In the last city on Earth, a demoted geneticist plays chess with the talking cat who was once her lover and once tried to end the human race.
Three voices, one bookshelf — fiction and reflection in about twenty minutes.
Category: Short Stories
Zip-tied in a motel by a strung-out captor, a man who makes others feel what he feels tells the story of his life to buy one more hour before death.
Freezing through a lonely winter retreat, a nun is visited by three long-dead masters who strip away her illusions. A reverent, hypnotic tale of awakening.
High on a sacred mountain, an aging nun endures a year-long retreat as the ghosts of dead masters arrive to test whether she can face her own lies.
An undercover agent posing as a junkie hunts a ghost through 1990s New York on guitar alone — never knowing the woman sheltering him already knows it all.
A lonely immortal woman walks into the clone barracks, finds the city’s soldiers plotting a strike, and hands them a history lesson and a list of demands.
In Earth’s last all-women city, a weary president fights a zealot’s book ban — then a rumor that the printers are growing men hints nature is rewriting us.
An undercover cop hides in a 1990s men’s shelter, smoking the role too well, while a card game and its players slide toward a riot he can’t stop.
A nun who roams the astral plane is courted by three demon seductresses and a love she can’t have, and must decide if desire is a trap or a path.
A nun with blood on her hands and a novice who senses every lie circle a confession and a love their vows forbid. A lush, queer historical tale of grace.
A 1995 field report: an undercover cop embeds with Lower East Side squatters, hunts a street prophet, and watches a doomed household near a gunshot.
The most feared woman in the last city keeps an alligator and a stolen clone soldier, and falls for a killing machine who seems to be learning how to feel.
A bored immortal president half-listens as a doomed citizen begs to escape the gang lord who feeds her enemies to an alligator — then leaves to chase the sun.
A street bookseller is told to move, and he’s complying — when a dozen officers turn one polite request into something that scars him for life.