Fiction – Nebulous

Whatever Will Be, Will Be

by Isabelle B.L. Weeds shoot through concrete cracks. I yank them out of their foundations and run my finger across the bare wet soil. My finger fits perfectly between the walls of concrete. I get on my knees and tug and smooth. I do not need a crystalContinue reading “Whatever Will Be, Will Be”

Growth Spurt

by Cecilia Kennedy The pain in my back starts at my spine and radiates upward. Most of the time, I can ignore it, but sometimes, it’s too much. So I take one of the pills the doctor gave me and go to sleep, dreaming of the ocean andContinue reading “Growth Spurt”

In the Silver Light of a Star That Is No Star

by Daniel David Froid 1. From the Introduction At the same time that Ingeborg Nilsen labored over her magnum opus, A Metaphysics of the Unreal, she occupied herself, in secret, with two other projects: the construction of a secret language and a text composed in that artificial tongue. Continue reading “In the Silver Light of a Star That Is No Star”

Portal

By Jonel Abellanosa Darkness rims my room. I press eyelids close, pressure on eyeballs. Pendant of light flashes. Delight, my face numb. I think of electromagnetism. I think of pulse, vibrations, sound frequencies. Ear to please the heart. Light rings, orb of black, hollow, rimmed. Luminescent band pulls me through it into the other side, Continue reading “Portal”