“They’re trying to re-populate their planet and need help from humans?” “Yeah,” Colin yawned, “but they can’t mate with us.” “Have you been to the recreation room?” Kyle pulled the scratch…
She listens as he plays the piano in the living room downstairs – a peculiar tune, one she doesn’t know. She gets out of bed and goes to join him, to finally say the thing. The room is dark…
Every year, the English fields are ploughed, corrugating the earth. Every year, the plow overturns the long-discarded history beneath the surface, a new layer exposed. Every year, as da…
In a bamboo garden in Kyoto, fox-boy slips through the canes, tail muddy. I follow him to his hole. He asks about Li. I tell him she is married now. The hole swallows him; I listen bu…
A matador walks into the forest. A killer by any other name, he is called Paolo. He even has a red cape, which he lays down over the moss. He sets out wine and Monchego. She comes sniff…
The cat proved harder to catch that Tassie had anticipated. The cage full of crickets hadn’t worked, and neither had the live mouse (though she saw an excited flick of tail from the cor…
“Look Darian, we’re just a bunch of kids trying to make a living. No one cares that it’s real magic…not until something awful happens anyway, but that’s why we just keep mov…
Different Planet, Same Apple – Luna Station Quarterly
Busboy, Fourteen Laying a bucket under the alien’s retching mouth sucked. Holding her hair, super sucked! What’s the Difference? Business jacket, skirt. Red plastic glasses. Pomegrana…
There’s a rough beauty to his face that catches the light, crude and yet gem-bright. Standing beside the gardener effused with such lush life, Myrtle felt like a hollow shell in comparison, h…
Adam and María had twelve hours together after dropping the skiff into orbit. There wasn’t much to do but watch the monitors. Adam was horny and María wasn’t having any of it, whi…
Worst. Birthday. Ever. Julie thought, kicking off her heels. Over her 30th birthday dinner, her new boyfriend had berated her about everything from her sexual history (too extensive…
I stand over my late husband’s grave, reciting the spell that I paid dearly for – a spell to raise the dead. I trip over the arcane tongue, mispronouncing a word. Shit! It…
Is There a Sacred Place for Metallic Sinners? – Luna Station Quarterly
“You are the worst of my children,” the old woman whispered lovingly. The robot stroked her hair, his hand a clever combination of sensors, mechanical nerve paths and organic musc…
One Last Ride on the Horse with Purple Roses – Luna Station Quarterly
Eleanor held the little monster’s paw as they walked through the park, ignoring the stares and laughter from passersby. This was their day, their last day, and she would not let anyone ruin it. The…