The Footprint’s Story
ONCE THERE WAS A PRINCE in want of a wife. The prince met a lady with gold hair, and he kissed her in front of video cameras. He took her to Continue reading
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The Metamorphosis of Marie Martin
Orion Magazine · The Metamorphosis Of Marie Martin This story won 2022’s Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors climate-fiction contest from Fix, Grist’s solutions lab. Imagine 2200 asked writers to Continue reading
The Seduction of Speculation
Speculative fiction is an unfixed term for a genre broad enough to encompass the work of Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Octavia Butler, and Jorge Luis Borges. Readers and Continue reading
The Mongerji Letters
Since the collapse of one of the last dynasties of the common era and the subsequent end of the era itself, historians have searched for descendants of the Mongerji family, as well as descendants of the scribes who, under their employ, collected samplings of flora and fauna from around the world. The only evidence discovered thus far are the letters that follow. Continue reading