Blessings By The Sea
A lonesome man learns to live with the curse of three women from the witching sea.
Portension
Slipstream Speculative Fiction, Exclusive Serials, and Short Story Reviews
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The Manhood Singularity
The journey to manhood's event horizon requires making hard choices: some good, some bad. Beyond the singularity lies the outcomes of those choices.
Old Tom
It's been months, and no one can explain the atmospheric phenomenon reshaping our sky, and our lives. (Re-published from The Weather Reports)
From The Mountain, I See Slipstream
How Catherine Lacey became my new secret Slipstream crush, and why she will probably deny all my accusations
The Nuclear Option
Or how I learned to love my inbox again
Slipstream: When The Writing Gets Weird
I'm calling myself a slipstream writer these days. But what does that mean? What is this genre? Would I even know it if it jumped up and threw buttered popcorn in my face?
Characters as Heightened Concepts
An idea explained by George Saunders, and demonstrated by Senaa Ahmad
The Retirement of a Victorian Witch
An aging cleaning woman at a public swimming pool clings to her magical way of life amid a high-tech renovation
Crash Test
A retired mechanic forms an unlikely bond with Elara, a traumatized rescue car. As they prepare her for a critical self-driving re-certification, Elara plots revenge on her abusive former owner.
The Reminder
A young man goes in search of what it is to be a man, but what he finds is hard to swallow