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Shelter

Twilla’s Beast was hollow-bellied. The lumbering juggernaut, a comfy shelter custom-built for her. Light years away from home, they were fighting a war waged in outer space. An enemy warhead blew a gaping hole into the back of Beast’s head. The mecha was now a gnarled mess of scorched metal, …

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Space Age Mermaid

Sulily sleeps suspended inside a transparent, cylindrical womb filled with luminous blue fluid. Her suit sticks to her body like a second skin. Knobby nodes run up the length of her spine and end at the soft helmet’s base at the back of her neck. From the center of the …

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Stigmatic Young Gods

He’s a cliché. The all too solemn, emotionally vampiric type. He’s the guy burdened by the nose ring, the deviant sex habit, and the penchant for poisoning his patients. He’s the Dr. I-Know-Every-Thing who smirks at you across the parking lot and makes your skin crawl. So you scurry away …

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Witch and Spider

Whips of lightning cracked the dreary night’s fragile shell. The sea was a harridan, driving away what little warmth was left in the wind.  The beastly sky rumbled. The earth trembled. The explosive boom of a  starship taking off ripped a hole into the distant horizon. The earth had long …

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On This “Sad” Day in America’s History

Today, the Supreme Court gave misogynists and religious extremists full license to police women’s bodies by overturning the American woman’s constitutional right to prevent or terminate unwanted or unsafe pregnancies. The lives of countless women and other childbearing individuals are endangered by this decision to rob them of their access …

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Drosophila and the Beast by Bryce Baron-Sips

Drosophila and the Beast by Bryce Baron-Sips is the macabre tale of a student who lacks the gumption to kill a cringe-worthy lab specimen so she takes it home and makes a halfhearted attempt at keeping it as a pet. Published in the June 13, 2022 issue of Strange Horizons Magazine, Drosophila and the Beast Read more

Short Story Review: Drosophila and the Beast by Bryce Baron-Sips

Drosophila and the Beast by Bryce Baron-Sips is the macabre tale of a student who lacks the gumption to kill a cringe-worthy lab specimen so she takes it home and makes a halfhearted attempt at keeping it as a pet. Published in the June 13, 2022 issue of Strange Horizons …

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Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma by R.S.A. Garcia

Published in the January 2021 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine, R.S.A. Garcia’s compelling sequel to her story, The Sun From Both Sides is set in a distant, post-transhumanist future where every human in Eva’s culture is paired with an artificial intelligence that functions as their sibling and protector, from birth. Eva lives with her husband, Dee, Read more

Novella Review: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma by R.S.A. Garcia

Published in the January 2021 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine, R.S.A. Garcia’s compelling sequel to her story, The Sun From Both Sides is set in a distant, post-transhumanist future where every human in Eva’s culture is paired with an artificial intelligence that functions as their sibling and protector, from birth. Eva …

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A Brief Commentary on the Role LGBTQ Novels, Anime, and Manga Play in Inspiring Self Discovery

Reading Rubyfruit Jungle not only opened my eyes to a completely new world, but also made me acutely aware of the irrationality of the intolerance that runs rampant in Jamaican society.