26
Jun

thank you ma’am

by Etienne Telling The small wireless bullet vibe between Linnet’s legs buzzes loud enough for her to hear it over the van’s A/C. It had rested over her clit, but she’s so wet that it slipped and is now a low tease somewhere just below. A combination of thick thighs and the rope harness woven […]

26
Jun

Customer Service

by Marzia Dagger It was another hot, sticky summer night, and sweat beaded up along Wesley Singh’s brown skin as soon as he stepped out of his car. The W on the neon sign for his club, Wonderland, flickered and burnt out as he walked up to the door. Another problem to add to the […]

26
Jun

Footsteps to Favor

by Torino Koji I. In the land of Ingertry, in the capital of Gweyir, the royal family of the Mistcrown had ruled for nearly a thousand years.  Ingertry was a land of mixed peoples, where war had ravished the edges of the land, taking earlier Kings and Queens.  The current King was Dormyar, who had […]

26
Jun

To Bind Me, Or Undo Me

by Togi Kayako (土宜草子) illustrated by Higanbanashi (ヒガンバナシ ) There was an art to rejecting a marriage proposal, and thus far, it was not one Edmund had mastered. The unfinished letter sitting centered on his desk contained only a salutation and two pleasantly bland introductory sentences. It had taken him three drafts, plus the better […]

26
Jun

Unseemly

by shukyou (主教) “Aunt Linda, did…” Paul had no idea how to word this question. “Did Mom and Dad … sell me?” He wanted to hear her laugh at that, amused by what seemed to her a rare show of whimsy from her straitlaced nephew. He wanted to hear her express utter confusion, wondering why […]

24
Apr

All This Damn Gravity

by shukyou (主教) illustrated by 2013 The date had been marked on Zoey’s calendar for … well, it’d been a while, actually; orbits were predictable like that. But for the last seventeen trips around the moon, she’d been counting down with bated breath, going to bed every night with the quiet excitement of knowing that […]

24
Apr

Delineation

by Etienne Telling illustrated by The Winter Cynic “It feels like another world up here,” Geoff says as he looks out the window and the trees blurring past as they drive: twisted spindly pines, old oaks, and white flashes of birch. Even the soil changes; the grass on the side of the road gives way […]

24
Apr

I know you don’t really mean it

by A. Nellsechs   The telegram reaches Everson when he’s in his stained glass studio. He wipes the sweat from his brow and then from his hands before he reaches out to take it. It’s an address and nothing more, which would be suspicious to any other recipient, but this isn’t the first time Everson has […]

24
Apr

The Petit Allegro

by stills The shipboard computer booted up with a whirring whine. Cascading functions executed themselves, slowly at first and then gaining speed as the processors warmed up. Diagnostics, inventory, memory. The captain’s keycode and biometrics were familiar. Captain Lucas Graham leaned against the console and grinned in the general direction of the main interface screen. […]

24
Apr

Our Bodies, Our Scales

by juou no zan (女王のザン)   Eddie had been having a feeling that something was wrong on their walk for a few minutes now. They might have said the hair on the back of their neck or arms was standing up, if they had hair there. As it was, their scales felt like they didn’t […]

24
Apr

Bleed Me Dry

by Togi Kayako (土宜草子) From a distance, the Vessel of the Goddess looked proper fancy. The afternoon sunshine turned her white robe and tall headpiece into a beacon as she wound her way through the tilled fields.. It wasn’t that glow, nor the shine of all the bits of metal and glass she was weighted […]

24
Apr

oh Charlie Harper we love you get up

by spitkitten It’s unfair, Charlie thinks, how handsome Mitchell Shaw is. Unfair, unjust, unnecessary. It’s the kind of handsomeness that sort of hurts Charlie’s feelings, actually: It wounds his professional pride. Mitchell Shaw — please, call me Mitchell — is not an actor. He has no need to be that tall, or to be that […]

27
Feb

A Wizard Did It

by murasaki My group project partner and I were hunched over our laptops when I felt the first familiar brush across my cheek. “Sorry, I have to go to the restroom,” I told Rebekah as quickly and nicely as possible, then bolted. I was just glad it was starting off slowly this time. I barely […]

27
Feb

Even I Want to Be Cary Grant

by Hiwaru Kibi (火悪 木美)   “You were really good out there.” Tanya looked up from her phone to see a very familiar face — even though she didn’t know the woman wearing it. Tanya remembered her from the competition, though. She’d chosen a more contemporary Anaïtis look, something like what Anaïtis had worn on […]

27
Feb

Dentes Sub Corium

by Iron Eater The little playbill in Hugh’s hand promised him a great many delights upon the stage of the Sauvageot Theater, ranging from jolly comedy to musical performance to acts described in terms most gruesomely lurid, but he had yet to have the opportunity to evaluate the truth of any such claims; until the […]