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Poetry: Toba Catastrophe Theory
Poetry: Toba Catastrophe Theory
We toasted goodbye to the sun,poured mnemonic wine into empty skulls and watched the bodies frost in winter’s snow, how they curled into clusters of viburnums in the spring. 74,000 years ago,the ground split and released fire it had run out of places to hide. You too spilledyour magic in
Fiction: We Have Always Bathed in the Scalding Spring
Fiction: We Have Always Bathed in the Scalding Spring
Fiction: A Galaxy Run in 30 Minutes or Less
Fiction: A Galaxy Run in 30 Minutes or Less
Fiction: By the Spine
Fiction: By the Spine
Fiction: Suspension
Fiction: Suspension
Fiction: Burn it Down
Fiction: Burn it Down
Burn it Down -- Beth Dawkins
Fiction: Ten Minutes
Fiction: Ten Minutes
Fiction: The Stolen Sabbath
Fiction: The Stolen Sabbath
Each Friday my mother unfolded the sabbath from where it had been hiding all week, snapped it out like a fresh sheet, and draped it over the weekend. I could never quite catch her doing it; one moment, the kitchen was just the kitchen, and the next, it was sacred. She told me not to think about it
Fiction: My Squealing Fan is Someone Else's Terrible Week
Fiction: My Squealing Fan is Someone Else's Terrible Week
Something mechanical in the kitchen ceiling will not stop squealing. I asked a general inspector when I first bought the house a year ago, "Why does it squeak like that?" He peered upwards. "Something loose in the top of the fan? You'd have to get to it from the roof, probably." That sounded
Fiction: Anti-Phantasmic Spearmint Mocktail
Fiction: Anti-Phantasmic Spearmint Mocktail
Have to creep to the void-space to pay the bills again? Tired of guzzling curdled ghost-repellant from the store for a measly five minutes of effectiveness? With the hazards of modern living, we’ve all been there—getting to the deathwell for that sweet collateral currency can be a struggle. But
Fiction: The Sentient Sea of Sargassum
Fiction: The Sentient Sea of Sargassum
Fiction: The Smell of Afterbirth
Fiction: The Smell of Afterbirth
Fiction: Your Body As A Haunted House, or When the Ghost Moves In
Fiction: Your Body As A Haunted House, or When the Ghost Moves In
Fiction: I Will Get Her Back
Fiction: I Will Get Her Back
Fiction: Traveling Salesmen
Fiction: Traveling Salesmen
Fiction: How We became Forest Creatures
Fiction: How We became Forest Creatures
Fiction: The Terrapin King
Fiction: The Terrapin King
Fiction: Candyfloss Pink Moss
Fiction: Candyfloss Pink Moss
Fiction: Hearts and Minds
Fiction: Hearts and Minds
Fiction: The Timeshare
Fiction: The Timeshare
Fiction: Pamplona
Fiction: Pamplona
Fiction: How to Serve the Dead: A Confucian Alternate History
Fiction: How to Serve the Dead: A Confucian Alternate History
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