Non-Paternity Event

The title refers to how, with the rise of DNA testing like 23-and-me, increasing numbers of people are finding out that the person they thought was their father isn't related…

A Girl Defines Herself

No one knows for sure where we came from; no one can say where we’re going. We are, in the linguistic sense, mysteries. Secrets. In some ways, threats.

We know different things

Outgrowth

“Something is changing in the greenhouse,” I tell my mother. She starts to ask what — but the phone drops. Service is shaky in the facility.

Spatchcock

The body hardly looked like a recognizable creature without the head, the feathers, the feet. She could almost forget it had been alive.

Everything So Different and the Same

How trees can’t cure cancer, but they still matter

We are monsters

The robot considered the question, and looked up what programs was available to them.

A Brief Catalog of Humans, as Observed by the Cryptids of Encante

The Myopic Cryptozoologist - Everyone’s least favorite human, this persistent creature is a narrow-minded cousin of perhaps our favorite type of human—the cryptozoologist—and differs from that specimen in several key…

TRYST – Fractured

We learned secrecy young—two girls taught to swallow our hunger—so we meet up at nightfall once the last lights have gone out.