Benthamidia uncurled her pale, four-petaled pink flowers and drank in the sunshine. It was a perfect spring day–the air was warm and sweet, and the stream beneath her cool and swollen with melted snow. A human scrambled up her trunk, scraping her bark with his fingernails. Benthamidia shuddered under […]
Jamie Lackey
Alison crawled between the boards over the abandoned house’s broken window and picked her way across the bare, dusty floor. The winter air was cold and still and smelled like rotting plaster, but Alison caught the faintest hint of lilacs. The kitchen door swung open at Alison’s touch and she […]
The Unicorn’s Gift
The captain locked her baby in the FTL for the jump. "Ma’am, human souls are the only thing strong enough to break the laws of physics." The robot dismantled his mistress for his freedom. But freedom was boring, so he rebuilt her. Soon, everyone would serve […]
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A woman in a red sweater stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and started to cry. One second, she was like everyone else, carefully expressionless and plugged in to her headphones, then she burst into noisy tears. People didn’t do that. Michael’s steps faltered. He wanted to […]
Prohibited Comfort
She ran the razor over her scalp, feeling lighter and lighter as snakes plopped to the floor. They’d grow back. She’d done this before. She pulled on a stocking cap and a pair of dark sunglasses and went out for coffee. She flirted with the boy who […]