Recent Fiction

The Secret Identity

by Richard Butner

25 August 2008

We were studying for midterms when I found out about the ghost.

Sex with Ghosts

by Sarah Kanning

18 August 2008

Sex. All those complications, all that messiness. It's like watching a group of enthusiasts really get into a hobby that you don't share.

The Emerald King

by J. Kenneth Sargeant

11 August 2008

Everything is green today and I'm brave again.

Down the Well

by Alaya Dawn Johnson

4 August 2008

I saw her clearly, then: beautiful and terrible, ancient and radical, a goddess as much as any human can be. Killing a hexapedal carnivore with a hand-made spear, hiding for two days from a giant amphibious jellyfish desperate for food, surviving alone in the Well for five years before the computers on this side even registered the malfunction--those rumors had floated around the agency for decades. I'd found it impossible to believe that such a small, unassuming woman had done all they said she did.

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