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Brainpink Umber

As her hair thinned, so did her skull, and they started to keep her out of the direct sun, for fear of her memories evaporating in the afternoon heat. A...

Brainpink Umber

As her hair thinned, so did her skull, and they started to keep her out of the direct sun, for fear of her memories evaporating in the afternoon heat. A...

Memories of the Old Sun

Unfortunately, this story is no longer available for free via our website. You can still find it in the ebook edition of issue 140 available here.

Memories of the Old Sun

Unfortunately, this story is no longer available for free via our website. You can still find it in the ebook edition of issue 140 available here.

Life Wager

Because Waigong ran out of money due to the rice shortage, he gambled away my mother, an eighteen-year-old girl known for her beauty and dance prowess. She danced like a...

Life Wager

Because Waigong ran out of money due to the rice shortage, he gambled away my mother, an eighteen-year-old girl known for her beauty and dance prowess. She danced like a...

Experiences: On Not Being Creative Enough to Be Creative

This is the story I always tell: at an early age, when I started to read, I decided I would be a writer. Then, through whatever television tropes appeared in...

Experiences: On Not Being Creative Enough to Be Creative

This is the story I always tell: at an early age, when I started to read, I decided I would be a writer. Then, through whatever television tropes appeared in...

Quietus

There was barely any resignation among the scant crowd that populated the rocky hills from which they looked down upon the stranger who had been chained to a dry tree;...

Quietus

There was barely any resignation among the scant crowd that populated the rocky hills from which they looked down upon the stranger who had been chained to a dry tree;...

Interview with Author Lyndsie Manusos

In the beautiful and intricate “Whisper Songs,” an organization known as Amplexum sends out veiled workers (Sonos) to harvest the songs of fallen birds, the records of a dying world....

Interview with Author Lyndsie Manusos

In the beautiful and intricate “Whisper Songs,” an organization known as Amplexum sends out veiled workers (Sonos) to harvest the songs of fallen birds, the records of a dying world....

Whisper Songs

The Fledglings Three blue jays, newly minted from their eggs, took flight over a quiet Indiana suburbia. They took in the houses, stamped like honeycombs, and darted under the cool...

Whisper Songs

The Fledglings Three blue jays, newly minted from their eggs, took flight over a quiet Indiana suburbia. They took in the houses, stamped like honeycombs, and darted under the cool...