“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

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

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

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

Despite My Reservations Regarding the Apocalypse the dragon outside my bedroom window tells methat the end is coming soon, that … More

FROM BACK BEFORE ALL THE dogs were gone, I remember Waffles. The first time Waffles stole a waffle from Dad’s … More

The man who smells of lemons dresses in brown and red. He stands, still as a bleeding tree, in a … More

Identity Vortex [ “Can Rivers Be People Too? : Inside the Radical Movement to Gain Rights for Ecosystems—and Save the … More

I have fled to a floating island of trash to tell you stories of the peaceful north woods. Here’s one—A man … More

Marc S. Cohen is an artist, writer, and musician born in the United States and residing in Toronto, Canada. He … More

Margo Berdeshevsky is the author of: BEFORE THE DROUGHT (Glass Lyre Press/2017). She is the winner of Fiction Collective Two’s … More

Time before the alarms, when violence was only overseas, seemed disconnected from the now—silent countdown. Clark glanced at his watch. … More