Tag: Short Stories

Feeble Little Universes – Lulu Pettit

The Universe is a drop of rain. I watch it slither down the windowpane, writhing and wriggling slowly. Little water people on the little water droplet shriek in…

Worms – Andrew Duke

Four-million, five hundred forty thousand, three hundred two. I think the scariest it got was right after I died.  Don’t get me wrong, the moments right before were…

Tourbillon – Bracklinn Williams

Before today, it had been a long time since I had seen any real heroes who had visited the World Mechanism. The remorseful, the reformed, and the spurned…

First Day – Katrin Brinkman

Abigail’s puppies returned from their first day of high school wrecked as rafts against a reef. Shamira was skittery, strands of their hair tied in crooked spindle-braids. Zara…

Beautiful, Terrible – Jessica Wang

Content warning: Light gore It’s in the dust of my childhood memories that I find the bird. Beautiful, pure white with amber eyes. It regarded me tranquilly from…