Author
Cheryl Wood Ruggiero
Cheryl Wood Ruggiero's speculative work has appeared in Abyss & Apex, AnotheRealm, Bewildering Stories, Goblin Fruit, Luna Station Quarterly, Mirror Dance, Neo-Opsis, Shelter of Daylight, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye, among others. She lives, writes, and teaches in the mountains of southwestern Virginia.
Will It Fly?
--Will it fly? What do you think, Yammet? --Well, Sis, the lifthold is full of wist, so at least it will rise. --You mean wish, right? --No. Wist. Not wish. Wish was enough for the 1/27 scale prototype, but for the real thing you need wist--the stuff of knew, as in the old "wist…
Venus at the Streetlight Lounge
Stalker feels the leers of wall-leaning pool-players slide along her spandex dress--she's worth gazes, even though she gilds her hair to hide sneaking gray. She breathes alcohol-and-hormone haze. Ah--her prey are at the bar, his buzz-cut gray head nuzzling her sleek neck, her…