Down two devils dropped, under sleeping streets, conjuring the hopeless and unhoused. Their songs echo like flutes bouncing off breathing trees. Two by two the hopeless drop down through quick mud to tunnels, endless in circling knots, all leading to one lost doorstep, four opened arms, fire lashing out welcomes. DG Bracey is a teacher […]
Love came fast. For me. For her, love was simply bait, a lure, a grift. And I, her mark. Married in March, the Strawberry Moon revealed all, her veil removed. Now, silence, darkness, and locked doors are our love language. I wonder what she misses more: fresh air or sunlight. Chris Bowers lives on Earth, […]
He began clear—hopeful, technical, sincere.The stream once ran clean and bright.Small pipes tapped in.Big ones polished reports.“Treat just enough. Speak louder.”Audits passed.Dead zones slowly grew.He watched waste join the sea.It shimmered—blue, vast, beautiful.No one questioned it.It looked clean enough… Lakshman Vudanrao is the founder of a company offering innovation support services. He writes across themes […]
We struggled with transplanted lives. Chefs served identical protein packs; musicians played the colony’s sole venue. Yet Mrs. Tamlyn’s etiquette school thrived. She taught us grace in pressurized suits, dignity while rationing recycled water, low-gravity choreography. She had unknowingly domesticated humanity’s last hope of escape. Civility became our cruelest addiction. Ashni wrote this story after […]
A rock drummer on tour in Brazil looks for a quiet spot after a gig, but suffers an unexpected interruption. Image generated with OpenAI Drum solo. Mine. I’m tired, too, but it’s just the solo, a couple more songs, the encore, and I’m outta here. Really need a steak, man. Brazil is great for steak. […]
It’s a sight to behold, that slick of teenagers commuting home from the beach. All salt-encrusted eyelashes and lobstery shoulders, screeching like a murder of crows. Time travelling. My youth—I can almost reach out and touch it. The train window reflects my denuded reality… but I’m still 1985 inside! Gabe has been writing and editing […]
“You need to make friends”, my coworker says while vigorously pressing the elevator floor button. She never turns to see my melancholic expression. I try explaining the enclosing weighted blanket feeling of loneliness… She huffs, holds her hand up, cutting my words, and says, “You just need to make friends.” Lauren Dennis is a Sailor who lives […]
Lynchian horror about a dental assistant and a teacher who form an obsessive relationship that brings out their darkest impulses. Image generated with OpenAI “It seems that all of the children whom I see have suddenly become terrible,” Emery said, scraping away plaque with a hooked metal instrument. He had never had a sense of […]
The copse of corpses is haunted by centuried ghosts and the ashen remnants of their skeletons. As I travel, they whisper to me in urgent gasps. To be is to… To be is to… I allow the whippoorwill’s song to drown out their voices, yet still I walk, pondering pines. Katelyn Jane Pontzer is an […]
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