Fictional Worlds

Heat like a hand at her throat then a breeze kicked up from Lake Borgne to swat Winnie sweetly across the face. One of those breezes every hour. A muddy, warm thing that got her through the day. What would life be without a breeze off the lake? Noth…

Almost everyone I entertain over a frosted fifth of vodka—bottle balanced precariously on a foldout tray, half my attention on keeping it upright—wants to know how I became a competitive eater. Also, how I found myself living on the Dbovotav Coastal…

The silk threads of grief and time snap and spin away from the black looms, but all Freia wants to do is go back to Vienna. Dozens of women work the looms in the magnanery. Hands fly as the threads spin out of the boiling cocoons. Freia doesn’t work…

I try to take a picture of the eerie. The power’s out, so I’m like, okay, standing outside the Pump n’ Stuff, looking at the gas pumps. My last customer was twenty minutes ago. Down the street by the McDonald’s, the black veiny power lines seizure u…

Something happened to you after you had the baby. via Pocket

What the Skeleton Detective Tells You (while you picnic), by Katherine Kendig | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2nQmExa

Gone to Earth, by Octavia Cade | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Bp4v3h

The Imitation Sea, by Lora Gray | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MwugD9

They Have a Name For That, by Sara Beitia | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2BrS2eX

If a bear… by Kathrin Köhler | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MFfFFl