My name is not Levi. I am not afraid. The machines that hover in swarms over the streets cannot read the thoughts inside my head.I am not running from them. I have nothing to hide. Citizens who have done nothing wrong have no reason to run or to hide from the machines.The New Dawn has […]
My lakeside graveyard’s all I got. I inherited it from my Pop, like he did from his Pop, and you get that old picture. I’m king here—ruling over my quiet darlings. And I wear all the crowns: sole proprietor, groundskeeper, gravedigger.Been digging graves since I was a kid. I’ve planted hundreds of folks.Just last month […]
A letter, marked in gold and copper. At the corners, I write my name in the spidery writing she knows to be mine. I dispatch it to the nearest cobweb and watch the babies eat it whole. And then I wait.The next morning, the woman called Mother is still alive.I watch her arms carefully during […]
We strapped the breathing jellies to our faces and walked into the thick soup of the sea, each step forward a slog until our legs breached the thinner water beneath. Above us, the flare clock tolled, so bright the seascape blanched translucent for a moment, so loud the water pulsed down to the sea floor, […]
What does it take to make a monster? The world is full of terrors: creatures that stalk and pounce and tear to pieces; perpetrators that prey on the weak and vulnerable; and all those other strange and unsettling things that lurk on the edge of our vision or whisper into our ears. Look back into […]