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Back to SearchStephen Graham Jones | Moonboys
You ask how my brother died on the moon that day, but that’s the wrong question. Ask instead what he spelled with his bootprints when we first steppe…
7 years, 3 months ago
Matthew Hughes | Hapthorn’s Last Case
My assistant said, “You have received an invitation from Holk Xanthoulian. He is embarking on a new menu and invites, and I quote, ‘a select coterie …
7 years, 3 months ago
Theodore McCombs | Talk to Your Children About Two-Tongued Jeremy
His name was Two-Tongued Jeremy; he was a monitor lizard with a forked tongue, thick glasses, and a wild, wagging smile meant to convince children th…
7 years, 4 months ago
Theodora Goss | Queen Lily
Once upon a time, there was a princess named Little Snowdrop, who had six brothers and four sisters. Her brothers were ravens, and her sisters were s…
7 years, 4 months ago
Mel Kassel | Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake
I’m fourteen the first time I bargain with the indigo snake. I find it basking on the rocks that are piled against the south side of our house, a laz…
7 years, 4 months ago
Molly Tanzer | The Real You™
We were getting coffee, which we used to do all the time, when Tierney told me she was thinking of having it done. “Really?” I asked, half-laughing--…
7 years, 4 months ago
Cameron Van Sant | Super-Luminous Spiral
Even though your creative fiction professor fawns over Joyce, you don’t understand the copy of ULYSSES you checked out from the library, so you hide …
7 years, 5 months ago
Dale Bailey | The Horror of Party Beach
All this happened a long time ago, in the summer when Blackboard Jungle ruled the screen, “Rock Around the Clock” shot up the charts, and Hal March a…
7 years, 5 months ago
Maria Dahvana Headley | You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You
The worst day of Wells the Magician’s life begins pleasantly enough, with a shot of whiskey at the Lost Kingdom bar. It’s a birthday party day, and a…
7 years, 5 months ago
Yoon Ha Lee | The Coin of Heart’s Desire
In an empire at the wide sea’s boundaries, where the clouds were the color of alabaster and mother-of-pearl, and the winds bore the smells of salt an…
7 years, 5 months ago