There was a slim girl dancing behind his eyelids. She morphed and smiled, slipping into animation, now a fantasy, now a real person, she...

I see you there Jarnalis, I see the look in your eyes. You have come to the streets of Nishapur from Engeland, to the places where roads...

The android flicked a cigarette butt over the balcony and watched the ember flicker down down down, curling through the air like a spiral...

Four fingers. Four fingers silhouetted in the bright blue water, rising out of the pool like dinosaur bones. Above, a golden moon in a...

The seagulls floated like the tone of her parent’s voices, like they were playing dead in the sky. She had a terrible disease that had...

Along the banks of the river, at a small coffee shop called The Cherry Tree, with sprinklers in a flower garden making ghostly rainbows...

There was once a chip who lived in the shadow of a mountain. He was a wild potato chip who dreamed of being a tortilla but he was...

It was a dark time to be alive. There were political zealots everywhere. After the inauguration, I’d taken refuge in a doughnut shop with...

They came to a small shop in the desert, encased almost entirely in glass. It was mostly deserted, except for a few staff. African women,...

“Is he Stranger bait?” “Goodness no, that's Defoe Emelianenko.” “His time will come,” replied one rat to another, peering out from...

The first time a sausage fell out of his cabbage styled hair, he was confused. He was cautiously observing a goat in the undergrowth...

“Just glad to be here,” Harper said. Don’t think of all those things you feel. Just be glad to be here, he told himself, trickling warmth...

The centurion squinted through the battlements. The splinters in the rough stakes blurred in the foreground, and beyond that the vast...

The sand dune only materialized when he acknowledged it. Like that famous thought experiment where light was both a particle and a wave...