Riley Tao shares a humorous piece of speculative fiction on the workplace discrimination experienced by transdimensional entities on a distant universal plane.
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The Law Mine
The latest in fiction: Max Rachimburg shares “The Law Mine,” a parable about the prevailing order. Is the law objective, divine, derived from nature? Or is it something we make?
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Lucy Zhang’s “Outgrowth” is a surrealist fable, exploring themes of the biological, the body, consumption, and human bonding.
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Carl Harris writes with a piece of surrealist fiction about the townspeople that confront a new reality: a city in the sky, populated by an angel named Matt.
Read MoreChildren of the Nkalagu Mine
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, in “Children of the Nkalagu Mine,” visits a beautiful world in which the dream of African liberation—peace, environmental justice, and genuine democracy—has been realized.
Read MoreThe Origins of Cling Wrap
by ish ibrahim. See Kyoko now, on a white roof with white plaster, pipes like candy canes jutting out, sealed at their base with white plaster. See the pipes spewing mysterious white smoke. There is a blue sky with occasional white clouds.
Read MoreRemediation
by Whitney Curry Wimbish. Connie practiced her gratitude meditation as she drove home. If she listed everything to be grateful for, she would see how rich she really was, and she would get happier and happier. She tried to think of every single thing, right down to the fact of her existence. To life itself!
Read MoreThe End of a World
by Isaac Black. I reached for my phone before I opened my eyes, a motion that had become automatic. It felt something like morning, and my awful, little screen confirmed.
Read MoreRecyclables
Eric Williams “I probably should make a pilgrimage,” I answered. “He’s reckoned the best poet here.” “Best poet in Aznar Station?” Röntgen laughed and drained his coffee. “Well, I can arrange that too.” We strolled to the already bustling Plaza de los Pájaros. A long line had formed for the Axial. The cylindrical station mimicked…
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by Lyta Gold. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it,” the menu promises. TAROT is a trendy place, far too trendy for her, and it serves pomegranate tacos and goose egg omelets and “magic beans,” which are lentils.
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