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Liberty
She did not want anyone to know how she liked to stand in the bathroom, before stepping into the tub, to admire the new muscles in her arms ...
The Patriarch Strokes a White Cat (Or How to Defeat Fascism)
You draw colored circles on my back in front of a fire that might have burned for centuries. Continue Reading The Patriarch Strokes a White Cat ...
AuPair
Some of my friends say things like, “Doesn’t it bother you that she’s always listening?” Continue Reading AuPair
I’m not Selling
I come to the Hinterlands with knowledge of the future so I know the Roman Republic wins. I watch Venus de Milo’s fruitless attempts, then slip into a winery. ...
Dreams are Contagious
“That’s the fifth one this week,” I told Zuzanna from the other room. “They are all having dreams about Donald Trump. Continue Reading Dreams are Contagious
Slideshow
The other side of the pane, a silhouetted woman walked in the direction of blackened smokestacks. Continue Reading Slideshow
Company Party
It’s the annual company party, and the CEO is going on and on about what a great year it was for the whole urban revitalization industry, Continue Reading ...
Human
Leaving refugees buried in its path beneath crumbling buildings. A higher population death rate in its wake. The fighting carved scars out of the landscape and tore away innocent citizens. ...
Lune
To me, it’s a Rorschach test I’ve failed, but my son sees the man immediately. Continue Reading Lune
Controlling the Means of Production
If this superlative gastronomic experience is the result of a meal-prepping AI unobtrusively pulling dining data from my infome, I can’t complain. Far from it. My compliments to the data-harvesting ...
Burial
Whatever he’s doing, the lake witnessed. Whatever he’s doing, my body sucked it up inside of me, Continue Reading Burial
Monstrosity
If women ruled the world, I thought, no such behemoth would have been constructed Continue Reading Monstrosity
An Incident
You didn’t want to write for him, but the call came one day and within an hour there was the black sedan outside the faculty window Continue Reading ...
Scourings
We had lost all sense of time and cared only for distance: how far we had come from the East and how far until we reached the utmost West, an ...
The Kirby
No obligation to buy was right up Pop’s alley. He filled out the application, even crossed himself before he signed. Continue Reading The Kirby
Do you love me?
Ben just called me through a third party and asked if I was still his girlfriend and I hung up. I wish I had let him put the xanax in ...
Playing By Ear
Soon Mother starts insisting that a tiny fairy lodges there in her middle ear, alongside the implant, whispering to her in schoolgirl French. Continue Reading Playing By Ear
ADAM & EVE ON A RAFT
Whoever-He-Was crouched on all fours and pressed his nose into the back of her knee. “You smell like childhood,” he said. “Mine or yours?” she replied. She stopped laughing ...
Please Confirm You Are Not in Beast Mode|Litro Lab|Podcast
In this week’s podcast, A.N.Brassky reads “Please Confirm You Are Not in Beast Mode”, a psychological science fiction where Chris the protagonist is driven to insanity by tormenting Dwarves. ...
The Hunter
Unconsciously, she touched the healed bone beneath her left eye and remembered the fight they’d had about the lions. Continue Reading The Hunter