TABLE OF CONTENTS

Every dreadful thing we’ve ever published.

The Natural Order of Things

Gwen Whiting June 3, 2022

As her infant daughter faces death, a mother must decide whether to upload the child’s consciousness into a robot body.

Haunted House

Rhonda Parrish June 1, 2022

I know what you want.

The Norms from Up Here

Renan Bernardo May 27, 2022

Thoughts are routed, filtered and processed to mold voices according to the Norm, making people obey “linguistic standards.”

Still Life—A Review

Guan Un May 20, 2022

A review of Eduard Montpelier-Lin’s installation, Still Life, featuring eerily detailed statues of the infamous “Lost Girls.”

It Is the Voice That Unnerves Me

John Perilli May 13, 2022

Dorie’s memory of her deceased husband is being tainted by his Remembrance, a device that simulates his personality.

Blame

Warren Benedetto May 6, 2022

Read all the emails, chat logs, audio transcripts, Jira tickets, and other evidence related to the Kristie Breslin case.

On This, Our Last Night at Station Six

Lora Gray May 4, 2022

Original poetry by Lora Gray.

An Endless Sky Above

M Shedric Simpson April 29, 2022

Alicia ventures from the safety of her subterranean bunker to attend a concert on the surface of a planet devastated by vicious, violent storms.

Do You Know Why We Stopped You?

David Lee Zweifler April 22, 2022

Visit a retail hellscape where the only humans are the customers.

Hemlock

Jess Koch April 20, 2022

Love, addiction, and hunger.

Unschooled

Christi Nogle April 15, 2022

In an abandoned house in the woods, a mother in hiding delivers her young.

Bees on the Brain

Avi Burton April 8, 2022

A sad, beautiful story about medical mistreatment, cancer, death, and grief.

Superman

Liam Hogan April 1, 2022

A father’s gifts can’t make up for his neglect.

What We Look For at the Night Market

Ai Jiang March 25, 2022

When meeting death, there is first a moment of confusion—a space in-between where ghosts wander—wonder—until they do not. Guilt is a fickle thing—forgetting is even

Lost

Ai Jiang March 23, 2022

On foreign land, memories of you slowly fade, but the dolls still stay,
their eyes rolling to the back of their heads, refusing to watch you leave.

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