The first god tastes of cardamom and coriander. Its pungent skin is brittle and cracked and breaks like dry seaweed. The seven legs of its impressive mass bend and form great peaks and valleys. Bogs of noxious fumes bubble from its pores. Our programming tells us the god most closely resembles an arachnid to you Earth-raised beings. Imagine a black widow the size of a mountain range, but with skin like yours, tearing open like a burning house. Full of death, and therefore life, rotting and stinking with history.
Read MoreBlack Box of the Terraworms
He spoke once, the words whispered by frozen lips on a face so frostbitten he looked like a porcelain doll. I found him below the summit as our expedition bottlenecked before the Hillary Step on our final ascent of Mount Everest.
Read MoreThe Eight-Thousanders
Three men emerged from darkness and walked to the edge of the wood, the scent of roses rising all around them. The moon hung like a broken jaw above the Memphis night. The schoolyard lay ahead, its wood fence disjointed and leaning. The fetid scent of wet grass, of mold and moss, floated on the evening wind from the bayou.
Read MoreBarefoot and Midnight
Enjoy our audio presentation of "The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century" by A.C. Wise. Narrated by Alyson Grauer. Produced by KT Bryski.
Read MoreEpisode #75: The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century
“Think of Georges Méliès,” the old woman says. “Moon men appearing in puffs of smoke. Only these were like fairy tales, the old kind meant to assure the world that women were empty-headed, foolish, and vain. I’ll give Don Leaming this, he thought up dozens of clever ways to make us die.”
Read MoreThe Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century
Featuring original fiction by A.C. Wise, Sheree Renée Thomas, Sam J. Miller, Barton Aikman, Annie Neugebauer, and Sabrina Vourvoulias.
Read MoreIssue 122
Interactive Fiction — We know you have heard there is a fringeness to the food scene in Philadelphia. That you’ve come looking for the gut-kick of adrenaline, a taste of underground, and the possibility of enchantment that’ll make you forget you exist in Trump’s America.
Read MoreLas Girlfriends Guide to Subversive Eating
Issue 122 contains fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas, A.C. Wise, Annie Neugebauer, Barton Aikman, Sam J. Miller, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Jason Sanford, and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali.
Read MoreEditorial, Issue 122
Everyone else just stood there in their Sunday best looking on with their mouths open, their eyes wide. Some of the ladies hollered. One fainted dead away. Even the menfolk gasped and let loose an Oh Lord here and there.
Read MoreRoots on Ya