The Weird Visa
As plague epidemics ravage the cities of the near future, a border-hopping medic gets tagged as a potential terror threat {read}
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
At a time now past, a cat was born. This was not so long after the first cats came to Japan, so they were rare and mostly lived near the…
The Way We Live Now
By Susan Sontag November 16, 1986 my gynecologist says that everyone is at risk, everyone who has a sexual life, because sexuality is a chain that links each of us…
Green By Jen Knox
Joseph’s only deviation from regulation minimalism is an illicit second bicycle… until he meets Alyssa, a dumpster-diving, live-streaming, crowd-funded wanderer. Award-winning author Jen Knox hails from Ohio, and her work…
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…
Leonora Carrington Rewrote the Surrealist Narrative for Women
In one of Carrington’s earliest stories, “The Debutante,” a young woman who does not want to go to a ball switches places with a hyena. The débutante allows her maid…
“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…