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Come Back

Jessica Peter

It came again. That shuf-shuf-shuffle of ragged fabric on bare stone. That tapping; that endless tapping. Blackened bone on cold cement. Not his bare stone, no. Not his cold cement. Not here in his twenty-third-floor condo with the private access elevator and the floor-to-ceiling windows. All white leather and polished chrome. No, it came, again, […]

The Kleiner-Hussain Spaceport Hotel

Anna Kahn

If it were anything other than a major hotel, the Kleiner-Hussain Spaceport Hotel would not have existed long enough to be this haunted, and yet. The problem with space travel has always been that ghosts dislocated from their origins are worse than ghosts left where they belong, and the problem with spaceport hotels has always […]

Quality of Death

Devan Erno

Dr Geistner asked the dead man on the table if everything had been satisfactory, and was pleased by his response. Pleased, and relieved. This latest success was just what Project Denouement needed. She leaned back in the plastic chair, which flexed to accommodate her movement, and removed the bulky VR headset. A ring of sweat […]

It Was Broke When I Got Here

Stephen Frame

Prelude In which, a monster is introduced, as is a witch, and certain issues are brought to light. ### I am called monster. A name given to me by others. Although, all things considered, it is rather apt. Yes, it is true, I have taken sheep and goats. Cattle too. And pigs. We might add […]

Funny Thing About the Hands…

Tammy Komoff

I visited the peat bog just before dawn, when the morning fog was still heavy, hovering over the carpet of peat like a damp blanket. Earlier that morning, I’d noticed peat dried and nailed to the windowsills of most of the stone cottages in town as I wandered the nearly empty streets. “Keeps the bugs […]

Molto Bene

M.E. Wilczek

My green-black ears aren’t pointy enough, so I rub my fingers together just above the tips until they grow and sharpen. The guides say the best first date skin is an elf, so I’m elfing. It’s my first first date in a while. The scene is pretty different. For starters, I haven’t been single since […]

The Show Must Go

Marisca Pichette

Cirque stole the elephant’s bridle from its gilded chest. In the lee where midnight loitered on the toes of dawn, Cirque pocketed all they could and fled the Stage for the last time. Weighed down by harlequin rockets, Soleil met them at the riverbank. She carried cherry bombs and nuclear fizzlers that glowed radium green […]

Now She’s Good Enough

Thea Liu

He passes her a turquoise paper bag, the kind you get at Watson’s, over the remains of her birthday dessert. Inside are two bottles of toner. She turns them over to read the label. It’s not the brand she usually uses, but this is probably nicer than what she can afford. “There was a buy-one-get-one-free […]

Snow Like Ash

Sophia Zhao

You leave before the birds can begin to sing. And though the elders rise, stone-faced, to strap a sword to your belt, no one comes with you; this is not their journey, after all, not the way it is yours. Color is finally bleeding back into the world when you slow to a stop before […]

Lanugo

Ash Vale

The Hunger haunts me most when I’m nauseous, which feels like it’s all the time these days. Morning sickness, my ass. I throw up at a minimum once per day, and it’s not just in the morning. The nausea is all day, every day; relentless. The Hunger is equally as relentless, though, taunting me through […]

Love Story in Colored Glass

Phoenix Alexander

“This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of tendons in his forearms, the frail human machinery of him suddenly revealed in this one […]

In Bloom

Kendra Recht

GERMINATION The first bud sprouts from Charlie’s left thumb. You think you’re dreaming. Another nightmare, but so much more fantastical than the ones you usually have. Charlie crashing his plane in the jungle. Charlie’s parachute failing. Charlie screaming as napalm melts flesh off bone. Charlie, reporting for duty one leg short, clumsily hefting a gun […]

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