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ByA.C. Wise

Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review

We are firmly within Spooky Season, which if you ask me, lasts from the beginning of September to roughly mid-December.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Avra Margariti

In “Their Wings as Powdery as Bones,” giant mothlike angels have appeared over a town, partially destroying it and spreading their wings across the sky. Ever since then, chosen children rise ecstatically up into the air, called up by the…

ByAvra Margariti

Their Wings as Powdery as Bones

We drive iron nails through my sister's feet and into the dusty floorboards below to keep her from flying away.

ByLeah Ning

Book Review: Kerstin Hall’s Asunder

I finished this one on a plane ride I expected to sleep on. I’d only slept a few hours the night before, but I was too close to the end to put it down.

ByDanian Darrell Jerry

The Boy with the Golden Arm

He craned his neck, trying to see above their spiked shoulder pads and fitted caps. At the door, security gods brandished assault rifles.

ByParker M. O'Neill

Your Return to the Five Ruins of the Bog

I’ll always wonder: did the Timeless come here for the Bog? Or did the Bog come here for them?

ByRobert V.S. Redick

The Tyranny of High Concept

Genre, that charged and cherished notion, is the best narrative show in town when viewed through certain lenses.

ByBrian Keene

Island of the Dead

The galley’s lower deck stank of sweat, salt, vomit, and desperation.

ByDanny Cherry Jr.

What Happens When a Planet Falls From the Sky?

That’s the question Damon (Earth-X) and Marissa (Earth-Y) were tasked with answering, but they were busy eye-fucking each other.