A Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy. Estd. 2015.
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Vajra Chandrasekera: Caul
Editor's Note: "Caul" has been withdrawn from Mithila Review by the author.
Josh Brown: Apocalypse Later
Apocalypse Later why prepare now when I can prepare later why do today what can be done tomorrow I’d rather go fishing or for a walk than prepare for the end of the world. I’d rather go for a Sunday drive or maybe visit my parents than stockpile food and ammunition...
Melissa Frederick: Moving the Earth
Moving the Earth Melissa Frederick February 7, 1812 The farmers of New Madrid felt the first shudder of Manifest Destiny like Jesus crashing to earth like fierce fists striking the iron gates of heaven. It was the land, this time, that rebelled: tremors swept through...
Mark A. Fisher: Mazenderan
Mazenderan Mark A. Fisher was it love? that in darkness bound them or fear? that drew them together to become monsters phantoms in dark passages to dash romantically within a bubble of ignorance dressed-up illusions for a band of bigots and dumb-asses mere Keystone...
Abhishek Bhatt: Choose Your Killer
The biggest release of that year was a murder mystery. Three minutes into the movie, a cherubic cat named Nina was horrifically skinned alive and killed on camera for a snuff film. The next eighty-seven minutes gave you equally incriminating evidence against three...
Two Poems by Vinita Agrawal
Old Fabric Between the forefinger and thumb lie the creases of an appeal for Godknowswhat. A parchment collaged with wrinkled post-its, paper chits, yellow square one-D windows of years gone by. The chintz sofa of a shared life is worn Its Persian rug threadbare –...
Joshua Oppenheimer: Memories of Screams and Silence
In 2002, Joshua Oppenheimer arrived in Indonesia to instruct some workers on methods of documentary filmmaking at a plantation. What was meant to be a small trip turned into a long journey into Indonesia’s violent past that consists of one of the most horrifying...
Theodora Goss: Her Mother’s Ghosts
Her name is Ilona. The other children at school call her Smellona. She is not me, but I have been her. Here are the things I remember most clearly: _ She lives in a townhouse in Washington D.C. with her mother and younger brother, whose bangs are always cut crooked....
Theodora Goss: Writing My Mother’s Ghosts
This essay was presented as part of a panel called "Reeling Beyond Realism: But to Reel in What?" proposed by Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan of Omnidawn Publishing for the 2008 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in New York City. I'm grateful to...
Oliver Buckram: Presidential Cryptotrivia
Washington, D.C. is filled with grand monuments to our cherished history. Behind closed doors, however, dark secrets fester in the shadowy bowels of the American body politic. As the world's leading cryptohistorian, I've recently uncovered startling facts hitherto...