The most dangerous creature in the universe is a mother who is battling for her baby’s survival. Annie Neugebauer’s story “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run” features two mother and child relationships, and both mothers will stop at nothing to ensure their babies are...
Take a walk down the streets of Philadelphia. You can take any path you choose. Wander the city in any order you choose. To be honest, your best bet is to follow your nose and eat where the locals eat. If you are very, very lucky, you might just happen to...
Be warned that there are multiple spoilers in this interview, so if you haven’t yet read PH Lee’s “Your Own Undoing,” I promise this interview will still be here, unchanged, when you get back. (That said, I can’t guarantee you won’t be changed when you come back.) ...
When Jason sent me this story, he said something along the lines of “this story will devastate you.” And he was right. The first time I read Fargo Tbakhi’s “Root Rot,” my emotions oscillated between awe, fear, concern, shame, disgust, hope, and then back...
I had to read Steven Barnes’s “Fugue State”—co-written with Tananarive Due—a few times to realize it was a dark horror story. On first blush, I thought this was a tragedy—a story about a woman whose once brilliant husband now suffers from dementia. If that was all the...
Although this is a story about how a passion for music can turn into a tool of defiance and resistance, I must bring to your attention an observation made by the titular Professor Strong: “Fragile species that they are, the humans are known to respond to a change in...
My first thought when I started reading this story was, Did Jason send me a non-fiction piece by accident? followed by, Did Jason send me a non-fiction piece on purpose? followed immediately by, Damn, this story pings everything for me. I was struck by the physical...
Books that whisper their stories to you, a man who loves books so much his hair has turned into hand-written pages, a vibrating city on the brink of collapse, and a conflicted woman who will do anything to keep her dying (dying … no … transforming) mother alive. And...
Imagine this, if you would: you’re designing a Generation Ship. The goal is to have living humans when the ship gets to wherever it is going. If knowledge is lost, if people don’t know how to fix things when they break—everyone dies. If the population is unbalanced,...
Adam Shannon is a graduate of Clarion West, and his work has appeared in Compelling Science Fiction, Every Day Fiction, the anthology Behind the Mask, and elsewhere. He and his wife live in Virginia, where they and their dogs welcome visiting foster dogs. Adam is a...
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