FICTION | From the Tree
A porn search history and the secret lives of a suburban family.
FICTION | A Bed to Rule Them All
As my mind hazes, my last thought is of the Deep Sleep I will get with this bed and the new heights of success it will bring. Yes, I think, with this bed I will straddle the world.
FICTION | The Body Does Not Lie
A struggling writer gets more than he bargained for when he writes a beautiful girl into existence.
FICTION | The Feud
When an ordinary man criticizes a famous rapper’s latest album, the rapper sics his fans on him. Things escalate from there.
FICTION | Rapture of the Deep
My father warned me that the sea was beguiling, dangerous. The deeper you descend, the more the sea wants to pull you down and keep you.
FICTION | Hogwarts Is a Trade School!
I realized that Hogwarts is actually a trade school – a polytechnic! All we ever learned there was how to cast spells and brew potions.
FICTION | Honor
Tales grow in the telling, they say, and so they do, and yours most of all, a tale that has grown to become legend.
FICTION | Breaking You. Me.
It is midnight in Harajuku and the streets are still bustling. The boy meets the girl to get some crepes.
FICTION | The Tunnel
She was going to bring it in and get us all sick, and a quarantine with secret hook-ups is not a quarantine at all.
FICTION | BETA
“Are you alive?” he asks me. What is alive? I say. He can’t answer me.
FICTION | Hungry Ghosts
A Chinese-American in Paris realizes her ancestral beliefs have followed her there.
FICTION | Shadow Holds the Shape
A vampire and a ghost stalk the streets of Manhattan.
FICTION | The Foreigners
A poor, enterprising Chinese student sees a charitable American couple as an easy mark.
FICTION | The Banker & the Boatman
A rich banker (with an MBA) takes a ride with a poor boatman (without an MBA).
FICTION | The Doll
An overworked and underappreciated wife and mother creates a novel solution to her problems.