The Atrium David Ward The town hall had been built in bad circumstances, by bad people, and in a bad location. The old city planner had missed the giant, town-square bullseye and thunked the hall at the edge of the board in such a tangle of one-way streets that visitors could never approach the building…
Wrought What…? by JW Burns God likes to look back. Not so much the catastrophic parts, which after a few repetitions tend toward incidental wizardry rather than sustained narrative, but rather He enjoys gazing at old favorites, which rest like disciplined furniture in His many mansions. Thinking ordinary usually starts following some vast reconfiguration or…
Sweeter Is the Meat Roxanne Grandis Down at the zoo, the lions are considering a rebellion. “Fresh meat,” they roar. “We want fresh meat.” They have voracious looks in their eyes as they stare at the little girls and boys in freshly washed underpants and socks—looks that seem to take in ankles to eyelids all…
Headstory Heidi Sadler Mammo’s told me a thousand times about way back in the twenty-teens when Headshows could make the police come. Everyone was super-duper correct-o back then, and there wasn’t nothing but scraps of TV left to show folks what freaks was. Now we’re everywhere no thanks to the skeeter disease that turned most…
Aboard the Ark —an occurrence in five parts— Jaclyn Costello I Safina As Safina travels Far North, her passengers grow weary. They have not yet become aware of their situation. They only watch as all that was once familiar drifts further from sight. The passengers continue to live their terrestrial lives while, at the same…
