The time has come to move. The beasts swim through the deep together. They are always together, glutting themselves on the spray of food swirling throughout the eddied waters. [...]
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Blue Cherry Sky
Aki followed her sister onto the stage. In contrast to the sense of dread Aki felt, Harumi looked happy. Harumi was only nine years old, but she seemed unfazed by [...]
The Last Song
Haze rises like swamp gas in the capital, and Lupe can smell the exhaust swarming up around him from the traffic stalled on the Avenida La Reforma. The tourists are [...]
Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier
It was the first time I’d seen Buzz since they’d put the worms into Michaela’s ear. He looked even more like a junkyard, with rusty wires stitched into his face [...]
Wintertide Surprise
There wasn’t much to be done with it. It was supposed to arrive by five p.m. so Gary said, but here it be half past eight and every post office [...]
Redemption Tattoo
The door rattled violently on its hinges in the haste of Paul’s exit. As every head in the restaurant turned to stare, I found myself once again having to ask [...]
And the Raindrops—Its Tears
Long before her blindness, his mother, like all mothers, preached of the safety beneath umbrellas. Now the way she insisted on hers, though she could not see, reaching for it [...]
The Woodwife’s Song
It was a killing dream—spinning out around her, leaving her unable to wake. Her feet were rooted to the gray path, and there were blind things in the stagnant water. [...]
Dead Lovers
They say the worst thing you can do in a haunting is to acknowledge the presence of your ghost.
J– follows me around, I think, because he can. His eyes are [...]
The Naming at the Pool
Rhana was bathing in a pool deep within the forest, in the heavy shadows of the canopy, when she saw a man walk out from under the trees. He stared [...]
Farewell Summer: An Interview with Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury is perhaps the greatest living master of science fiction, with hundreds of short stories in print; his novels, including Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451 are taught in classrooms around the world. In this interview, the creator of The Martian Chronicles talks about his hopes for manned NASA missions, his reasons for writing, and his work with Ray Harryhausen, Katherine Hepburn, and John Huston.
What Uncle Howard Did
Uncle Howard didn’t even bother to hide the door in the cellar. I mean, how many visitors could he have had way up there in the hills, surrounded by No [...]
The Runner Who’ll Never Die: An Interview With William F. Nolan (part two)
[Return to The Runner Who'll Never Die: An Interview With William F. Nolan, part one]
William F. Nolan is so prolific that to try to list all his books, short stories, [...]
Chain Letter
All that morning and into the afternoon, Anne sat by the window in her apartment telling herself that this time she wouldn’t go back. She wouldn’t go to the house.
She’d [...]