C.H. Irons

C.H. Irons is a writer and recent college graduate alternatively based in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and elsewhere. His short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, The Dread Machine, and Escape Pod.

Conscripted Flesh

C.H. Irons

The cigarette smoke feels like fire, searing holes into Cal’s brand new lungs. Lungs that are still fresh from the culture vats, that have barely tasted their first breath, and he just flooded them with nicotine. It feels good. Like he’s making the loaner his own. “Use of addictive substances is illegal in government-issued organics,” […]