SFF SHORT STORIES

Down in the Dim Kingdoms

The airship’s spotlights played off the vast rocky sides of the shaft that plunged deep into the Earth’s core through the lithosphere and eventually to our destination: the Center of the Earth! I yawned. We fell so slowly, the sides of the shaft several hundred feet away, and it had been a long, boring day of this. There’d been a boy, earlier, t...

To Walk This Distant Shore with You by A.D. Sui

We’re ten and watching what must be the last physical television in what must be the last laundromat in the world. Your mom is on her third load, jeans this […]

enough johnnie blue

As the Tide Loves the Diver, As the Diver Loves the Tide by Ravn J. Silver

Your first swim starts like this: your mother, checking the seal of your rebreather and the cables attached to the port at the base of your skull before lowering you […]

The Dragonfly