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When you mine comedy for an elusive and dangerous truth, you take the risk of bombing. Hard. Science fiction for a Friday.
Short FictionA collection of 10 posts
Jolly Saint Nick Is Dead, Alas
A clatter on the rooftop may not bring glad tidings to the ones on Santa’s naughty list. This yuletide potboiler puts the sour in sugar plum candy and the bitter in hot buttered rum.
Seat 42E: Last
When a documentary filmmaker finds herself propelled twenty years into the future, will she discover a world better or worse than the one she left behind?
From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left
In an alternate America eerily like our own, a boys’ choir’s performance at the Inauguration portends a fascist future. Fiction for Election Day.
The Visitors at Wriggly Field
The Cubs in the World Series? In 2012 this can only mean something nefarious is afoot. Will Ferdinand “Bull” Schmidt make it to the men’s room in time to save the day?
Bondage Bunny and the Clothes Dryer of Doom
An intrepid plush rabbit in search of illicit thrills finds their entire world turned upside down and sideways. A story in 23 photographs.