A Ghost in Brazil
Kikuko Tsumura I was ever so keen to visit the Aran Islands, but unfortunately, I died before ever making it out of Japan. I was seventy-two at the time. My…
Unauthorized Bread By Cory Doctorow
For her whole life, the world had been divided into the people around her, people who knew her, and who she was. Most of those were people who wished her…
A Layer of Catherines
three versions of one person meet in a forest. One of them is excited about it, one of them is nervous, and one them really wishes this hadn’t happened.
Sell Out: Part One
One day at work I fall into brine and they close the lid above me by mistake. Much time passes; it feels like long sleep. When the lid is finally…
Hazmat by Katherine Brook
The fatberg didn’t ooze. It was a solid, unmoving mass. Every day they broke away chunks like breezeblocks. This one was a monster, the biggest yet. It was almost the…
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…