Ask A Necromancer, by Amanda Downum
A Fantastic Voyage Adam wants to know about “phases of decomp, assuming [a] cool/cold outdoor setting.” I love a good voyage of discovery through the stages of decomposition. So much…
issue-03
Undoing, by Zin E. Rocklyn
The Universe eats itself until there is nothing but air and space nothing but you and me. I am the God of Undoing, your breath my playground. I leave you…
October’s Ghost, by Caitlyn Paxson
I work in haunted houses. In this one, there was a child who drowned in the well. In that one, a woman wasted away of cancer. Here, there lived a…
the ending, by Gwynne Garfinkle
I picture you at your typewriterimpossibly young in the blackand white world of the 1950swriting I Bury the Livingyears before my birthyour father over ten years gone black pins…
Chernobyl Litany, by Gemma Files
I It goes up, forever. Changes the sky’s color.A howl in the sere grass. A death, root-sunken,resonates down into the water table, nested ringsof shale and lava. A tremble…
Cause and Manner, by Jeannelle Ferreira
Everything washes away,Red running down to silver against zinc.The tools are set aside. The voices stay,Locked in drawers at the end of the shift. Red runs down to silver in…
The General’s Turn, by Premee Mohamed
Content Notes Descriptions of war, execution, and violence. So it begins. And the play is conducted upon the gears of a clock. Constructed inside this ancient cathedral the bright artifice…
To the (mostly) living, by J.D. Harlock
I hope this letter finds you ill. I write to you today having finally succumbed to the weariness that has plagued me since you stumbled upon nuclear fission all those…