Original works of weird fiction.

original fiction by Peter Atwood • Nominated as “Best Short-Form Work in English” for Canada’s counterpart to the Hugos, the Prix Aurora Awards!

original fiction by Rachel Swirsky • “You gasp when you notice my toes edging over the precipice — then gasp harder a moment later when you see my hair floating in the wind. It looks like feathers.”

an original novelette by Matthew Pridham • “We heard screams, tasted the blood that spilled on our lawns as the vandals were infected, as they turned on one another.”

original fiction by Karen Heuler • “How beautiful it was to watch as characteristics became form, as the infant with a lithe crawl became a cat; as the toddler with the steady gaze became an owl, as the child who ran became a horse. It was magnificent. “

original fiction by Micaela Morrissette • “The meat department was a gargantuan walk-in refrigerator: the space so enormous and the cold mist so dense that she could not see from one wall to the opposite. Chicken, goat, bear, salmon, pork, lamb, conch, squab…”

original fiction by Ramsey Shehadeh • “He was big as the moon and black as the night, and he came crashing into the city like a silent meteor.”

original fiction by chiles samaniego • “A remarkable number and variety of people gathered around John Bastion; positively magnetized by the gawky, dark, inexplicably odd young lad with the horn, they watched and listened with slack jaws and glazed eyes.”

original fiction by Karen Heuler • “He never actually saw the fish take off — he always caught them flying, instead — but he had to assume they did a kind of leap first, so he put up a higher fence.”

original fiction by Zoran Živković • “Exactly two months and eleven days after my twin brother and I were conceived, he decided not to be born.”

original fiction by Chris Furst • “Entire tribes of clowns had been wiped out. Even the proud Karamazovs and the once-numerous Bozos were reduced to eking out a living as Ripley’s exhibits.”