Mina couldn't even afford a subscription to the beat. The most basic, primal element of a song, and here she was, dry, walking through the central plaza as Delta sang at its center, a far-off kaleidoscope. The only sound Mina could hear came from the mass of bodies all around, churning with music too expensive for the likes of her. 

Released: March 20th, 2026

The glide scene was subtle at first. Like most things that grow. The crowds were small, the music just starting to shrub up from the asphalt.

Released: January 15th, 2026

Shara never believed in the gods of her grandparents, and this new one seemed even more unlikely. But the Roamers of Tala had answers to explain what happened to wayfarers. The sibyl said that Shara visited a world where life had sped up and shot outward like the earthen blast from a lightning strike. And that lightning had been harnessed in the same way as water in their own world, and there were wheels to run it through its courses inside ships that fly and poke holes through the firmament to land wherever and whenever they want, and she said that somehow Shara was blessed, allowed to visit that impossible new world. A storm paw knot was all she’d needed.

Released: January 15th, 2022

New Year Bonus!

Originally published in Raleigh Review and Winner of Best of the Net.

Leary’s high already. “I’m writing something,” he says to me.

“You write?”

“Not yet. Anyway, tell me what you think. Ok, so there’s this guy. He’s a low-level fellow for a company, bottom of the barrel, right. You like sci-fi?”

“Sure,” I say.

“Good. So this fellow’s bad-off looking, real pale. He’s always tired, and skinny as hell. Guess why.”

Released: January 25th, 2022

It always starts the same: a gasp and then memories. A life he hasn’t lived but now, suddenly, has. There is confusion, yes, often, but also exhilaration, as though he has suddenly recollected something he has long sought to recall. It is a life’s worth of recollections, a life’s worth of pleasures and pains and novelty. Is Emïel a little addicted to traveling between worlds? Yes, perhaps he is.

Released: March 15th, 2022