Lizzie Williams’ Swampy Head
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lizzie Williams kept the head in a burlap sack. We’d pay to look at it, pay even more to hear its secrets. We hated that head.
Flash Fiction
The Talecrafter’s Apprentice
Reading Time: 4 minutes An apprentice talecrafter constructs her first magical tale.
The Lingering Taste of Mars
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I feel like I left my mind on Mars. Even now, I can still hear the wind.” Rosie reaches over from where she sits on her rocking chair and winds her fingers around mine. She hasn’t changed a bit, despite the years I was gone. Her face is still every bit as bright and optimistic
Relative
Reading Time: 2 minutes A dying physicist makes a desperate attempt to spare his daughter grief by flying into a black hole.
A Waste of Time
Reading Time: 3 minutes What if your past was a lie and you had the opportunity to go back and change it?
Jingle-jangle
Reading Time: 3 minutes And then I was fading, ears ringing and body broken by shrapnel that jingle-jangled in my pocket, before I failed Christiane.
Evacuation: Earth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Evacuating Earth was arguably the most difficult thing ever undertaken by humankind.
Decoy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tesca watched as Braygin was enveloped in a blue orb, then winked out of existence along with a little section of tunnel floor he’d been standing on.
The Wacky Fun Factory
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fun never ends at the Wacky Fun Factory. Even if you want it to.
Twinkle
Reading Time: 2 minutes A band of faeries endeavors to help a worthy little girl by doggedly placing wish opportunities in her path.
The Greatest Mystery of the Universe
Reading Time: 4 minutes A scientist ponders the mysteries of dark matter — though it, and he, may not be what they seem…
House Keepers
Reading Time: 3 minutes When civilization begins to crumble, the 1 percent retreat to their summer homes.
The Old Storms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The old storms have gone away, and a little wonder has gone out of the world with them. Can they be brought back?
If Suddenly You Forget Me, Do Not Look for Me
Reading Time: 3 minutes With any experience in life, you have to take the good with the bad… unless you have the technology to sell either to the highest bidder.
A New Home
Reading Time: 3 minutes What makes a house a home? In the future, we might not have to be the ones who decide that.
Concerto
Reading Time: 4 minutes A haunted musician is compelled to make music for creatures he finds in the shadows…
Bellatrification
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a society where everybody is beautiful, physical imperfection becomes a career move.
Second Bite
Reading Time: 4 minutes A dentist with a dark family history receives a request to fit a patient with a very unique set of teeth.
Metaphors be with You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Neville Schroeder was a fireplug. He stood barely five feet tall, red, shabby, and pedestrian. Professor Connelly towered over him, a giant oak tree of a man with a silk paneled vest, tweed coat and tie, expensive glasses, and a neatly trimmed beard.
Silence
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Listen to me,” said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. “The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no quiet there, nor silence.”