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Mathew Lebowitz

Mathew Lebowitz is a designer, technophile and partner in a digital transformation agency (mindbowser.com) and writer of literary/speculative fiction that explores the shaky relationship between humans and machines. He received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and his stories have appeared in Press, Pequod, The Baffler, Uncharted, F&SF and other magazines. He's a grateful recipient of a recent Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant for Fiction.

Panopticon

Mathew Lebowitz

The scryer was dead. The rusty bullet hole in the center of his forehead confirmed it. That, and his serene milky gaze into nowhere, the small smile on his blueing lips as if finally confirmed, in his final moments, of something long suspected. “What’s the prognosis?” Damon was only half paying attention, standing to the […]

P011Y: A Novel Excerpt

Mathew Lebowitz

CHAPTER I They come on the kind of night that Adele would have loved: wind strafing the mountain and pounding the cabin in rainy gusts. I’m in my usual spot in the darkened front room, near the windows, accompanied by my memory cube and Holox, recombining old stills and vids into a misty cone of […]

Demonym

Mathew Lebowitz

“I know what you’re thinking,” says Jake softly in my ear, his voice tentative and hopeful. We’re pushed close together in the lively crowd that lines the lower wharf, and I know if I turn he’ll give me an eyebrow lift or a conspiratorial wink to show we’re on the same page. Jake very much […]