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Tag: Fiction
Fiction from The Future: “The Freewheeling Bicycle Coast” by Perry Genovesi
The Freewheeling Bicycle Coast In which the people of the Coast realize that the new way of walking was so … More
“If There’s a Window—a New Possibility”: Allison Wyss Talks to Mary Lynn Reed
Mary Lynn Reed is a fiction writer and mathematician—but I’ve learned she’s also a photographer, shark-level pool player, and ace … More
“I Cherish the Act of Sentencing”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen is one of America’s most formally inventive and intellectually stimulating novelists. Few writers have been as consistently excellent … More
“Ghost Fingers,” a Haunted Passages short story by Justin Carter
Ghost Fingers Sometime in the 1940s, a school bus in Horton, Texas, was hit by a train after stalling on … More
Short Fiction: “Adrift” by Max Wheeler
Adrift Like so much in Hassan’s long life, this transition was something done to him, not by him. My mom … More
“White Girls with Cornrows,” a Side A short story by Brent Joseph Johnson
White Girls with Cornrows I first came across Amber and Ashley while I was working at Ego’s maybe six or … More
Haunted Passages: “The Gold-Eyed Plague,” a short story by Sophie Panzer
The Gold-Eyed Plague The girls arrived on a bad wind like blight and ate up our lives like locusts. Some … More
Fiction from The Future: “The Prank Caller” by Will Musgrove
The Prank Caller Door flopping like an unknotted robe, Mrs. Robinson’s refrigerator sprinted past my living room window. Two human-esque … More
Side A Fiction: “In Pictures” by J.T. Price
In Pictures When girls asked who her father was, sometimes Norma Jeane said she didn’t know, and sometimes said she’d … More
“Car-X”: An Excerpt from Angela Woodward’s New Novel Ink
“We have extensive accounts, typed out neatly: ‘They took me into a dark room and started hitting me on the … More
“Call Me Kitty,” a new Haunted Passages short story by Kelly Gray
Call Me Kitty I’m on my way to a party down the highway at one of the houses in town … More
Short Fiction: “To Have Done with the Division of Moving Bodies” by John Madera
To Have Done with the Division of Moving Bodies The day the killer killed the bitch, the town-they-called-a-city’s grayscale sky … More
“Take-Out,” an original fiction by Kip Knott for Flavor Town USA
Take-Out Sometimes Clay can’t believe he still lives in the house he grew up in. His dad still lives there, … More
“Omens”: A New Haunted Passages Short Story by Andrew Bertaina
Omens When the moon appeared, a violent red sphere riding low on the prow of the sky, everyone in the … More