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
Magical Girl Eater
What research did you do for this story? Did you learn anything that surprised you? Angela Liu: I looked up new products/collaborations and remakes for series I loved in the…
Long Live the Longer Short Story: Depth Without a Novel’s Commitment
Our attention spans are being whittled to nonexistence by an increasingly impatient feedback loop, with social media, the internet, and AI competing to devour our attentional capacity. Yet when leafing…
MARSHIE MALLODY
"A man chooses to remain in an abandoned and dangerous city with his son after a deadly global pandemic, despite the opportunity to move to a safer community. " A…
The Enigma of Amigara Fault
The Enigma of Amigara Fault This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in…