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THE FROST OF BETRAYALFrank Kowalski stood in the parking lot of the Great Lakes Manufacturing plant with a cardboard box in his hands. The box contained a lunch pail, a framed photo of his wife and son, a set of wrenches, and a company watch he had not earned. The factory gates were locked. A chain hung across the entrance like a dead rope. He looked at the building. It had been his life for twenty-three years. Now...0 Comments 0 Shares 53 Views 0 Reviews
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The coffee at the highway rest stop tastes like it was brewed in a grease trap. It's perfect.I sat in a plastic chair that had been glued to the floor by decades of desperate travelers and drank it slowly, watching the interstate flow past like a river of steel and light. Trucks. Sedans. A semi with a dented trailer that said "FRED'S FISH & CHIPS" in letters that had peeled off one letter at a time until it just said "FRED'S FI." Three days. It had been three days since I ran. Three...0 Comments 0 Shares 17 Views 0 Reviews
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The house on Cotton Row Road had been dying longer than any of us had been alive.It sat on a patch of land that used to be a plantation before the war, before the cotton gave way to weeds, before the weeds gave way to something worse—forgetting. The porch sagged like a jaw missing teeth. The paint peeled in long strips, like sunburned skin. And in the basement, behind a wall of rotting cypress logs, was a door that led down into something that was not a basement but a...0 Comments 0 Shares 35 Views 0 Reviews
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STEEL PEGASUSThe year was 2357, and humanity had spread across the solar system like a cancer, consuming everything it touched. Earth was a dying world, choked by pollution and overpopulation, while the rich lived in orbital habitats and Martian colonies that gleamed like jewels against the void. Captain Julian Vance was a pilot in the Imperial Star Navy, though "Imperial" was a misnomer. There was no...0 Comments 0 Shares 53 Views 0 Reviews
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PEGASUS IN THE FOGThe fog rolled in from the Pacific at dusk, turning San Francisco into a city of ghosts. Sam Drake stood on the corner of Powell and Geary, watching the streetcars emerge from the gray like phantom ships, their bells muffled by the mist. He was waiting for a client who was already twenty minutes late. Sam was a private investigator, though the term suggested a glamour that his work rarely lived...0 Comments 0 Shares 33 Views 0 Reviews
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The Glass CeilingIn the roaring twenties, New York City was a symphony of jazz, gin, and ambition. For Clara, however, the music was muffled by the thick walls of her stepmother's expectations. Mrs. Thorne viewed Clara not as a daughter, but as a convenient piece of domestic machinery. By day, Clara was a filing clerk at a prestigious law firm, a position she held only because Mrs. Thorne had "donated" to the...0 Comments 0 Shares 11 Views 0 Reviews
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The iron heart beat like a clock wound too tight.I came to in the coliseum with blood on my teeth and steam rising from my ribs. The crowd above roared through the gaslit grates, their voices muffled by three stories of stone and shadow. I could hear the gears grinding in my chest—every heartbeat sent a fresh tremor through the iron framework embedded in my flesh. Another victory. Another day of being kept alive for their entertainment. The...0 Comments 0 Shares 37 Views 0 Reviews
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What the Trenches RememberAct I: The Mud It rained for forty-seven days straight. Arthur didn't count the days at first. He was too busy learning the geography of the mud. It wasn't the same mud he knew from the fields behind his father's farm in Kent. That mud was brown and warm and held the foot without complaint. This mud was a living thing, a gray soup that swallowed boots, swallowed men, swallowed hope with the...0 Comments 0 Shares 32 Views 0 Reviews
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BLOOD AND MAGNOLIASThe road to the Thibodeaux plantation had not changed in forty years, though the world outside the cypress knees and the Spanish moss had turned to something unrecognizable, something with concrete highways and men who walked on the moon. I drove my Ford down the cracked asphalt, the humidity wrapping around me like a damp shawl, and I thought of my grandfather's voice, old and cracked as dried...0 Comments 0 Shares 40 Views 0 Reviews
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