“Listen. This is going to sound unbelievable, but it’s absolutely true. I’m speaking to you from the future.” “Don’t be daft.”...
On his fourth birthday, my son told me he wanted to leave. We must move on, he said, get away from this dustball while we still can. He was right, I knew, but he was talking about Firstfall, where for me, in spite of everything, love had bloomed...
Brad heaved what might be a truncated stainless steel water heater onto his table under the ancient live oaks. “Still peddling your miraculous apparatus?” Marquis said...
For the first time, there is another. I have always been alone, but now she permeates the ages just as I do, existing at once in all times and outside of time. She washes implacably over the past and future like a tide, asserting herself at every place and every time in a blink...
Christ stepped under center and began barking out signals, his long, lank tresses hanging out the back of his helmet. McMullen, the Raiders’ weak-side linebacker, was on his toes as if to blitz, but the Lord saw through this ruse and figured Oakland was probably going to drop into a Cover-2 zone...
Kirima’s ice skates hissed as she glided across her frozen pond. Four smooth strokes, then three crossovers, her left foot over her right, then four more strokes. Her skates left gouges and a trail of ice shavings. Her hair clung to her temples, and her breath misted in the cold air...
From the creator of the acclaimed Campbellian Anthology series comes STRAEON: a new quarterly exploration of stories that are longer, more complex, more mature, and more challenging than the norm. If you’re looking for space unicorns, sexy vampires, or short comedies that end in bad puns, you won’t find that here. But...
Looking for the perfect little stocking-stuffer to go with that new Kindle or tablet you just bought as a gift for someone special? You can’t go wrong with The Book of Judith, by Judith Field. But don’t take my word for it. Read the reviews...
Her body was a temple—pristine, polished, worshipped by all. They came from far and wide to pay their respects. She was beautiful. She was at the heart of it all...
When he first returned, we flocked to him like gulls to a fishing trawler. Even after those of us nearest had grown used to his celebrity in our midst, people traveled planet-wide in a never-ending pilgrimage to view the great explorer, and even more, to smell him...
1. Sol Goodbye “Who will have my Silver Tongue?” I was young again, a teenager in a bathrobe surrounded by twenty adults in formal clothing, individuals I could no longer remember...
Unlike most of his brethren, the dragon Slagadune slept with both eyes closed, for he could smell any intruder foolhardy enough to stumble into his cave. A single blast of his blazing breath would turn the hardest steel to ash and melt skin and bones to butter. What’s more...
The heavy ceramic angel sitting high on the shelf above the sliding glass door was perfect for what Sham, the ethereal, had in mind. That fat, orange cat had to die. Its death was the only way he could become a real ghost...
In retrospect, I should’ve realized there was something bizarre about Analyn much earlier than I did, certainly before we’d been dating for six weeks. But I was a college freshman, barely away from my overprotective mother, and eager to live life...
I’d been born and raised in sunny Florida, so isn’t it ironic that the one thing I fear most in life is a night-stalking bloodsucker? I’ve spent many nights staring out my bedroom window at eyes glaring back at me from the trees. My friends and family think I’m crazy, of course...