Category: June 2017

The bell rings harshly as I slide my back down the wall until I’m sitting stiffly on the floor of the grimy school hallway. I only got three hours of sleep last night, and my head feels like someone is trying to drive an ice pick through it. My peripheral vision is fuzzy in that … Continue reading Fairy Queen – Anonymous

The Importance of Plum Dresses Lennon said she would fill the vase herself. For her husband, Joseph, was preoccupied, sitting (as he always did with one leg crossed over the other) in his office chair, staring with a blank expression outside the window at nothing at all in particular. What a fool, thought Lennon, I … Continue reading The Importance of Plum Dresses – Isabella Auerbach

  In Your Eyes   Blue Ocean waves rolling, crashing, A sky full of hope and wonder. A marker gliding across the surface of a whiteboard. A hydrangea thriving in acidic soil that has Turned it to a symbol of summer, sun, and happiness. Blue.   Eyes that pierce the soul, Taking your breath away … Continue reading In Your Eyes – Anonymous

He was having one of those shit days. The general physical exertion had made him damp and slightly warm, and, as moisture collected in that most sacred of spaces between his thighs, he began to feel as though he was perpetually crapping himself. And, as the town clock made clear in its repeated insistences, he … Continue reading Lethal Innocence – Gethin Binns

June twenty-third.  Alan Turing’s birthday.  The day of the Global Conference of Artificial Intelligence Researchers. On June twenty-third, Sakura always sends me a message.  Saku’s perhaps the most technologically-oriented person I know, but for some reason she never sends a normal vmail or a holovid.  Consistently, seven years and counting, she sends me an actual … Continue reading London Sniper – Jonathan Lee