short story
Lord Serpent
by Mary Soon Lee
The fourth demon took the form of a giant serpent, two hundred feet long and as wide in girth as a wagon.
Jan 17, 2019 | essay
Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses
by Layla Al-Bedawi
The German word for language is Sprache. Lose a bit of it and it becomes Rache, which means revenge. Lose just a little more and you’re left with ache.
short story
Ten Utterances of the Vampire Word
by George Lockett
She turns to see two fearful, bloodshot eyes. They’re gone before she can speak. A cockroach itch wriggles under her tongue.
short story
Beyond Comprehension
by Russell Nichols
He’d seen the ads: Happy kids with their headsets, uploading book after book from the VR library to their brains. Instantly. Click and done.
Dec 27, 2018 | news
Year’s End, 2018
by Pablo Defendini
It’s the end of the year — time to take stock of everything we've done in 2018.
short story
Tablecloth
by Kathryn Kania
She does not own a cat. She has never even seen a cat near her building. But still, there it is, curled up into an almost perfect circle of black.
Dec 20, 2018 | essay
You Wake Up Monstrous
by Fran Wilde
Body horror perpetuates the fear of, the isolation of, the disabled — by rendering disability something that happens on a screen, to a secondary character.
Dec 19, 2018 | news
On Beautiful Words
by Pablo Defendini
One of the things we started doing this year at Fireside is expanding the format and presentation of some of our stories. Here's how some of those came about.
short story
Choose Wisely
by Fran Wilde
The child is already at school, and didn’t forget her wand this time, so this is the perfect moment for dealing with the paperwork that sometimes comes with your latest medical adventure…
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