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Kyrielle

“It was her turn to paint the world in a different light, through words carefully arranged on a page. To assume the role of the enchanter and cast her clever spells. To dream with her eyes wide open.”

by Sofiia Shapovalova on August 6, 2022August 6, 2022

Rain

“A compass points to Borneo, and Oksana runs straight toward it.”

by Annie Yang on October 22, 2017October 20, 2017

My Month on Meat

“Don’t you think that things can be made special by being indescribable? That there’s a certain divinity in that?”

by Eva Vesely on May 23, 2024September 5, 2024

Three and One

A story.

by Jared Garland on November 21, 2012March 22, 2013

River House, Part 2

The continuation of a tale of fish and memory.

by Charlie Nuermberger on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022

How Prophecy was Invented

“In another town, she was a storyteller, but the children had spit back her stories wrong, turning the characters into parodies of themselves.”

by Ziyi Yan on March 28, 2025

My Sweet Galatea

A fictional author’s delusion creates and clings to the perfect woman.

by Otto Eiben on December 4, 2022

Silence

“Stillness had never seemed so distant from serenity.”

by Mia Salas on March 10, 2019March 9, 2019

When blood is nipped and ways be foul

“She stood there, shuddering in place. She shook from the cold, from the fear, from the pain. She shook for what she had lost — something she knew could not be put back. For she now understood that Fear was not something lodged in her chest like shrapnel, but rather something that was taken away.”

by Scarlett Huntington on November 22, 2025

To Build a Monster

TO BUILD A MONSTER Synthetic taste, algorithmic broth, and neural-net nuggets stitched together. No human input required—just sit back and let the bots cook up something… alive?   INGREDIENTS 4 Full skeletal remains 2 Embalmed corpses with all organs attached … Read More

by Elaine Gao on October 31, 2024October 31, 2024

Welcome to WolfWorld

There’s only wolves and people left.

by Samuel Bollen on October 24, 2016

Finding God at 35

“She was looking for something not entirely visible, not entirely tangible, not entirely a glow-in-the-dark beetle whose bum lit up, but some kind of reminder that the strange and ephemeral can manifest as physical, biological.”

by Aiko Offner on August 2, 2025August 2, 2025


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