Christopher Zerby is a Los Angeles based science fiction writer and a leading expert on imaginary robots. His stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Zooscape, The Colored Lens, Five on the Fifth, Murder Park After Dark, and The Ontario Review, and he’s written several novels. He’s also a host of the writing podcast The Genre Hustle, because the world surely needs more podcasts.
In a previous life he mixed records and drove around the U.S. and Canada in a van playing music. He regrets nothing.
Henry loved the way the flowers sang. “They sound like wind blowing through an arctic canyon,” he said. “Like a children’s choir. But a good one, you know? Not cheesy.” His head lay on my chest and he pushed it into my hand, asking me to keep playing with his hair while I tried to […]