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 |
Selected Short Fiction
The Fortune of August Rind August Rind was put out to die three times in the service of finding fortune. Image Credit: Anonymous |
Down Among the Fireweed What mischief and what fairies come and play among the fireweed? Image Credit: Vasily Polenov |
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 |