Category: Reprint Fiction
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How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga
By: S.M. Hallow (1300 words) 1. Don’t ask if the pot roast is made from human meat. 2. Human meat is an acquired taste. Acquire it. 3. Collect the eggs the house lays.
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The Selkie of the City Tells All
By: J.D. Scott (1000 words) We meet at the Mermaid Parade on Coney Island three years in a row. We meet on a rooftop on the Fourth of July, the air smoky with bodega-bought salutes. We meet on a broken-down B3 bus on Avenue U.
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Vampirito
By: K. Victoria Hernandez (3900 words) Everybody knows that a true vampire, though possessed of many traits, is critically defined by three: Is afraid of the sun. Has really, really long fangs. Thirsts for human blood. Eli was a true—one hundred percent, without a doubt—vampire, and had none of the traits above.
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Sharp Undoing
By: Natasha King (3780 words) Sure enough we could not outrun the hoverbikes. Understandable—yes? Yes. We were a new thing, a sharp thing; not a fast thing. So we stood and panted, and the bikes idled a few handsbreadths above the rain-slick tarmac.
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Contact Light
By: Sofia Samatar (3300 words) After the fight my leg was raw, torn open from knee to ankle, slick with antibiotic membrane from the infirmary. The moonscape lay bald as an eye.
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can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time
By: Iori Kusano (3000 words) Matt tells the waiter he’ll have his eggs over easy. They come back scrambled, a neat glistening pile framed by perfect triangles of toast, a lacy froth of hashbrowns lurking across the plate.