New Story: The Long Way Home
“I always try to tell Anna that it’s not the cold that gets you — it’s the wind. But, oh what I’d give for a little wind now. Any wind.” –The Long […]
Category Archives: fiction
A Message From your PolyTech Home Smart Lock
No, it’s not quite time for the story-of-the-month, but I wanted to share a short little modern romance that I jotted up and couldn’t convince McSweeney’s to take. I can’t […]
New Story: The Book of Tobit
“I had half a mind to make up some story. Wondered if it might make this easier. For you, for me. But it seems wrong to lie about things like […]
New Story: Poison
“Its founders had intended to honor Henry Polson. But the courthouse clerk had quarreled with his wife that morning, and his foul mood conspired with the document’s uncertain orthography to […]
New Story: Nor Any Drop To Drink
“The thing is, I don’t think I would have tried to pick a fight with Viva. Or any of our other Marine Techs, for that matter. It wasn’t that they […]
New Story: Raiders of the Lost Triwall
“Shelly can think of more embarrassing ways to die, and she’s had more than enough time to enumerate them. But none that feel so ironic, nor as damning to her […]
New Story: Aisle 28, Christmas Eve
“The thought comes to him seemingly out of nowhere: this is nothing like Fallujah. But the fact that he has even evoked the comparison frightens him. The fog of […]
