Mewahi didn’t want to grow up. When the other girls came of age she saw them laugh and cry as they spun through the village, hair shorn from their heads [...]
Issue: June 2005
The Machine
My father used to peek into my room every night to make sure I was asleep. He never said a word; he just quietly watched my breathing. I would hear [...]
When a Man Loves Another Man
Warning: This article necessarily uses sexually explicit (and sometimes vulgar) terms which may not be appropriate for younger readers.
If there’s anything that can improve on the idea of a handsome [...]
English for Time Travelers, part 2: The Future
(”English for Time Travelers, part 1: The Past” can be found here.)
When writing past forms of English, you can (at least in theory) get everything right. There is no aspect of [...]
Five Reasons Not to Self-Publish
If you’re working on a novel, sooner or later someone will probably ask whether you’ve thought about self-publishing. Or maybe you’ll ask yourself: it’s tempting enough, when dealing with slow [...]
Generic Disenchantment
“Yes, I’d like to make a reservation for nine billion.”
“Reg?”
“Hold on, I’m working on something.” Whenever Reg was solving a deep problem as quickly as possible, his eyes closed, perhaps [...]