Old Hope
By Clare Sestanovich If death turned out to be anything other than pure oblivion—if the afterlife was even remotely lucid—I would be disappointed. Wasn’t everyone looking forward to the chance…
Strangers No More — Paper Darts
I was riding home on the train when a stranger sat down across from me. He looked at me for a long time before speaking. “I have a proposition for…
“Alta’s Place”by Morgan Thomas
Morgan Thomas has written this story with perceptive nuance, creating a narrator that the reader must look around in order to see the truth of Alta and Cory’s dynamic. Every…
“Miss Snowfall” by Sofia Samatar
In Fallow, a group of people, like the Amish, or perhaps more precisely the Mennonites, build a new Noah’s arc, leave the Earth (which has been poisoned), and drift through…
Life Is a Joke and Death Is the Punchline
a cat to feed named Mr. Butts.
The Great Silence
Ted Chiang’s very short story, “The Great Silence” adds another set of questions to these speculations. Why, he asks, are we so interested in finding intelligence in the stars and…
The Candy Children’s Mother by A.A. Balaskovits
My grandmother once told me that once you go into the forest, you come back a changeling. Or you don’t come back at all.
There are only 3 fantasies
"There are only 3 fantasies. One is getting something from nothing: magic, technology. Another is becoming something from nothing: destiny, entrepreneurship. Both are silly, but have their place. Only their…