For Your Optimal Hookboarding Experience, by Bogi Takács
Cilanter bees fly close to the top of the upper forestsurface in large turquoise swarms. Hookboarders are advised to keep their bee warnings on at all times. Electronic warning systems … Continue reading
When It Comes, Words Fail, by Hayden Trenholm
She put her arm over the back of the seat and cocked her head to the rear. The 546 words lined up behind the trailer hitched like railcars. She threw … Continue reading
Folded House, by Jenny Terpsichore Abeles
Moving Day. Colder than the forecast, my hands red and dry, especially around the knuckles. Mom in her wheelchair, flinching and trying to look cheerful. This is your new start, … Continue reading
Issue 3 Table of Contents
Here’s the full Table of Contents for Issue 3, due out August 18. This issue takes on the quest tradition with six immaculate tales. The quests here are personal rather than … Continue reading
Before the Rains Came, by Jack Hollis Marr
It is dusk when the unicorn comes to the boy, under the heavy trees. Dark leaves hang dull, dust-coated, and the air is tired. The boy, curled almost out of … Continue reading
A Girl Who Comes Out of a Chamber at Regular Intervals, by Sofia Samatar
These automata are but vessels for our dreams; the wine they hold is the shadow of the future. –Safiyya bint al-Jazari 1. On the construction of clocks from which … Continue reading
Elephants and Omnibuses, by Julia August
Excerpted from A Popular History of Roman War-Machines (Oxford, 1879) Preface We are accustomed to hearing the Roman army described as a “well-oiled machine.” Of what parts, the interested reader … Continue reading
On Being Undone by a Light Breeze, by Vajra Chandrasekera
Inside your house you can cry and have babies and dinners with the food laid out in so many dishes, in a bubble of clean oxygen where the entropy of … Continue reading
Issue 2 Foreword
Thank you to the readers, donors, reviewers, submitters, and contributors who signal-boosted our inaugural issue and made it buoyant. Your support has carried us nicely into Issue 2 (and beyond; … Continue reading →