In Another Lifetime In a basement in what was known as Seattle, a watchmakersolders a metal wing onto a robot … 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.
From “devours itself”: a mixed media collaboration for The Future by Alexandra Mattraw & Adam Thorman
*Ed.’s Note: click on image to view larger size. The Image Devours Itself 1 Adam Thorman If only my mouth … More
Two Poems from The Future: Jessica Morey-Collins
The Day We Learned Most of us immediately pulled off our shoes and popped our shirt-buttons, released the thunder of … More
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
Wellness in the Workplace: A Professional Development Series Series Overview How can the organization best build capacity and develop tools … 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”
Frontliners I shuddered after Rebecca said she’d ordered takeout and toilet paper again. I was getting nowhere with my intramarital … 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
Skullface 1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings … More
The Future: “The Wormhole Nextdoor,” a short story by Tara Campbell
The Wormhole Nextdoor A story about potholes, black holes, wormholes, and cats, told in the form of a Nextdoor thread, … 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
The Taxidermist This city of ours, whose land reaches across its two lakes like the arm of a drowning Man, … More