be more alive than other people. Not a whole lot, but ever increasingly, until finally, in a checkout line at Target, he was the last person left alive but his checker. Gabriel...
28 Maj 201349min
Holly Black | The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue
There is a werewolf girl in the city. She sits by the phone on a Saturday night, waiting for it to ring. She paints her nails purple. Narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
21 Maj 201331min
Sean Williams | The Missing Metatarsals
His head swiveled to track me as we walked in lockstep through security. A birth defect called Möbius syndrome inherited from distant Nepalese ancestors left him with underdeveloped VI and VII cranial...
14 Maj 201333min
Maria Dahvana Headley | The Traditional
By your first anniversary, the world’s stopped making paper, and so you can’t give your boyfriend the traditional gift. You never would have anyway, regardless of circumstances. You’re not that kind o...
7 Maj 201336min
Hugh Howey | Deep Blood Kettle
They say the sky will fill with dust in a bad way if we don’t do something soon. My teacher Mrs. Sandy says that if the meteor hits, it’ll put up enough dirt to block the sun, and everything will turn...
23 Apr 201319min
Karin Tidbeck | A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain
On a beach by the sea stands a gutted stone tower. A man is climbing up the remains of a staircase that spirals up the tower’s interior. Vivi sits on the roof, oblivious, counting coins that have spil...
16 Apr 201329min
Kathleen Ann Goonan | A Love Supreme
Ellie Santos-Smith grabs a clean white coat as spring dawn brightens her worn Oriental rug and streaks with sun her only luxury, a grand piano. She runs a comb through her jet-black hair, cut short be...
9 Apr 201336min
Christopher Barzak | Smoke City
One night, I woke to the sound of my mother’s voice, as I did when I was a child. The words were familiar to my ear, they matched the voice that formed them, but it was not until I had opened my eyes ...
2 Apr 201342min
