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The Spare Child, K. Noel Moore
“She agreed to be the little ghost’s mother, just for one night.”
Drawing an Eyebrow, Ali A. Ünal
“I demonstrated with arrows and speech bubbles that mechanical engineers built things in a world that was being destroyed constantly by itself. We were walking paradoxes.”
In the lands of landfill lords, Namit V. Shah
“The landfill lords, / a hundred half living / dead dreaming skeletons, / churn and churn”
Amid the Frolicking Penguins, Robert Garnham
“I suspect it was only on the third week of the expedition that I began to have my suspicions that the refrigerator was actually my old friend Pat.”
The Yellowbird House, James Donlon
“When the Lord first appeared to me, he was in a blue mechanic’s coverall with a rifle on his shoulder.”
Magic Wand, Nick Olson
“I’m watching my brother live out a parallel life beside me. Two lines headed in the same direction but which can never intersect. I want to tell my therapist, but I don’t. It’s not a delusion if you know it’s not real. If it’s just that you want it to be real.”