flash fiction

STET

by Sarah Gailey

Read: ‘Murder’. It was murder, the car had a choice, you can’t choose to kill someone and call it manslaughter.

short story

Light and Death on the Indian Battle Station

by Keyan Bowes

Mom’s turquoise-blue saree morphed into her silver Battle Station uniform. … She’d be needed in the Situation Room with all the other Telepaths.

short story

Inner Space

by Takim Williams

Dr. Williams has retreated to his inner space, where he has spent increasingly more time since his wife’s death in the office fire a year ago.

flash fiction

The Ceremony

by Mari Ness

He is not exactly dead, of course—indeed, those who do touch him often say, later, that he's rather unpleasantly warm.

flash fiction

How to Identify an Alien Shark

by Beth Goder

If a shark is speaking to you, that is a sign that it is an alien.

flash fiction

Friday Night Games

by Anne Dafeta

Ouija was not a game she ever expected to find in Lagos. Back in New York? Of course. … But Ouija, in a Nigerian store?