issue 33 – PSYCHOPOMP.COM

For Kristen, Who Would Have Turned 47 Today, by Melissa Frederick

April 7, 2020 I found your obituary in an online archive,where our newspapers return to earththese days. Hard to explain the […]

WINTER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3600 WORDS The first time I saw you was at the beginning. This world was flat

WINTER 2024, SHORT STORY, 1900 WORDS I was serving pints of Leinie’s to a pair of flannel-clad retirees when the

most ghost sightings are griefhallucinations. no one wants to admitto delusion, even when inducedby tragedy. scientists say we are shifting

WINTER 2024, SHORT STORY, 1100 WORDS I arrived in a meteor shower, imprisoned within minuscule specks of ice and dust.

There you lie—with a thin tube attached to the side of your neck, an oxygen mask tightly clasped around your

WINTER 2024, SHORT STORY, 2200 WORDS There has always been a sparrow inside me. At first it was just an

Publisher’s Note: this poem is best read on a desktop or tablet, as mobile viewing does not preserve the deliberate

WINTER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3100 WORDS As she crashed through the atmosphere of Earth, crackling through the stratosphere and into

Reappears, out of the thick grey smog, our edificerazed to the ground again: columns cracked open by power lines,