Original flash fiction submissions now open. Submission window closes Oct. 31.
This World of Strange Design
Reading Time: 4 minutes Building a planet used to be harder. There was a real art to it. It required raw talent polished to a diamond’s edge.
Superfine
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lightyears from home, a miner toils on a moon, gradually being hollowed out. They scrape a life, money to support their family, and something like friendship, from the dirt. But when disaster strikes, they are forced to make a hard decision.
The Puppy Problem
Reading Time: 7 minutes Sometimes it’s the little things that come back to bite us.
Cramping Your Style
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you had the power to take down your opponents on the soccer field simply by touching them, would you?
Quabbin’s Child
Reading Time: 14 minutes Alone on a foggy day, among the ruins of an old New England town, a runner has an encounter with the ghost of a small child asking for help.
Arc of Time
Reading Time: 12 minutes An epistolary account of alien discovery on Earth over time.
Hungry
Reading Time: 13 minutes Just how long can young Will Graves hold back on his craving for human brains?
Weekend Treasures
Reading Time: 12 minutes Flea markets have gizmos, thingamajigs and other useful things.
The Bars of Orion
Reading Time: 24 minutes Crossing into a parallel universe is traumatic, but being a good father and learning to let go requires treatment. Originally appeared in Interzone, 2014.
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