Category: Fiction

When a child learns to speak, their first word is a gift. It is a butterfly wing that swirls the dust motes ignited by the

My son sent me a birthday card the other day, a digitally painted holograph of dinosaurs that dance across the edge of my desk, most

The traveler arrived, motion-sick and weary, in the country where everyone was happy. She had slept on the trip over, but it was a journey

In the city of K—, every building is a mountain; stairs of stone lead up their facades to steel-gated doors. It rains often, so the

It’s April and the sea gives up her dead again. We gather on the beach every afternoon, when the waters recede the furthest away. Mum

I lost my eighth arm in the usual way. A man took it, and I was lucky to escape with my life. Afterward, this man

Niki wipes sticky blood off her cheek.  She stops mid-step, perplexed by the quickly browning russet substance on her fingers. Maybe something fell from the

The first beat sent a rumble through the entire Mothership. Metal squealed. Another beat struck, then more followed, unspooling a string of funky percussion that

To understand the engineer Tina Yu and how she became known as a traitor to her country, we must go back to the beginning: to

It starts with a beat. A steady electronic thump in my chest. Electric waves pulsing through my body with a feeling like forever before breaking