Author: kb8522

Four Variations on Drowning – Emily Yang

Mermaid and plastic buoys bobbing in teal slide from one toppled prism-face to another.  So obedient. So tiny. Dolphins and pink inner tubes ride back up.  Bubbles are…

Deus Ex Machina – Katrin Brinkman

Rhipzali Henthorn quit smuggling about six years and eleven jobs ago, which betrayed a lot about their resolution. It wasn’t desperation, either: they had steady work in a…

The Whisper of Edges – Lindsay McBride

Three hundred and fifty-six million years ago, a dinner plate clocking in at exactly 345 centikelvin barreled into my halcyon palace. I know because I measured it myself. …

Slow Burn – Bracklinn Williams

FADE IN INT. BEDROOM – MORNING MAN sits up in a white bed in an unadorned room. Everything in this house is barren and decaying: the walls are…