Category: Fiction

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…

New short story: “A Sense of Community”

She dreams often of what had been the most peaceful place in her life. It’s not her only nightmare but…

New short story: “Emotional Surplus”

Had the neuroengineering of knowledge been easier than that of emotions — had humans brains excelled at knowing and being…

New short story: “The Knife, the Catacomb, the Crime, and the Saint”

During the day Jane thought of it as a knife: half of it was designed to be killed by and…

New short story: “Lightly Censored Letter Home from a Ghoul”

Hiya. I have to write a letter, we can’t do video or voice.. Can you imagine? You were right, they…

New short story: “The Third Inheritance”

Troy didn’t move back to his father’s house until the inheritance trial had been settled. It wasn’t that his ownership…

New short story: “The Commute”

There were three doors in Dave’s small living room: one opened into his bedroom, the other into the corridor outside…