Ryan Cole is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Virginia with his husband and snuggly pug child. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and his recent work has appeared in Clarkesworld, PodCastle, MetaStellar, Factor Four, and Voyage YA by Uncharted, among others. Find out more at www.ryancolewrites.com.
It starts with an inch-long slit in my neck. Mom notices first. “Got a secret you want to tell us?” she says with a laugh, chewing on the waffles that she makes for me and Dad every morning before school. She grins at me as wide as the scar on her neck where her own […]
Don’t date a fungus, my sister had tried to warn me. Too eager, too needy, too much of a chance it would smother my body in smelly gray peach fuzz, stealing all the love I was desperate to give it. All true, in the end. On my right foot, at least. My pinky-toe dewy and […]
