Angora Power by DM Gordon
She is thinking that everything she knows is a construct in her mind. Maybe she’s thinking she should bite. She is thinking this rabbit knows something deeply fundamental, something important,…
Otter by Zoé Mahfouz
The piece grew from that tension between being cared for and being contained, and from the unsettling possibility that the two can begin to resemble each other.
Fanatics by Aliyah Knight
what is there to fear in a collective of girls?
My Sex Appeal Can Kill a Man at 10 Paces
Then comes the part where I’m a fish, going after the bait, gobbling it down so good. Good girl. I’m caught then, wriggling, pondering escape. Shouldn’t have taken the bait…
Hold Your Horses’ Close
by Rachel Ashcraft
Thread Woman
by Lucy Zhang
There Will Come Soft Rains
“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.”
The Illuminarium
The Illuminarium never should have been built. We know that now. At the time of its conception, the Illuminarium’s makers were stupid and choked with hope. They were sad (the…
The Empath
The stranger’s suffering called to her across a great stretch of wood and thicket. Its distance, its faintness should have made it easy to ignore, but instead it nagged at…