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SPRING 2025

Animus
​by Brian Kirk

After her mother’s death, a woman stays behind in the family home, haunted by memories and the nightly appearance of two foxes. As grief blurs the lines between past and present, human and animal, she must confront old wounds and choose whether to carry them forward or finally let them go.  
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Fox at night

SPRING 2025

Green Orion Slave Girls
​by Bill Suboski

At sci-fi conventions, they dazzle as the Green Orion Slave Girls—graceful, hypnotic, unreal. But this is no pretence. They're dryads, summoned by an ancient charm rooted in an old orchard. The forest is their truth. How far would you go to protect the spell?
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Tytti Heikkinen, Things That Fly
Tytti Heikkinen, Things That Fly, 2024

FALL 2024

Microchipped
​by Sam Rappaport

A subservient content writer agrees to get a microchip implant at the behest of his boss, but how will things unfold as we follow him through this transhumanist experiment?
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Photo by Jan van der Wolf
Photograph by Jan van der Wolf

SPRING 2024

My Friend, Hamlet
​by Jennifer McCormack

​"What’s a lone jar of vitamins got to say to existential dread? Here’s what I would say. The sky is also around our feet. We prefer to think of it as above our heads [...]"
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Paul Cézanne, Pyramid of Skulls, 1901
Paul Cézanne, Pyramid of Skulls, 1901

SPRING 2024

Elevator Music
by Dimitris Passas

A solitary elevator trip leads a man to self-understanding as he finds himself reflecting on his social persona minutes away from a life-changing encounter.
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René Magritte, Golconda, 1953
René Magritte, Golconda (1953)

SPRING 2023

Anoptics
​by Shifra Steinberg

​A small-town optician becomes entirely absorbed in his latest vision-altering creation, which leads him to question the very existence of objective reality.
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Somewhere in the Multiverse, by Shifra Steinberg (2019)

FALL 2022

Children of the Sun
​by Drew Townsend

A mysterious group of children left to fend for themselves find shelter in the dark of the arcade, leaving the rest of town to speculate about them.
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Paul Klee, Miraculous Landing, 1920
The Sun, Edvard Munch (1909)
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