Caesura
Priya begins by striking the words love, hate, heart, and feel from the computer’s vocabulary, and blocks the internet. It isn’t with malicious intent. She d...
Sci-Fi
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As Though I Were A Little Sun
It has been one hundred and thirteen years since our mother’s pear and red date soup slid along my tongue, and now I taste only the sweetness of soil and rot...
StoriesWe Are Not Phoenixes
Remember that they are people. Most of them will be just as awed by what you can do as all your other audiences. If they’ve invited you, then they want you h...
We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon
The Night the River Meets the Sky
Chiripas
The chiripas came with the rain season. They were small, bean-sized insects the color of coffee that ran and hid whenever they felt seen and followed. At fir...
The Brightest Lights of Heaven
I haven’t seen Moira for fourteen years, but I dream about her all the time. The dream is always the same. We’re six years old and we’re dragons again — jump...
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
“By Cash pd Negroes for 9 Teeth on Acct of Dr. Lemoire” –Lund Washington, Mount Vernon plantation, Account Book dated 1784.
The Kingfisher Manifesto
White wings flashing in the gloom. Kingfisher. Perch, a hoarse rattle; head cocked, black eyes intent as I paddle upstream. Swoop to a new branch; chatter. H...
Haunted
Content note: This story explores themes of domestic violence.
The Bird
“Spontaneous remission,” the doctor says. “The primary mass in your pancreas is gone. Your PET scan is clear. It happens sometimes.”