Author
Nathaniel Lee
Nathaniel Lee's fiction has appeared in dozens of venues around the web, including Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He also serves as the Assistant Editor of Escape Pod, the premier science fiction podcast, and Managing Editor at the Drabblecast, the premier... Drabblecast. He lives resentfully in North Carolina and dreams of snow.
Toadwords
They said they'd driven her out of the village and into the woods, and that wasn't a lie. But she found that she preferred the woods. Things were easier out there. A curse means less when you're alone. And her toads could roam where they liked. Not that they often did. Toads…
The Strongest Man in the World
The strongest man in the world is trapped inside the closet. The doorknob rattles and shakes, but I have placed a chair beneath it, angled like so, and the rug has kinked beneath it and it will not move. That is how you do trapping people in closets. I know the trick, and I have…