AMA, MOTHER OF EKUR
Ama drank in the professor’s lecture as she rested on a stone slab in the Japanese Garden. Fittingly, the topic was botany. Fertility, to be precise. Ama listened from a…
Ama drank in the professor’s lecture as she rested on a stone slab in the Japanese Garden. Fittingly, the topic was botany. Fertility, to be precise. Ama listened from a…
A Tiger and a Strawberry A Not Unlikely Nightmare Bucky Bobbitt sighed in frustration and tapped his fingernails against the side of his head, which rang out a sharp metallic…
Abhayda lingered on the horizon, casting Adelar in shadow. It was hot, and it would stay hot for hours past sunset as ground and stones gave up their heat. Ulysses…
Humanity retreats North, beset by climate change. Mallory reaches for permanence and finds that something different awaits. This story was written to belong to anyone, so I humbly submit it…
A lot of people don’t like the Sargassum, complain it is dirty. But it’s a natural phenomenon. It’s the namesake of the Sargasso Sea, which, incidentally, is where the baby green turtles that hatch here spend their youth.
Diggory Karses stood on the sandy beach and looked out over the Gulf of Mexico. The sky turned from black to grey, and the red undersides of the storm-clouds announced…
Grist for the Mill Here's something that people all over the political spectrum can get behind. In 2020, ICE paid perhaps half a billion dollars FOR UNUSED BEDS to profiteering…
Techno-Phobe introduces Javier, an extended-cognition human, and Satoshi, an unmodified human. It is the first of the Adventures of Satoshi Bitman in my collection Fake News & Solitude. Satoshi's adventures…
This blog post explores for-profit education, debt, inequality, and destructive effects on mental health, opportunity, and productivity. This morning, I drove “Rabe” to our off-leash dog beach. It’s our first-light…