A Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy. Estd. 2015.
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FICTION, POETRY & MORE
Sonya, Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the Telephone
Sonya imagined escape after escape—run like hell? Scream for help? […] She resolved to make her death a screaming, thrashing one. Give the woman a few scars or bruises to remember her by.
The Carnival of Human Nature
“Kindly take off your armor and write it on these sheets of paper. You will get it back on exit. Please put your shoes, gloves, helmets and masks in this basket. You must enter the cardinal chambers willingly, and you must do so naked.”
Electrocologies
and our flesh buzzes with sentience / as seething intelligence infiltrates / the musculature and mind
The Executioner General
In terms of the legal system, volunteering would be a viable alternative to life in prison. Volunteers would never return to Earth once they left, so the British government acquiesced to let him sign up.
The Satyr’s Acolyte
The serpentine deities, Nehushtan and Ophidia, once conjoined twins, they devoured Godda’s forbidden windfalls and had their embrace cleaved asunder.
Vestiges of you
She leaps along the shoreline / Her feet playing life and death / Water droplets burning her flesh // Beyond the shattered concrete / The red fading, the bridge sinking / Your cities rise, blue jagged into the sky
Flower Arranging at the End of the Japanese Empire
At home I told my mom, “My flower sensei said I lack a Japanese soul. Said I was hopeless and a danger. Said I was harboring peonies about to explode into full-blown rebellion, like the terrorists down south. He treated me as if I was a Shin-Kalifonia sympathizer.”
Mud Dauber Wasp Nest
Some Yung Dynasty’s expert woodcarver captured this monk’s hot blaze of mystery… It knew well its place in time and space; no need to plan for how to find a grace.
Tethered and Tied
The little ships fly off and disappear like the seeds of a dandelion head / carrying with them the wonder and dreams of the people left behind.
The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima
“If I don’t kill this tea-master, this Kahoru . . . Hidemitsu will take it as a betrayal, won’t he? And he will call for my death, in turn.”