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“Maybe we should have noticed sooner,” says Elaine Bantam, “but we all go through that phase around here.” She sits next to her husband, Nat, on the couples’ front porch, facing the cameras. “Started with small things,” Elaine continues. “Ralph, our oldest, began leaving milk and bread on the back porch every night. Now, I’m […]

It was ill luck that found Aphra tending the mother vine on Roanonck in a late August squall. It was a fate fouler still that found her watching as a pirate ship scuppered itself on the nearest Carolina barrier island. She stood next to a live oak while the sailors launched a dingy, which began […]

The god’s carcass floated between the Marble Nebula and the Third-Quadrant Gate. Scavengers had already begun harvesting vital minerals and resources from the decaying godfall and ships matched its velocity as they fell through the cosmos. Most were enterprise-grade ships, though smaller vessels dotted the space between. Many had a charter to sell their harvest […]

No one can hear you scream in space, which I thought meant it would be quiet. That was before I’d spent two hundred days in this patchwork maze of ducts and tubing we called a colony. Thwack! Thin metal panels adjusted to pressure changes with swift switches to convexity. Somewhere, a sensor flipped, a fan […]

Deep in the Valley of Unwanted Souls, at the dreariest end of a narrow gravel road, the colorless fog parts and a wagon pulled by a lone, clip-clopping mule arrives with the midnight deliveries. The wagon stops between two monstrous structures built of shadows and cloud-reaching stone spires. The Asylum and the Library. Both sanctuaries […]

It’s been thirteen years since I threw that old red flip phone across the beige-carpeted living room of my first apartment in Albuquerque, startling the white rabbit I lived with, who hopped away into the bathroom and hid behind the toilet. The memory erasure worked, for thirteen years. But after watching that viral video on […]