By Gray Winsler Art by Moon_Patrol Published Issue 104, August 2022 You wake up on a jungle floor, swallowed by a canopy of leaves. Vines constrict like a boa around you as you push yourself to your feet. Your heart thuds as you tear the vines from your skin, hands slick with sweat. You look […]
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The Eagle Hunter By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 103, July 2022 When Aldiyar finally turned the corner down the high path, his golden triumph turned to lead and sunk a fist in his belly. Forgotten was the fox tied to his saddle, forgotten the story of his eagle’s prowess; for just
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No Escape From the Storm By Joel Tagert Art by Caitlyn Grabenstein Published Issue 102, June 2022 The storm kept coming. The first time Kadi and Aliya were in the drive-thru of a Burger King in Fruita, Colorado. Kadi was behind the wheel of her car, a 2003 Ford Taurus she’d bought for eleven hundred
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By Gray Winsler Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 102, June 2022 George’s mower hummed across the Sky Line — an elevated park once known as the High Line, but rebranded in the 2040s when it was expanded over all four boroughs (Staten Island having been sold off to New Jersey, a change few New
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The Shadow Walker By Gray Winsler Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 101, May 2022 The Shadow Walker By Gray Winsler KIR12’s limbs itched with rust, the last droplets of rain pattering off its metal plating. It cursed the wetness of this planet, its limbs needing to be interchanged weekly, always keeping the Red Death
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Filthy Animals By Joel Tagert Art by Nick Flook Published Issue 101, May 2022 You have to let me go. Don’t be stupid. Me and this suit weigh a hundred kilos easy. You don’t remotely have the strength to pull me out. Work with me here. Listen! Let me go, climb back to solid ground
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The Odlegs of Oodlegoose By Gray Winsler Art by Caitlyn Grabenstein Published Issue 0100, April 2022 Depending on who you ask, the Earthen “cat” could be described as a cuddly floofball that lounges exclusively on laptop keyboards, OR as one of the deadliest hunters on Earth, killing over a billion small mammals each year. Their
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King Sargasso By Joel Tagert Art by Moon Patrol Published Issue 0100, April 2022 Elizabeth Cartwright was famous enough that she knew to wear a wide-brimmed straw hat tied below her chin with a black ribbon, like a nun’s wimple, when she went out boating; not because it would stop the paparazzi from taking photos,
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Published Issue 099, March 2022 “Get back here, El!” Her father’s words are distant, subdued by the ringing in her ears, by the patter of her sneakers pounding into the pavement. Ringo senses her approach by her keys, pushes its door open for Ellie. She slips inside, the door automatically locking shut behind her. Her
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The Bones of the Earth By Joel Tagert Art by Peter Kornowski Published Issue 099, March 2022 Even among his own people, Lhakpa Tshering was known as a great sojourner and famous guide. This reputation was the natural result of summiting the murderous peaks of Kanchenjunga, Nanga Parbat and many others, but he had also
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