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…
A woman’s greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself
If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect {read}
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…
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.
Flowertongue
Ames knew men who, rather than break their own trail in a hunt, followed another hunter and took that man’s discoveries as his own.
The Future of Work: Compulsory, by Martha Wells
My risk-assessment module predicts a 53 percent chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract.
All The Things You’ll Never Do
In this story, “All The Things You’ll Never Do,” Bess is an airport TSA officer straining against her starched uniform to be given respect for once in her life, like…
Being the Murdered Babysitter
The thing about being the murdered babysitter is you set the plot in motion.
The Voids Underneath
The animal has been in our backyard every night for the past two weeks, always in the same spot by the northern fence. I sit by the kitchen window all…
Martha Wells, “Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries”
Wells has incorporated aspects of herself in Murderbot, a fact that resonates with readers. “I have some problems with anxiety and OCD and I’ve put those into the character… and…