On her wedding day
she is red and black and white:
cheeks flushed with desire,
dark hair spilling over bridal gown.
She sits before...
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Rachel Swirsky is a Nebula award-winning author of short stories, novelettes, and novellas spanning speculative fiction to literary...
PART ONE: LIVING
New Year’s celebrations crashed through the streets of Whitcry in a din of masks and swirling petticoats. Pottery...
Jacob’s wife is always screaming: Cheat! Scoundrel! Layabout! Scrooge!
Jacob takes solace in the mausoleum. Girls there are quiet...
I’m probably going to die
at midnight.
Don’t worry—
I’ll set the timer on the coffee pot
before I go.
The crows will be up with...
If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You’d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height...
[TRIGGER WARNING: Some readers may find this story disturbing]
My cock is throbbing so I pull it out.
My wife lolls in front...
I was supposed to go to the ball, but I spent the night licking out my stepsister instead.
Bethesda moaned and rustled mulberry...
