Hopeful Science Fiction. The Last Performance At sixty-eight, Elian Vey had forgotten how to enter a room, though he had never forgotten how to leave one. He had walked off three sets and two openings, and every one of those doors had been for him to go out of. The rain came...
Surrealism. The Whale Behind the Lighthouse Mara arrived on a bus that had lost its route. The destination board over the driver’s shoulder read 14, and the 14 had been written over so many times the numerals had gone soft as chalk. When the vehicle stopped on a road narrower...
Hopeful Science Fiction. The Patient at the End of the World Dr. Iona Vale kept the lighthouse on the whale’s back, though neither the lighthouse nor the whale could be called still. The whale slept beneath the sea, a vast iron body carrying a tower of green glass. At night,...
Weird Fiction. The Book That Would Not Stay Inside The lighthouse stood on the back of a mechanical whale, its lantern burning saffron yellow through smoke-grey air. The whale lay belly-down in the sea, enormous ribs rising beneath the copper roof like the hull of a ship sunk in...
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