The best geneticist on Earth keeps a cat that talks, plays chess, and is not exactly a pet. Ask the science floor. Watch them change the subject. 15 min.
Three voices, one bookshelf — fiction and reflection in about twenty minutes.
Tag: short stories
Three people in a single motel room on the west side. Two of them are tied up. The one they say is running things is the one on the bed. A 20-minute read.
The most important teaching of her life, delivered once, with no notes and no second chance. She is freezing to death at the time. A free 20-minute read.
Never meet your heroes. Twelve weeks into a year alone on a mountain, a dead saint turns up in her tent and will not admit she exists. A 15-minute read.
A man is on a woman’s couch in Chelsea. She works a corner to keep them both high. He sits in the chair and plays a guitar that he did not buy.
They say the police in the last city walked off the job. Every grievance in the world, no plan, and nobody writing it down. A free 15-minute read.
There are eighty million women in the last city and no men at all. A priestess says she saw something the body printers stopped making. 7-minute read.
There’s been a disturbance at the men’s shelter. A resident bit a guard’s hand. Two guards responded, looked around, and declined the paperwork.
A nun who can stay awake inside her own dreams gets adopted by three demons with excellent taste. Everyone has a feed they cannot put down. 15-minute read.
She is in love with a woman who can feel a lie the instant it is spoken. She has been lying to her since the day they met. A free 20-minute short story.
An undercover officer has moved into a squat on Avenue A. He is not there for the drugs. He is there for a man who has never been charged with anything.
They say she keeps a thirteen-foot alligator. They say she stole a soldier off the authority. Nobody can explain the cookies. A free 10-minute read.
She complained to the president about her neighbor’s pet. On camera. Out loud. Her neighbor is the Wild Woman of the Rim. A free 6-minute story.
Police shut down the weekend market. About a dozen officers attended; two or three is normal. The bookseller is named as having refused a lawful order.