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
Stephanie Malia Morris | Bride Before You
Such a beautiful boy, Cornelius Clay. Pity no woman’ll marry him. And to think it ain even his fault, sweet baby, born into money and beauty both, like the good Lord couldn’t part with his blessings f...
2 Maj 201828min
