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…