The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 1
I. Loneliness is quite possibly the worst emotion we can experience, especially if it becomes habitual. This is all the more true if our loneliness…
When the Black Body Met the Alt-Right Hero
The Black Body lived in an American city; he had a name. What was his name? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that he read Ta-Nehisi Coates. That…
Not Actually a Lizard
When the call came through, Officer Lawrence laughed. He had to, because it was probably the most bizarre call that had come through in his twenty…
Uchinoura, Part 2
XI. Short beeps in the tube interrupted the commander's swearing. A few minutes later, the colonel was already in the headquarters, and after some…
Chasing a Coloured Phantom
It began thus four years ago when I answered an advertisement in a personals section of a classified website. The author sought conversation and…
Progress, Part 2
IV. You are 17 years old. You are just under six feet tall, well-muscled from years of exertion, not as heavyset as the older men but lean, with…
Saxum Tarpeium
Officer Collins sucks down the last puff of his cigarette thinking, It’s going to be another long-ass night. At least I’m not on patrol anymore. He…
Pleasure Nova Theater
Abdul Rodrigo-Schwartz woke up at noon, as usual, and struggled to roll his sloppy mass out of bed. He worked from home as a freelancer writing fake…
But a True Dream
Between astrological movements and our stomach contents, the worldly accounting for dreams takes in a wide posture of figures. There is a second…
A Few Questions
Nearly halfway up the stairs, Ben Turcotte heard the front doorbell. It being Saturday, he assumed it was one of the neighborhood children…
