Author
Rachel Rodman
Cures for Hiccups
1.Breathe: In. Out. 2. Breathe backwards: Out. In. 3. Retrieve a loved one from the underworld. But this time: Don't look back. 4. Retrieve a loved one from the underworld. But this time, really--really, really--don't look back. 5. Don't look back! 6. Rip out your throat,…
For the War Effort
It was a civil war of the most bloody, brutal sort, not East vs. West, or brother vs. brother. But rather: Past vs. Future. They (the Future) had a staggering technological advantage. Our skies were filled with weapons that we did not understand; our cities pillaged and…
Six Nights, Six Monsters
1. "Brains!" he began--a low moan. "Brains!" "My name is Brianna," I corrected him. 2. We met in the glade, beneath the moonlight. Eyes, bright. Tongue, wet. "Sit," I said firmly. 3. "May I?" I asked, of his wrappings. "I'm sleeping," he said. And I felt the sting of it, his…
The Quantum Womb
The box was composed of flesh: living, human, maternal. And, inside the box, a scattering of molecular confetti, sourced from two parents, swirled and shimmered, collided and collaborated, in an innumerable array of unprecedented arrangements: every way, and no way. To create...…
Dorothy
It was a chaste courtship. Her lust was constrained by her conservative upbringing; his, by his lack of a central nervous system. Often, they simply talked. She chatted extensively about her life in the old world, before the tornado. She had loved, she said, her school and her…