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Content Note: graphic self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders Monday You read an article once that said suicides are higher in summer than winter. You weren’t trying to kill yourself, but you can understand why someone might. All the sun and fresh air and ice cream trucks slow-crawling through the neighborhood blasting circus music feels […]
I run my fingers down a carcass, the walls of my home. My thumb in between a dent in the skull we inhabit and my pinky reaching for this orbit of ours. Last night, the bone eating began. Worms biting mandíbula. Gnawing right next to my pillow. The beings sprouted from the ground like I […]
COME ONE, COME ALL! Charles Des Vœux’s Cabinet of Curiosities combined with the Most Spectacular Show in Greater Albion! All three rings, two menageries and seven monster shows under one unbroken stretch of purple and gold canvas! Behold the breathtaking complexity of New Machinery! Sample the Veritable Banquet laid out for all six of your […]
Content note: Child death It was half past midnight when Olga heard the Devil cry. They were supposed to be wild tonight, the three of them. Cassandra had led the way and Maria and Olga didn’t put up much of a fight. They would visit the Devil’s bridge—anything that claimed to be even remotely […]
When the Fae stole my wife, I followed them into the dark woods to win her back. Jess dropped breadcrumbs along the trail, except she had no bread, so she dropped other things instead. Not far from the house, I found a blue sweater, embroidered with gold bees, still smelling of the night we cooked […]
Stephani stands in the middle of the crowded mess hall and watches the projection. The screen shows the two main continents on Teridabe and the thin strip of land connecting them. On top of the map are three blinking green dots. Three living surveyors. One dot, labeled Mikhail, moves slowly upward to the ice […]
Content note: Hate crimes and animal death We stole the bottle of Elmer’s glue in the pass time between lunch and free period, the orange cap a beacon on the art room’s back shelves. Mrs. Chowdhury was out having her third baby in as many years, and the sub they’d hired to take her […]
A BRIEF HISTORICAL NOTE It will be evident quite quickly that this story, which takes place in an alternate universe, is based on the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. (If you are not familiar with this episode of early American history, I recommend Stacy Schiff’s The Witches as a lively and readable account.) Although I […]
Content note: sexual assault and child death. For woman wild with witch’s curse, Take husband’s hand and heed this verse. As man and child make mother whole, A wedded witch may save her soul. Ylva clutches the prayer to her chest. It is her most precious thing, a gift from her father on […]
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