Category Archives: Fiction
Experimental Eschatology: Key Definitions in an Emergent Field
An essay by Lady Dr. Morag MacChruim, as provided by Zoe McAuley Photo by Dawn Vogel This treatise is intended to define a field of study which has long been the focus of my life: Experimental Eschatology. The term is my own and I define it as the study and analysis of potential means of [...]
The Monster Is the Father to the Child
An essay by Frankenstein, as provided by Richard Zwicker Art by Katie Nyborg “Are you Frankenstein?” The question was laughable. I was seven feet tall, with a head flatter than the Netherlands, and twin electrodes sticking out the sides of my neck. I was either Frankenstein or the latest in Halloween shoe trees. After returning [...]
Oenophilia
An essay by Dr. W, as provided by Megan Vogel. Photograph by Megan Vogel. I gazed thoughtfully at the dark emerald beaker, turning its smooth surface in my gloved hands. The dim light in my laboratory gave it an eerie, dull glow. How important this simple tool would be in my plan–the results of today’s [...]
Evolutionary Tendencies Observed in the Callentradian Snare
From the unpublished field journal of James L. Goldstein, PhD, edited and With an Afterword By J. J. Roth In the three years since I left New Earth to take my current post studying native avifauna on the planet Callentradia, I have yet to encounter a species that should charm me as much as falsus-cygnus tympanum, the [...]
An Encounter with Hemphillia candelabrum
From the Journal of Miss Allegra Bushwallow, as provided by Janka Hobbs Art by Katie Nyborg The night was dark, lit only by the phosphorescent trails of giant slugs sliding like zeppelins through the jungle trees. The incessant drone of insects was punctuated by the cries of night birds and the helpless bleating of the [...]
The Black Spot
An essay by Michael R. Burnes and Martin Hobbs, as provided by Mathew Allen Garcia Illustration by Luke Spooner/Carrion House They calmed the blaze that had consumed four lives at 4:03 a.m on December 22nd, 2005. When they found him, he was hanging from a beam in his study, an extension cord tied around his neck. [...]
Mabel’s Mission
An essay by Mabel Foster, as provided by K. Esta Art by Shannon Legler Unfortunately for most mad scientists in this world–sorry I shouldn’t say “mad.” That’s what I keep hearing everyone else around here call you. I know some of you don’t like it, and rightfully so, it isn’t very nice. How about … [...]
Artist Killed in Mysterious Affray
From page six of the Austrian newspaper Deutsches Volksblatt, 21st April, 1910 [translated from the German] By Wolfgang Teller, special correspondent, as provided by Conor Powers-Smith Art by Katie Nyborg Brigittenau, Vienna – Residents of the Meldemannstrasse were shaken by a bizarre and unexplained crime which occurred here last evening. According to witnesses, the victim [...]
The Disappearance of Mr Christopher Asquith
An essay by Christopher Asquith, as provided by James Rowland Photograph by Eleanor Leonne Bennett An Extract from the Diary of Mr Christopher Asquith Wednesday 1st March, 1899 I did begin to think for the first time that this journal would lie naked and ashamed for an entire week in my present state of stagnation. [...]
