by Bhushita Vasistha | Sep 10, 2018 | Fiction
Many years ago, when the earth was still very young and her every toss and turn frightened mortals, propelling them to create a pantheon of omnipresent gods, there was a great learned yogi-alchemist named Agastya. He was convinced that there was a mysterious pattern,...
by Rajendra Shepherd | Sep 10, 2018 | Fiction
In a mega-fat future not too far from now, cake is like gold and it’s a currency that can take you places. In the inevitable fringe, life imitates good order, but Mason Well is a forgotten promise where life isn’t good… not one little bit. Every day, to Jon’s simple...
by Dennis Mombauer | Jun 16, 2018 | Fiction
When it rained, only dust fell from the sky. The preformed people were out on the streets, fighting their little wars, but not much else moved under the suffocating heat. Baladrick needed to escape the city, but all the trains had been stopped, or not exactly stopped,...
by Rahad Abir | Jun 16, 2018 | Fiction
They call me Lilli Man. They call me other names too. Lilli Butcher, for example. Ever since I started the farm they began baptising me ‘Lilliputian.’ Everything was going fine… Until the day the policeman came. The allegation was pure hogwash. He said I had been...
by Damien Krsteski | Jun 16, 2018 | Fiction
1. Arrival Nicholas landed at Vaptsarov Airport on a cold March dawn, three weeks before the country collapsed. With only a shoulder bag for luggage in which he carried his laptop, passport, and a guilty-pleasure romance paperback with the front cover stripped, he...
by Erik Born | Sep 19, 2017 | Fiction
Translated from the German by Erik Born Publication Note As far as we are aware, the source for this translation is in the public domain, since the text was originally published in Germany in 1904 and the author passed away in 1910. Translator’s Preface Kurd...