by Mary Anne Mohanraj | Sep 19, 2017 | Fiction
The human female, Narita, turned back to Jequith after the door slid shut. “I’m so sorry.” “You did not have to turn away your friend, just because we are here.” Jequith said the words politeness demanded, but it was intensely grateful...
by S.B. Divya | Sep 19, 2017 | Fiction
Year 1: I come into the world wet and squalling and ordinary, born of heterosexual bio-parents. Year 2: A flat photo shows me on my first birthday with a shock of red hair, wide green eyes, and an expression of distaste at the sticky white frosting on my fingers. My...
by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali | Sep 19, 2017 | Fiction
1. Some say that Mistress Ata Madidi is not of man, but birthed from the brackish waters of the Ebedi Ocean. They say she is divine, called into being by the need of one desperate woman to tame man and claim a free life. Like the ocean, the beloved Mistress is a...
by Mahesh Raman | Sep 19, 2017 | Fiction
Mu sits on the edge of the bed in the Midtown apartment, looking out the window. In front of him, on the windowsill, there is the yellow pill and a glass of water. He feels helpless, robbed of free will. Whether he takes the pill or not, his actions feel...
by Brian Daniel Green | Apr 11, 2017 | Fiction, Flash
Podcast: Read by Florita Gunasekara Vagovidopito squatted in his hovel at the center of the Sun. A place so cold, the Sun’s heat only managed a single drip down the blackened icicle hanging from his pointy warty nose. Hunched over, he carved every new soul and blew...
by Eliza Chan | Apr 11, 2017 | Fiction
Illustration by Kieran Walsh We must not have heard her knock. The rice paper door slid open and an elderly woman in a yukata bowed low at the entrance. ‘Excuse my intrusion, I’ve brought your evening meal,’ the attendant said, raising her head and looking briefly at...
