Author
Carlie St. George
Carlie St. George is a Clarion West graduate whose fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, The Book Smugglers, and Strange Horizons, among other magazines. She is very fond of overanalyzing pop culture tropes, writing in the 2nd person, and engaging in egregious amounts of snark. She engages in at least two of these activities with some regularity at her blog: MyGeekBlasphemy.com.
http://www.mygeekblasphemy.com/
An Ever After Diverged
I met you at the edge of the yellow woods, while you were speaking sweetly to the robins and squirrels. You weren't handsome, but your smile was kind, and kindness was a novelty so rarely encountered. My whole life I'd been seen as contagious, a bad luck seer who brought only…
Astronauts Can't Touch You
Your whole world is the hospital room. Everything else is light years away. New York City, for instance: sometimes it moves closer, sometimes further. On 9/11, it was in your backyard, but today, today, it's Pluto, an inconceivable distance of darkness and dying stars. Who cares…