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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.

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

flash fiction, short short, Soramimi Hanarejima, The Future

“Skullface” by Rick Claypool: A Novel Excerpt for The Future

Skullface 1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings … More

excerpt, Fiction, novel, Rick Claypool, The Future

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

Fiction, PowerPoint, short story, Tara Campbell, The Future

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

DEAR WOLFMOTHER, Matthew Burnside, novel, The Future

“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

Clash Books, Moazzam Sheikh, Rone Shavers, Silverfish

“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

HFR Archives, Jonas Gomez Tijerino, Poetry, The Future

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

HFR Archives, Kodi Saylor, Poetry, The Future

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

Jarrod Campbell, Jordan A. Rothacker, Spaceboy Books, The Death of the Cyborg Oracle

Asa Montgomery: Three Poems from The Future

Like having your eyes sewn shut 1 Someone planted a treein my stomach. Roots tore through my ribs, limbs pokingunder … More

Asa Montgomery, HFR Archives, Poetry, The Future

The Future: SACRED PLACES TAROT DECK by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

The Night City PROVIDENCE, FROM TWILIGHT TO THE hour of the wolf. The hill, the river, the secret stairs behind … More

HFR Archives, tarot, The Future, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

“Woe of the World,” a Future Drama by Rachel Joseph

GoatChorus of SufferersMedeaAntigoneSusanMollyLizzieOrestesGaryRodolfoTed At rise: A ritual. Sunrise to sunset.       SUFFERERS OH, THE WOE OF THE world … More

drama, HFR Archives, play, Rachel Joseph, The Future

“Plastic Light,” flash fiction from The Future by Jerrod Schwarz

THE DAM WAS A WEIRD body at night. Big half of a hip. Bladderskin wrapped over a coccyx. Cut a … More

flash fiction, HFR Archives, Jerrod Schwarz, The Future

The Future: “Really Good Puppets,” a short story by Jill M. Talbot

THINGS CAN BE PEOPLE, WHEN you get down to it, and this can be dangerous. It is most dangerous when … More

Fiction, HFR Archives, Jill M. Talbot, The Future

Fiction from The Future: “Old Faithful” by Nathan Dragon

HE’D SAY IF MAYBE HE got a new one, he’d be able to get some work done. The desk chair … More

Fiction, HFR Archives, Nathan Dragon, The Future

The Future: “Women with Runes,” a short story by Michelle Dove

Independence IT IS HERE—THE CELEBRATION of our country’s birth—and the heat is a trillion or two trillion degrees. To stay … More

Fiction, HFR Archives, Michelle Dove, The Future

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