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ByAndrea Johnson

Interview with Author Travis Heermann

An interview with our cover artist.

ByTravis Heermann

Screaming Without a Mouth

You asked me to tell you what happened so here goes. I’m going to write it in this notebook. I hope you can read my handwriting, my hands are shaking so bad. I need to be thorough. I have to tell you everything.

ByLavie Tidhar

Agent of V.A.L.I.S.

A thing that wore Johnny Carson’s face came over, light on its feet. “Tonight I’m delighted to say we have the famous Agent Dydimus with us!” he said. The audience applauded. It was the same people from the courthouse, the same people, he realised, who had gathered to listen to him up by the old church.

ByJason Sizemore

Words from the Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to issue 82!

ByAlex Livingston

Glitch Rain (Excerpt)

Akuba needs to get rid of her client’s face if she plans on living past the week.

ByNick Mamatas

On the Occasion of My Retirement

People like a professor with a television. It humanizes us. More than once, a girlfriend let me know that she, like the professors she admired, never ever watched television, only to sit down in front of it and fall into a teletrance.

ByChris Bucholz

Severance (Excerpt)

Designed for maintenance robots, utility crawlspaces could theoretically accommodate human-sized travelers—the theory essentially being: “but they really have to want to be there.” The number of scrapes, abrasions and calluses on Stein’s hands and knees attested to the number of times she’d really wanted to be in such places. Typically for work-related reasons, but she wasn’t working tonight. Stein was one of the enviable few Argosians whose profession—ship’s maintenance—overlapped significantly with her hobby—light burglary.

ByBetsy Phillips

a digital image of a number of letters and numbers.

The Four Gardens of Fate

When you ask most psychics why they don’t just learn the lottery numbers and play them ahead of time, they’re going to tell you that’s not how it works. You can’t just get the numbers.

ByRussell Dickerson

Interview with Cover Artist David Demaret

An interview with our cover artist.