The Day We Learned Most of us immediately pulled off our shoes and popped our shirt-buttons, released the thunder of … More
Category: The Future
Posing utopic, apocalyptic, dystopic, or superhero solutions to “The Future.” Writers depict futuristic alternative worlds in politics, environment, gender, religion, sexuality, or ethnography.
Three Poems from The Future: Caely McHale
Mona Lisa My hands are the last human thing about me.I keep my fingernails pink.I arrange them soft like the … More
Two Poems from the Future: Oak Morse
DaBaby, the 49th President Lime Lamborghinis for college grads Diamond grillz for senior citizens … More
The Future: “Wellness in the Workplace: A Professional Development Series,” fiction by Dolan Morgan
Series Overview How can the organization best build capacity and develop tools to avoid burnout and respond with confidence to … More
Two Poems from The Future: Lauren Camp
Into Sleep I Sang the Destruction Sleep crowned my childhoodwith dreams ravenous to show me the magnifiedunderside of logic. When … More
J Pascutazz: Three Poems from The Future
Is There Life for Us Outside the Dome City? The dome sky blackened like her mood ringleaving precious few hours … More
A Story from The Future: Leland Cheuk’s “Frontliners”
I SHUDDERED AFTER REBECCA SAID she’d ordered takeout and toilet paper again. I was getting nowhere with my intramarital campaign … More
Two Flash Fictions from The Future by Soramimi Hanarejima
Renewed Sensitivity YOUR DISTRUST OF PEOPLE IS verging on paranoia, and although I remain exempt from your unfounded scrutiny, talking … More
“Skullface” by Rick Claypool: A Novel Excerpt for The Future
1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings to … More
The Future: “The Wormhole Nextdoor,” a short story by Tara Campbell
A story about potholes, black holes, wormholes, and cats, told in the form of a Nextdoor thread, in hope of … More
The Future: DEAR WOLFMOTHER, a post-apocalyptic, digital novel in four parts by Matthew Burnside
The WOLFMOTHER quartet is a post-apocalyptic digital novel that will unfold in four serialized installments / seasons / operatic movements … More
“Angel Gone Rogue”: SILVERFISH, a Clash Books novella by Rone Shavers, reviewed by Moazzam Sheikh
I once translated a highly symbolic story by one of the finest modern Urdu writers Intizar Husain, “A Senseless Upheaval,” … More
“The Taxidermist”: Poetry from The Future by Jonas Gomez Tijerino
This city of ours, whose land reaches across its two lakes like the arm of a drowning Man, is burdened … More
Kodi Saylor: Three Poems from The Future
Subject: Requirements for Emulation To: Octopus GirlsFrom: Bureau of EconomicsDate: 6/2/16, 10/25/16Subject: Requirements for Emulation We, guardians of—it has come … More
THE DEATH OF THE CYBORG ORACLE, a new sci-fi novel by Jordan A. Rothacker, reviewed by Jarrod Campbell (Spaceboy Books)
Genre tropes are rarely taken seriously by ivory tower literati, which is to their detriment given the wonderful writing that … More
