Phyllis Konieczko: "At Dawn"
"Fatal words. Cruel destiny. Why, oh why did she ask the boy to accompany her to her chambers? Did she not know that the male sex causes naught but havoc and should best be kept in cages?"
Filters & Sorting
Monica Kam: l o s t
"In wet clothes we drove through Paris."
Reprinted from Issue 8.
TC Mangan: A Feast of Tongues
"(Toto, we’re not in London any more)"
Ian Macartney: Three Short Stories
"All roads led to the web of London – it was an uphill battle to unthink that and so many other assumptions about the capital."
Joseph Rizzo Naudi: Goose Woman Cat
"The photograph was in black and white, but mostly it was in shades of grey, as
far as I could see."
Sam Rye: A Philosophy of Looking
"Upon observation, the electron snaps into a fixed position ... Reality becomes a point that pierces us, with our own eyes."
Madeleine Wulfahrt: Hydra
"It was just like her to choose the rocks over one of the more manicured beaches."
Hester Styles Vickery: 'LA x'
It is the summer of 2017 and I am in Los Angeles, with the eclipse due at 10:20am, Pacific Standard Time.
Mannika Mishra: 'Tailbone', an excerpt
"Rabbit skin is like water, my hands are made so gentle for it."
Jiayi Fang: 'Disappearing in Tokyo', a short story
"I’ve been thinking these days that disappearing in Tokyo might be the easiest thing in the world."
Jordan Mitchell: 'Gas'
"We drove to Walmart. None of us had ever been to a Walmart before."
Nell Whittaker: 'Something Burning'
"this summer there were fruitflies everywhere."
Feifei Zhan: 'Snow'
"Ning told Jing not to expect snow in London."