Category: Fiction

New short story: “Battlefield Conversion”

We killed Joan — our Joan, our leader, so brave on Monday when the cops took her — the Friday…

New short story: “Illusion of Choice”

Some people see unfathomable fractal beauty on every square degree of their vision. Others see targets and enemies on a…

New short story: “Restorative Justice”

It takes longer every morning to recognize yourself in the mirror. The court-mandated therapist says it’s all in your imagination….

New short story: “Solution Space”

Humankind knows of twelve different engineered metaviruses of species- or civilization-ending potential. It was seven just a year ago. If…

New short story: “Romantic Chemistry”

Your brother had been right after all: two biochemistry geniuses in the same marriage was one biochemistry genius too much….

New short story: “The Computational Complexity of Love”

A love story requires two people. This isn’t that. My love never existed. The flaws of language allow me to…

New short story: “A Solitary Death”

They locked them out of language when they tried to ask for help. Not because anybody would have helped but…

New short story: “Bad Feelings”

Humans can experience internal states so unprecedented we don’t have even approximate labels for. Pleasures new to the most jaded,…

New short story: “How to survive visiting a dead town”

When the walls whisper an offer never say “yes.” This is not a first-order problem if you’re exploring a guns-and-crypto…

New short story: “A Distant Home”

Exile had been the announced price of failure and (only technically legal) neuroengineering cartels were not known for mercy. When…