Editorial
Editorial: The Divine We
I might get a kitten. Maybe two. Wait, let me back up…It’s 100 degrees, and if I can just keep my garden alive and put this issue together, I’ll call the day a success. These days are so hard for me as a gardener. It’s right up there with the days I have to decide [...]
Science Fiction
Recitations
I came down to the disaster zone in a bubble-skiff, launched from a Responder-class galaxyship in high orbit. It skips and bumps on the turbulence. There are six of us, each wearing the flat white uniforms of United Galactic’s Crisis Response division.Outside the tempered window, the Nerian settlement Galapos burns. My synaesthograph’s goggles telegraph emotions [...]
Historical Fiction
A Concise History of the Goldfish Trade
“Use English,” says my mother, Nkij. “Like your father used to. The traders hear one word of what they call ‘Indian talk’, they’ll cheat us extra bad.”I arrive after a half day’s paddle, following the route my father described to me in his dying days. The settlers call this the Public Square. A dust and [...]
Fantasy
To Ashes
I.There are countless jets flying over the apartment. They announce themselves with roars so loud they vibrate in my shins. Sasha and I close the blinds and shut off the lights. We huddle on the floor in my room, and I’m sure that we’re about to be blown away any second.Sasha laughs. I don’t think [...]
