Hsi-wei and the Dragon’s Tail – By Robert Wexelblatt
Within a year after the itinerant peasant-poet Chen Hsi-wei retired to a small cottage outside Chiangling, he began receiving occasional visitors. Lady Bao, widow...
Punishment – By Mohammed Jadallah
Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim
Whenever our ruler made a television appearance, I would gather my three children around the crackly screen....
A Most Unpleasant Story – By Robert Wexelblatt
When Justine and Sheila came back from the ladies, Lauren was chatting with two good-looking men. Sheila had brought somebody from work, while Lauren...
The Blue Watch Tells the Cliffside Time – By Norbert Kovacs
Based on The Persistence of Memory (featured above) by Salvador Dalí
When he was young, he loved to study the rugged cliffside of his native...
Report to the Society – By Robert Wexelblatt
Honored Chairman and Members of the Société d’Exploration Anthropologique, the unrest in S. province has persisted as long as anyone can remember. The attitude...
A Flash of Lightning in a Summer Cloud* – By Ric Nudell
The spring sun had chinned above the Liminal Street Bridge and was beginning to scrub off the morning chill. Heard, but unseen, a cardinal...
Hsi-wei and The Rule of Avoidance – By Robert Wexelblatt
When he retired from walking through the Empire leaving behind him poems and straw sandals, Hsi-wei had been presented, formally by the governor but...
Emergency – By George Angel
Now I become distracted at the...
I Wouldn’t Rule Out A Wooden Box – By Michael Tyler
And I meet Davison in a burger joint balls-to-the-wall ‘retro’ in a way that is less than impressive. Davison is sitting in a booth...
Giant Step – By Eric Morlock
"Once you finally make that commitment," he says, "there's such a sense of peace. It's incredible."
The fog has lifted, and the early...
