Remember the recharge time. A minute and one. A lot can happen in that time. Microjumps, they say. Alternate realities at the speed of what-if. The velocity of wondering. All I must do is make...

We'll study the conventions of the gothic story, look at modern ghost stories by writers like Brian Evenson and Carmen Maria Machado and others.

Ten stories picked by Elena Zhang

The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.  It was our thing; sitting and watching the clouds build, eating fast-melting popsicles a...

Jane’s words felt shy, and yet she wanted to introduce herself to the new neighbor. He appeared unassuming with dark glasses and a pink bald head. She wondered, for a second, if he was an app…

“I think there’s something moving down there” You couldn’t tell there were three of them at first, not until they had almost cleared the courthouse and started towards the post office. The first o...

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I’d never heard the phrase before—nostalgia tour—but I knew what he meant. I’d been on a few myself.

Reggie got so high, she couldn’t remember where she’d put her keys. She’d left the meeting with the studio execs, one of them offering her blow in the men’s restroom but where were her keys? She’d…

ALT: Robin Williams as Mrs Doubtfire: Tongue Out

Keanu Reeves is set to star in and produce 'Kill Current,' a thriller marking the first project to emerge from his new label Two Dragonflies.

The daughter is tired of walking, the muscles in her thighs and calves trembling as they climb, but there’s no chance of the father turning around until he’s seen everything he came to see. The forest...

Shirley Jackson nominated author Joe Koch's Dead Boys Don't Cry is a queer cosmic-erotic slasher and anti-murder mystery about disaster gay Chris Fournier, who has one big problem: He can't stop getti...

It’s silly but I think it’s important we make up lore for our own lives. Our own mythologies, folk tales, origin stories, what have you. If you don’t romanticize your own life, who the hell will?…