An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

1. This process will make you marvel at your own longevity.

Something about the procedure, the magic, keeps me conscious as she cuts. The pain grips my throat, makes me want to throw up even as it pins me in place.

A sharp nose for amazing animal stories

The Sunday Morning Transport arrives in October with tricks and treats in the form of weekly stories by E.C. Myers, Emma Osborne, James K. Morrow, and Mur Lafferty

The Pour House Tavern is built on a stairway, with low ceilings that step down along with the bar, so it’s hard to see who’s at the other end, and the smoke gathers on the high side…

Congratulations on your Magic Sword"! For all inquiries as to its powers and perils, please consult the Virtue Exercises Manual". However, we know new users sometimes get in over their heads. That’s w...

Katarina, who had seen her share of premature deaths said, “Nonsense. I’m not a physician, I don’t cut live women open.” Still, death was coming for Vlasta, diving like a hawk on its dark wings. The b...

“My father forbid me to come to you, either with mushrooms or with the dog's collar,” Vanya told the dog witch. It had been early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For sava...

From across the darkened rooftop of the long-abandoned engine plant, Geli heard the unmistakable whirring of drone blades. Shit, she thought. Not here, too. She looked up from her work weeding the…

Afterwards, while the mother and baby slept or cooed at each other, Jesset was freed to the fresh air to deliver the grace-bread. Sister Grain baked two loaves after every birth. One for the church, t...

Jempo took a deep bow on the iron platform. His body flopped forward, limbs like thick braided wire. No obvious weapons in his large and rubbery hands. Little digital eyes and a bright smile that lit ...

Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...