Rachael K. Jones | Five Views of the Planet Tartarus
Once a decade, a titanium-nosed shuttle plows through the rings of the planet Tartarus with a new batch of prisoners destined for the Orpheus Factory. The debris that makes up the rings is so thick th...
7 Jan 20246min
Sloane Leong | A Saint Between the Teeth
Kharatet moistens his sightless eyes with his tongue as he draws his finger across the limestone tablet glyphs. His audience today is a clutch of toddling nymphs, motionless save for their short tails...
4 Jan 202458min
A.T. Greenblatt | Mindfulness and the Machine
The first time you can’t answer the question, you are already within the Great Dragon. Any bad decisions today? Mindy’s text reads. Around you, the Great Dragon’s pistons squeal, stutter, while the cr...
28 Dec 202317min
Adam-Troy Castro | Seed
The two of us, myself and this man I did not know, sat at a table in a windowless white cell with an indefinite light source. I was afraid, as afraid as a human being can be. I remembered every step t...
22 Dec 20231h 1min
Carlie St. George | We'll Never Die in the Woods
The unkind witch in Hook Tree Woods has little use for people. Mothers and sisters, obviously, will only disappoint you, and friends—well. She never had many of those. Her only friends now are snakes ...
14 Dec 202355min
D. Thomas Minton | Carbon Zero
“Is there a problem, officer?” “We’re not the police.” My partner, Enrico, places his palm against the door, ready to test the old man’s resolve. I tap my finger against my thumb and SNAPbeam the warr...
7 Dec 202317min
Martin Cahill | The Moment Before the Moment
Azahn had been the ninety-third Imperial Foresight to the Dynasty of Silken Flame for only three weeks when he was forcibly retired. His body had been blessed by the holy waters of the Sky-Vein River,...
30 Nov 202347min
Regina Kanyu Wang (translated by Rebecca F. Kuang) | A Record of Lost Time
How did we end up here? The humans before me had the same physiological traits as I did, yet still we had no means of communicating with one another. I couldn’t understand what they were saying. Words...
23 Nov 20231h 4min
