Tag: Story

  • When Sea Dragons Fly

    by Bonnie Elizabeth in Issue 92, September 2019 I was eaten by a sea dragon when I was twelve. It’s the only story my student seekers want to hear about. That, and why I live near the top of a mountain, where the skies rain down hot lava three hours out of each day, forcing…

  • What Every Thief Knows

    by Joette M. Rozanski in Issue 92, September 2019 Quality Likes to See You Grovel Digger told her to just pop the eater’s head off his shoulders, but of course she wouldn’t listen. Hesper was a fair-minded woman with morals, which would someday, Digger was fairly certain, become her fatal flaw. The eater, his dark…

  • Can’t Find My Way Home—A Review of ‘Weirdworld Volume 1: Where Lost Things Go’

    by Anthony Perconti in Issue 92, September 2019 ​2019As far as bad days go, high school senior Becca Rodriguez is having a pretty crap one. While en route to Mexico to inter her mother’s ashes, her flight takes a permanent detour. The passengers are pulled through a planar vortex into the realm known as Weirdworld.…

  • The Garnet Key

    by Jason Gallagher in Issue 91, August 2018 It was on Semid’s eighteenth birthday that his grandmother gave him the key. They were on the back patio. A wooden fence, turned a dull grey and warped with age, separated their little sanctuary from the other families crowded in the cluster of housing units. The high…

  • Still Ciela

    by Lynn Rushlau in Issue 91, August 2019 Groaning, I dropped the last of the boxes atop the stack in the alley and glanced at the sun. Winced and looked away, blinded. Nearly dusk. I needed to leave. The sun would drop under the horizon soon, and I knew better than to go out past…