On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

by Elizabeth Twist The largest of the remaining church walls is a hunchbacked beast. It looms in the half-dark. Beyond it is open sky, and far below, the patchwork quilt of farms and bogs and the wor...

by Casey Flynn In two weeks I will find a stuffed unicorn under my daughter’s bed and when I pick it up it will tell me that in two years I’ll meet a woman at a writing conference who will say that t...

Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.

On mirrors, magic, and obsession