Issue 018

By Dark Matter Staff For the final issue of Dark Matter Magazine, staff members were asked to pick a few of their favorite stories, issues, and art features from the magazine’s three years in print...

By Andy DudakOriginally Published in Interzone 1 The song plays everywhere in this frontier provincial capital, piped into shops and bazaars, blaring from police fortifications and mobile propagand...

By Angela Liu “What am I doing here?” I ask myself this question every day as we sew the body back up and carefully wipe the plasticine skin until every inch is smooth like quality leather. For a m...

By Steph Nelson A decision must be made. He has to wake up. Wake up. Wake up. They’re talking about me. Distant voices I don’t recognize cut through darkness like an intercom. I’m dreaming. That mu...

By Drew Huff We opened the pod to euthanize today’s first body, but it was already dead. “Adam, you asshole,” Evie said, holding up the emergency lantern. “It was my turn to jab one.” “Bring the li...

By Jean-Paul L. Garnier Chipped they put a chip in my brain said it would speed up thoughts clearly weren’t thinking about sleep but now I am, lots, and fast hunger, heartrate, digestion chip rode ...