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AUTUMN 2024, SHORT STORY, 1400 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 36: The long and thin of her stretches past the calculations. She ran the numbers ten times and she may not have a tape measure out here to drape across the space-curve bounding […]

AUTUMN 2024, SHORT STORY, 3300 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 36: On the Feast Night of Vengeful Ghosts, the thin atmosphere above the dome of Yaniv Town filled with floating lights. It was wintertime, when frost formed on the Martian sand and made

AUTUMN 2024, SHORT STORY, 650 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 36: In the ashes of a vanished city there rests a reliquary. Its gem-encrusted glass is fire-darkened, facets clouded by centuries and smoke. To unlock its secrets, we assembled a team of archaeologists

AUTUMN 2024, SHORT STORY, 4000 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 36: I saw Sad Tommy the ghost in line at Starbucks behind a woman runner whose blonde hair in a ponytail hung to the middle of her back. The runner ordered, moved aside,

AUTUMN 2024, SHORT STORY, 4700 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 36: The Sea Witch is not one of the biggest boats in the Bering fleet, but it’s been around almost as long as the real stars, the big-name boats that people outside this

SUMMER 2024, FLASH AH AH, 800 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 35: The night my dad dies, he’s not my dad—he’s fifteen years old, fluffy-haired and lean, and he’s sneaking through the neighbor’s backyard with a friend. They’re on their way to play

SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3100 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 35: The bicycle shed at the edge of Heaven was painted a different color every time Kitty saw it. She was used to the ever-shifting hue, even fond of it, but one day

SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 4500 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 35: The Second Intifada, September 2003. There is a student protest in response to Israel’s raids in Rafah that Rachel skips to go camping with four college friends and her old buddy Long,

SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3500 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 35: They buried us in Detroit. The plywood was thick as Aretha’s bosom, but I felt as free as her glorious voice. Wasn’t my fault their overlords and former owners had plundered their

SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3500 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 35: You’ve been angry for three full moons, but you don’t know this, or rather you’ve forgotten this. There’s a lot that you’ve forgotten. Such as who you are, or what it is