With a title like that, I was expecting a Hitch-Hiker’s Guide pastiche, something quirky and funny and irreverent. That is not what I got. What I got instead was an all too familiar experienc…

Astrolabe is a literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

Children here sometimes age in reverse. I once saw a toddler fold into an old man between triage and discharge.

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We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…

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This time, we have lunch in Menlo Park, we chase after the morning Caltrain and make it by the last second, and we end up all the way in San Francisco where the sunshine’s the same but the wind feels ...

There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.

A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.

You could have put in an escalator. Or better yet, you could have invented an elevator. That would have been Exceptional.

There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.

A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

We grab coffee. She’s a physicist. Light is a particle, etching our each encounter on speckled film.

A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

We grab coffee. She’s a physicist. Light is a particle, etching our each encounter on speckled film.