Recent Fiction

Father's Day

by Jen Larsen

26 July 2010

My father spent years building his Doomsday Machine.

The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu (part 2 of 2)

by Grady Hendrix

19 July 2010

One of Mayor Yuen's tough guys took me and Little Bun to the elevators. There was classical Western music playing inside it. What good is classical music? You can't break to it.

The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu (part 1 of 2)

by Grady Hendrix

12 July 2010

I say Little Bun swerved all over the street but there are no streets in Guiyu. The electronic mountains have buried the town in a sea of broken hardware and we drove down canyons cut through towering walls of high-tech trash.

The Red Bride

by Samantha Henderson

5 July 2010

The story of the Red Bride is a slave's tale in slave speech, which I do not generally hold in my head around humans lest my face betray me, so I must shift words around from one meaning to another like stones on a reckoning-board, each stone taking meaning from a square where another stone was a moment before.

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