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Issue #11
(Originally published in Skeptic magazine.)I went to the local farmer’s market at the public library today, and I was pretty sure that none of the fragrant, shining offerings were GMOs. In fact, that’s why I went to the farmer’s market, to avoid GMOs and pesticides, and to chat with the people who grew the food…
According to Zapotec belief, the spirits are with us as Daniel and I wander the ruins of Mitla. In fact, we’ve been among them since we landed in Oaxaca de Juárez and they won’t return to the underworld for two days yet. It was easier to believe it in the city, where the air is…
Had you been a dragonfly, I might have known how to stay with you. I might have transformed my views on the fragility of a macroinvertebrate, since you were stronger than anything I knew. The strength your body had gave you the ability to evolve through incomplete metamorphosis, while I could transform nothing besides my…
Had You Been A Dragonfly
(Originally published in Decoded Pride.)She went a different way through the woods. Typically at this junction Katherine would turn south, the most direct way toward the bridge that crossed the river Far-Away-Water, and return to the village from the west. But if she went north she could watch the winter sunset from the top of…
Families Are All Alike
Kristin PetersonWhat does it mean to live an authentic life? To find belonging and meaning we must tear down the lies to reveal who we are beneath, we must undergo a paradigm shift. You know that love you wish you felt from your parents, how safe you should have felt with them? That is how we…
13 Tourist Destination for Horror Lovers
Annie Neugebauer(Originally published at Lit Reactor.)November is a gorgeous month for traveling! From leaf peeping to camping, it’s probably the nicest time of year to see the sights. But true horror lovers want more than fall foliage; we want scary ass shit. So I’ve put together a list of 13 destinations for fans of the macabre,…Aardvark
Jackson VranaKaren brought me the eggs as a gift this morning and I figured it was a simple gesture and nothing more, that she had too many in her coop. The problem is that Karen is an easily excitable person with pointy ears and humungous teeth, and there’s a widespread and undisputed theory that these attributes…
Nelly’s World
Arthur H. Manners(Originally published in Divergent Realms:Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories About Neurodivergence.)Rachel had been buried less than four hours before Nelly escaped upstairs to her gaming rig. After the stragglers headed home from the wake, I stood in her bedroom doorway. The house was silent except for the click-clack of her joysticks.Nelly’s preteen body slumped against…
Mr And Mrs Kett
Sam Hicks(Originally published in Nightscript.)You might say I couldn’t have been dead. But I accepted that my fight was over as I drifted like a feather, down into the soft spread of darkness. Then the darkness jolted from my lungs. There came the growl of a dog and distant words:“It’s Catherine, isn’t it? There, there—you fell…She-Wolf
Arden PowellMy sister has always lived by the dogwood tree, but her cabin is no longer her own. I return to it nightly, and every night there is less of her than there was the night before.The woods are constant and unchanging. I go to see my sister. I stray from the path. I am found…My Greatest Irrational Fear: When Proteins Turn – The Insidious Horror of Prion Disease
Veda VilliersA prion, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is "a protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally." This phenomenon leads to a condition known as prion disease.Prion Disease.I know, sounds something like a made up sci-fi ailment ravaging some distant space colony turning settlers to zombies. But this is…
In Defense of Anti-Science
(Originally published in Skeptic magazine.)I went to the local farmer's market at the public library today, and I was pretty sure that none of the fragrant, shining offerings were GMOs. In fact, that's why I went to the farmer's market, to avoid GMOs and pesticides, and to chat with the people who grew the food…Had You Been A Dragonfly
Had you been a dragonfly, I might have known how to stay with you. I might have transformed my views on the fragility of a macroinvertebrate, since you were stronger than anything I knew. The strength your body had gave you the ability to evolve through incomplete metamorphosis, while I could transform nothing besides my…El Rumbo de la Muerte
According to Zapotec belief, the spirits are with us as Daniel and I wander the ruins of Mitla. In fact, we’ve been among them since we landed in Oaxaca de Juárez and they won’t return to the underworld for two days yet. It was easier to believe it in the city, where the air is…
Pepper Honey And Cedar Smoke
(Originally published in Decoded Pride.)She went a different way through the woods. Typically at this junction Katherine would turn south, the most direct way toward the bridge that crossed the river Far-Away-Water, and return to the village from the west. But if she went north she could watch the winter sunset from the top of…Families Are All Alike
What does it mean to live an authentic life? To find belonging and meaning we must tear down the lies to reveal who we are beneath, we must undergo a paradigm shift. You know that love you wish you felt from your parents, how safe you should have felt with them? That is how we…13 Tourist Destination for Horror Lovers
(Originally published at Lit Reactor.)November is a gorgeous month for traveling! From leaf peeping to camping, it’s probably the nicest time of year to see the sights. But true horror lovers want more than fall foliage; we want scary ass shit. So I’ve put together a list of 13 destinations for fans of the macabre,…Aardvark
Karen brought me the eggs as a gift this morning and I figured it was a simple gesture and nothing more, that she had too many in her coop. The problem is that Karen is an easily excitable person with pointy ears and humungous teeth, and there’s a widespread and undisputed theory that these attributes…Nelly’s World
(Originally published in Divergent Realms:Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories About Neurodivergence.)Rachel had been buried less than four hours before Nelly escaped upstairs to her gaming rig. After the stragglers headed home from the wake, I stood in her bedroom doorway. The house was silent except for the click-clack of her joysticks.Nelly’s preteen body slumped against…Mr And Mrs Kett
(Originally published in Nightscript.)You might say I couldn’t have been dead. But I accepted that my fight was over as I drifted like a feather, down into the soft spread of darkness. Then the darkness jolted from my lungs. There came the growl of a dog and distant words:“It’s Catherine, isn’t it? There, there—you fell…My Greatest Irrational Fear: When Proteins Turn – The Insidious Horror of Prion Disease
A prion, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is "a protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally." This phenomenon leads to a condition known as prion disease.Prion Disease.I know, sounds something like a made up sci-fi ailment ravaging some distant space colony turning settlers to zombies. But this is…
