Another Pilot Season by Michael Kemp
“I can’t stand being married to someone unsuccessful” “Seriously, I am sorry, but I can’t stand being married to someone unsuccessful,” Gina said. He stood there feeling the words push an ice pick...
View ArticleBath Salts by Dan Nielsen
They stepped out of the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. The sun was blindingly bright, but gave off no heat. The air was cold and smelled like nothing. Claudia and Frank wore...
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Reprieve — Douglas Hawley
It started in January of 1990, but the exact date is unknown. George Bush was the US president. The Soviet Union was disintegrating and its satellite states were going their own way. African...
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Operation Train Dodge: A Dystopia Boy Adventure — Trevor D. Richardson
This will put your life in our eyes. This will put your words in our mouths. The angels speak in electric unison, the room a buzzing white noise of silver reflections and Armageddon spotlights....
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Absurdians of the Madhouse — Kevin Munley
Neo-Chicago doesn’t have a mental health problem. It has a robot problem. The robots that were programmed to protect the citizens from their depression, mania, and psychosis- the cancers of our modern...
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An Image of the Moment Part 2 — Daniel Gothard
The train stops. There is no slowing down, just an instant cessation of movement in the middle of the journey between small district stations. Your first thought is of being late for work, but you have...
View ArticleThe Price of Conformity by Lydia Deva
THE bright pictures could not detract from the room’s sterility. Butterflies and helicopters hovered below the ceiling; mice crawled up the walls and threatened to munch the letters of the alphabet...
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Superpowerless — Tad Bartlett
Dear Great-Grandchild, You should know a few facts. Fact One: We’ll likely never meet. This isn’t a sad thing, just an actuarially reasonable probability, particularly given what I know about the...
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Notes from the Afterlife — Tom Larsen
This is what happens when you die. This is what happens when you die. You rise out of your body and hover over yourself, just like those people who claim they’ve come back always say. But they...
View ArticleSaint Jenny of the Hipster Apocalypse — Kevin Munley
In Jenny’s dream, voluminous smoke-clouds filled the horizon and rolled out across the sky. They rose and fell uniformly upon the earth, blotting out the light, and scorching the land with sweat,...
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