Issue 014

By H. G. Watson When Al dreamed, she always found herself deep in a forest. The trunks of redwoods towered over her. The sun dappled through the green leaves. Al craned her face up, greedy for the ...

By Erin Strubbe I I wake in the night to hollow bones cracking against my window. The Dorsal is dim and folded up at the City’s nape. The atmosphere streaming out from the Gills makes the distant s...

By Naomi Eselojor You’d never call yourself a revolutionist. You’d never play God. You didn’t need to. You were Tobias Williams, a brilliant billionaire doctor and research engineer who owned the o...

By Anj Baker Beyond asteroid H764, there were only the gas giants and their pelagic moons, and man had given up on those moons a long time ago. For all intents and purposes, H764 was the end of the...

By Anastasia Kirchoff Some remember the procedure as an incision behind the ear. Others, as an injection, though this seems less likely. Eventually, we forget the joining. How It breached us. Our b...

By Allan Dyen-Shapiro He’s one of them. Sure, the version of Yakov Cohen who sits beside my bed in this clinic on Jerusalem’s outskirts almost passes for my husband of seven years, but I know he’s ...

By Aia Järvinen Cora knew no life outside the circus. That’s what they called themselves—the circus—that motley company of human survivors. It was just the humans now, no animals. She would’ve like...

By A. P. Thayer SUNRISE Go on, now,” my mother croaks. “The Mechanic is expecting these before sundown.” Her voice is worse now, and she takes a deep breath after speaking. She winces with the exer...

By Zachary Rosenberg My people once shaped golems from stone and clay. Now we make one cast in steel. She lies before us, silver in color, save for the golden Star of David on her chest. I congratu...