Bees on the Brain
A sad, beautiful story about medical mistreatment, cancer, death, and grief.
What We Look For at the Night Market
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 trickier. There are four of us. We split into pairs: two on one motorcycle, two on the other. We settle behind the mysterious riders with scarred helmets that Ingri waved […]
Lost
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.
Mermaid’s Purse
By the time she started her job at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Rachel had seen countless fish born. Nothing she’d seen was like what came out of the giant egg case in the saltwater tank.
Punk’s Not Dead
Around me is complete chaos. The soldiers open fire, bullets everywhere. They’re better armed, but we’re out of our fucking minds.
Alamogordo
Concerns are being raised over the new treaty between Russia and North Korea…
Soft Eternity
She relinquished her control
Into my steady hands, the untamed part
Of her that had split open throats
And hearts through heaviest of armors.
When I’m #64
Hello, I’m Paul, and I’ve died 62 times. But don’t worry. This isn’t going to be one of those sad stories about dying. That’s not my story, at least.
For Sale: Cursèd Object, Never Cleaned
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Goodly Creatures
When Crawford, a bioengineer, stumbles upon the eviscerated corpse of a florafox, she must hunt down her escaped biosynth—a dangerous benthomander whose genecode may have been compromised.