The glade stretched out before me, bathed beneath a dappled azure sky. Flowers blossomed in the high grass, crimson poppies and sunshine flares of dandelions peering through thick tangles of green. The day was warm and the air was full of the scent of the forest, which waited, cloaked in shade, through a gap in…
Nomi knew she couldn’t eat her mother all by herself. But the idea of calling a reclamation team made a silent scream spiral out of her chest, infinite in every direction. So she sat in the corner, tucked against the bulkhead, and watched rigor mortis slowly settle the folds of her mother’s face. Nomi had…
The God the AIs built hovers in the sky like a second moon, the metal surface pitted with acid and roughed up with steel wool to mimic the unimaginable passage of time the AIs claim the God has existed, even though it only appeared last year. “God has always been there,” the AIs answer…
The hospital bed cradles my body like some pharaoh on display at The Honolulu Academy of Arts. My fingers tremble as I adjust midnight-blue candles. On an aluminum tray that’s bent where Cousin Kevin leaned on it, The Book of Tar lays above my heart, oozing black tendrils. Am I ready?Fuck, is anyone ever “ready”…
