I. On the tarpaulin I lay your body, cold and rigid as the geometry you love. Tiny invaders already hunger, stretching their wings and cilia in prayer. The banana-yellow mud tastes of forever, and when I sink to my knees the puddles run clear with eggs of sated flies. In worship they will subsume your … Continue reading Outfield by Hal Y. Zhang
Before I died, I grew tall. After I died, I grew long. I stood up. In the furrows of the field I stood up. Thunderclouds were rolling in, bringing with them autumn rain, warm and cold at once. The red Ohio clay cut the soles of my bare feet. I dropped the spade by the … Continue reading Fallow by Erin K.Wagner
A maid’s face lies stark in the glass. She bares her teeth, her smile black as rot and dripping. The mistress has dentifrice of pale powdered coral flavoured with lilacs (she knows because she tested the granules with her tongue, once), but a maid must make do with soot. It’s both grainy and slick on … Continue reading Maid-of-Many-Skins by G.V. Anderson
It’s the first time Camille sees his bone collection. She prowls the edge of Simon’s bookcase, brushing her fingers along the specimens on the shelves. The softly lit bones remind her of seashells, smooth and white, silky under her touch. Small animal skulls with teeth sharp enough to pierce skin; a larger one with twisting … Continue reading The Bones And Their Girl by Sylvia Heike
I’m swimming through the void, a great winged whale fortified against the cosmic deep, when the message comes, relayed from an orbiter I long thought defunct. I pause a parsec, unsure whether or not I should interpret it. Stars pass me by like raindrops on a car window; a metaphor that feels so alien now, … Continue reading Goldengrove Unleaving by Dafydd McKimm
I am running. Get ready. This is where the timeline splits. My hair beats about my face and the moon shines down and if this were a movie, there would be the silhouette of a wolf, howling at the moon. Instead, there are only coyotes, slunk low to the ground. In some of these stories, … Continue reading Timelines by L’Erin Ogle
Chelsea Hanna Cohen lives in Brooklyn, works in publishing, and plays piano when she isn’t writing. She is an alumna of the 2018 Tin House Summer Workshop and is the managing editor of Syntax & Salt. Her work has been previously been published or is forthcoming in Split Lip Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, and freeze … Continue reading The Girl with the Butterfly Hands by Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Jennifer Todhunter’s stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, CHEAP POP, and elsewhere. She was named to Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2018, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Pidgeonholes. Find her at www.foxbane.ca or @JenTod_. i am a haenyeo i am a haenyeo was originally published by Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry in September 2015 i am a mother An … Continue reading Three Flash Stories by Jennifer Todhunter
Katelyn Forrest exists in Rhode Island writing SFF fiction. She went to film school, has been a radio disc jockey and a dot com prospector. She has built a nuclear submarine and isn’t allowed to give blood because of that one time with the cow brains out of a vending machine in Europe. She got … Continue reading Payments by Katelyn Forrest
Laura Alexandra Hunter indulges in creative pursuits. She occasionally tweets using the handle @LauraLxH. Ascension was published previously in Grievous Angel in January 2017. Monday Amy could feel the throb of her new tattoo on her thigh. A navy blue pencil skirt covered the anchor adorned with a carmine climbing rose. A light gauze dressing kept it … Continue reading Ascension by Laura Alexandra Hunter