My Uncle Lived in the Future by Parth Shah
He mailed the paperwork when I was still an orca. The hungry days. Unyielding seasons of screaming water. Mother obsessed over deciphering their sound, preoccupied […]
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Two by Flower Conroy
Axolotl The shell’s tomb, the materials breathe.The darkness of matter is bottomless.–Aase Berg Perhaps in 1839 Johann Jakob von Tschudi meant to crown you blunt mouth. Did you […]
Candlelight by K.C. Mead-Brewer
Strike a match, light a candle, here we go. In this version of the story, the messenger urges his horse on, faster faster, away from […]
Two by Rubén Casas
Kumquat It started simply, with a wish: “I wish every word was as fun as ‘kumquat’.” “That’d be fun,” I replied. Later that week, when […]
A Real Boy Blankets the Earth by A.A. Balaskovits
Now voices are silent, like stilled wind-chimes or green mold. Before it all went kaput, crash, boom, there were whispers about the carved-out-of-soft-pine-wood boy who […]
Preserved by Joshua Hebburn
While sitting at the bar I see your doppelganger. She’s peeling a garniture orange at the table beside the one where the man with tight […]
Two by Leanna Petronella
Flight Your green eyes are butterflies. Your long eyelashes are their trillion legs. “Foom foom,” I say, flapping my hands at your head. We will […]
How You’ll Go by Wendy Oleson
Human, be honest—you’ve mistaken us for the living. Even the wisest and most steely among you catch yourselves wondering if we haven’t shifted against our […]
Three by Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Moon, 2050 A man in an At-the-Drive-In shirt bought a new car because his old car had disintegrated. The new car was a flying […]