Short Fiction Available Online
Cassia De Claire’s Revolving Cabinet Cards It would be trite and untrue to say I didn’t look like other women. But I felt as if I didn’t. Image Credit: Palloma Barreto |
The Crow Husband But in the stories the crows didn’t court; they stole. The crows charmed, tempted, took. Image Credit: Ohara Koson |
A Yellow Landscape I dream of vast landscapes. Image Credit: Kathryn Weaver |
The Day Beth Leather Shot the Moon, As Told by Rosemary Bonebreak When the moon came down, the salt flats went dark. Image Credit: Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert |
Down Among the Fireweed What mischief and what fairies come and play among the fireweed? Image Credit: Vasily Polenov |
Bone to Bleeding Bone When I was old enough to bleed, my step-sister pushed me out the window of a tall tower. Image Credit: Arthur Rackham |
Selected Short Fiction
Pearl Saudade & Hanna Ire Kiss the World Goodbye After watching atom bombs burst like dropped soda bottles and soldiers die across their love letters, Aphrodite and Ares gave up the game and went west. |
The Flamingo Aviary of Professor Ersilia It’s said I’ve not slept in my bed since the plague began, but instead wander the street like a ghost, stealing bottles of ambergris and mercury cream. Image Credit: Pieter Claesz |
Mirth, the Wasp, and the Sun In the wasps’ throats were all the songs of hither and yon, of Widders and Winds, and how to get there. Image Credit: Remedios Varo |
A Guidebook to Masca The curator of the Museum of Human Anatomy once asked, What is inside a body anyway? Image Credit: Ken E |
A Cabaret of Rosy Rot Will you let us in to drink your cocoa, admire your drawers of silver, and dance you across the stairs? Image Credit: Loie Fuller |