Author

John Wiswell

John Wiswell is an author living where New York keeps all its trees. His body has been racked by lung problems and a neuromuscular syndrome since he was thirteen, and he finds the complaints of healthy people very funny. His fiction has appeared at (or is forthcoming at) Podcastle, Fireside Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online.

You Can Adapt to Anything

They are one of a kind, both of them. Both want to build the future, attend MIT for the resources and connections. While other people date, they Skype with engineers at the LHC. Afterward people say they're glowing like they've screwed all night. "Multiverse Theory is like…

Where I'm From, We Eat Our Parents

His name is not "Fiend." His people don't have proper mouths, and so anytime Clarissa says his name it sounds wrong. Human mouths make it sounds like "Fiend." The homonym is unseemly, but he puts up with it for her. He'll put up with anything for Clarissa. "They'll adore you,…

The Terrible

The Terrible installed a conveyor belt exclusively for her. It carried Invulnerabella along, wriggling helplessly toward the metalworks's blazing furnace, her sinewy arms bulging against carbon-titanium cables. Her curse stole her strength whenever she was bound; the material…