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Content Note: drug use/addiction, suicidal ideation, internalized transphobia, an acute mental health crisis and in a strip mall parking lot off a side road in some Baltimore suburb my hand is trembling as I take the last of the voidwater in its little bootleg dropper and I peel my eyelid back and though I am […]
The following documents have been uncovered by the Bromley Independent with regards to recent events at the local cemetery: the unofficial statements of Mr. Cyril Harris, city councilman; the recently discovered journals of Miss Celia Smith; letters from Dr. Morgan Teale, Vicar; and Mrs. Elaine Ventri, deceased. Confidential account of Mr. Cyril Harris, to […]
I. It should be hard to feel lonely on a night full as this, where the moon sits low on the water—bright and insistent. But melancholy and self-pity are favorite friends and so, I manage it. Preoccupied with the salt spray, the crash of black waves, the way the change gathers at the back of […]
Content Note: death, car accidents, drug overdose, murder, internalized homophobia, mentions of gun violence I am simply not the kind of person who dies. Even before the Monarch told me the truth, I knew it the way animals know to burrow into the earth before landslides, the way they taste storms on the wind […]
Thuận Lộc stared at the cup. It was dark, and mottled with the characteristic patterning of silver-eye fungus. The tea inside was trembling—the faint vibrations from the Mausoleum, the dead ships’ atrophied motors that would never again allow them to hang, weightless, among the stars. Even now—even standing far away from it in that small […]
Theo is no exception. He’s doing his best to focus on blackjack, but his wife keeps wandering off. Dora’s not as strong as she used to be, and he needs to keep her away from the slot machines, where the light is perpetually fading and the floor slopes off to the DARK. Right now, it’s […]
“There would be no lynching if it did not start in a schoolroom. Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?” —Carter G. Woodson, 1933 “Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained.” —bell hooks, 1994 Alletheia was going to beat the ish outta him. Malcolm […]
My office used to be the supply closet; it’s how we got two rooms for the price of one. It means I get no air circulation whatsoever if I close the door, but keeping it open lets me hear everything from the moment anyone comes face-to-face with my receptionist. This guy demanded to speak with […]
He approached me first, but I wanted him to, and he knew it. I’d only been in town for a week, but it was a small town full of small people, and he was the most beautiful person I’d seen. The first time I noticed him, he was throwing one leg over a dirt bike, […]
Nuria heard about the construct from one of the local farmer’s sons just before midday. She had finished her second cup of sweet coffee with milk and was slowly coaxing a sickle blade out of a hunk of metal when Tomau charged into her smithy, breathless, as if he’d run all the way from his […]
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