Claire Wrenwood | Homecoming
Only when Marlo and her mother have followed the attendants through the faux-marble foyer and into the room filled with diffusers and soft jazz and laid down on the massage tables covered in crisp, cl...
4 Mars 202125min
Alexander Weinstein | Destinations of Beauty
It has become increasingly clear to your guidebook writers that the beauty of any destination should be measured not simply by the magnificence of its architecture or the lushness of its landscape, bu...
25 Feb 202135min
Phoebe Barton | The Mathematics of Fairyland
If you had a warp drive, it would be easy. The mathematics are strange the way ley lines are strange, invisible yet divinable. You’ve pulled your way up sterner mountains, fingertip by fingertip. You’...
4 Feb 202128min
D. Thomas Minton | The Memory Plague
In the beginning, we are one, and we are ignorance. Our skin is chaffed tender from the womb-sac and the exit ring. Out, we writhe blindly in the grit that cuts our softness until the dryness of the a...
21 Jan 202149min
Adam-Troy Castro | Answering the Questions You Might Have About the Kharbat
You have just been attacked by a Kharbat. It has sprung on you from hiding, in some place where you foolishly imagined yourself safe; and even as its many glittering fangs sink deep into the flesh and...
14 Jan 202117min
P H Lee | Ann-of-Rags
I have heard it on the rumors that when the tale-spinner’s guild gathers in their secret places, a full half of them are sworn to never tell the truth, and the other half to never tell a lie, even if ...
31 Dec 202026min
Andrew Dana Hudson | Your Mind is the Superfund Site
“Ever consider killing yourself?” the gecko said. “It’ll save you one hundred percent on your car insurance.” I was alone, but not. I tried to step on the creature, but my foot wasn’t there. I clenche...
10 Dec 202047min
Kat Howard | The Lachrymist
It is not the dust that brings her tears. The Lachrymist’s house is dusty, fragments of time and memory fallen everywhere, a living blanket that drapes itself over tables and chairs and things even st...
19 Nov 202015min
