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I know you’ve been following me since I left school, boarded the train, and took to the alley. Why didn’t I run? | © 2024 by Modupeoluwa Shelle. Narr…
1 year, 11 months ago
A Pedra
Audio Recording, “Lydia and Ecco at Insight,” February 3, 2134 I didn’t run. If the boy had not called to you, you would have run. I would not have r…
1 year, 11 months ago
a testament to indirection, an enigma, the sun above
So, this is awkward. We aren’t at the stage in our relationship where I’d feel comfortable revising your life-poem on the fly. Even as a backup plan …
1 year, 11 months ago
Islands of Stability
Jeanne Calment said she was 122, but there were questions. The records from 1875 were shaky, some of them deliberately burned. Tanaka Kane, 119, was …
1 year, 11 months ago
Season of Weddings
To be fair, the first one is work, so he doesn’t even get to pick his outfit. But an olive-scented breeze squirrels joyfully through his hair; waiter…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics
If a robot stands alone in a field, staring into the forlorn distance as it obeys the last order it was given by a human, that order being, “Don’t mo…
1 year, 11 months ago
Only Some of True Love's Miracles
True love’s kiss works miracles. Everyone knows the story: The sculptor who carved a perfect woman, his own creation, and when he fell in love with h…
1 year, 11 months ago
An Incomplete Body Has No Answers
You don’t know why you ask because you already know he can’t answer. A body is only a body when it has all its parts. And he—that beloved man you onc…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kopki and the Fish
The story as it is told in the dry valleys north of Averon, where the only roads run down to the Cricket River and the only power is the freehold of …
1 year, 11 months ago
Will McMahon
I was born normal enough, except that I was four days late, which isn’t so much, and slightly jaundiced, which isn’t unusual, and had a raccoon for a…
2 years ago