Stories and Serials

From the multi-award winning author Alessandro Manzetti. Here again, like a fossil with a still, soft heart hidden beneath its stone, I stand in front of this tomb. You left, Grace. You left too quickly. White skin, thin fingers, inky hair tied off your face. Wings for arms, rubies in your eyes. That’s how I imagine you, […]

It’s a small group, it always has been, but the fact that there’s still a group says something that no one seems willing to discuss. Destiny has never been all it’s cracked up to be. You can tell in the hallway who’s bound for my session by the long sleeves and the lack of eye […]

May 5th, 2026 Nemesis. That’s what they’re calling it.  Named after the Greek goddess who punished hubris, now also the brown dwarf hurtling toward us. It was discovered several months ago hurtling along a path that passes right through our solar system, right past Earth. Apparently a brown dwarf is a star too small to […]

I first saw Dawn coming over the desert from a long way off. She was hooded, but she didn’t look armed, so I let her come on unchallenged even though my rifle was close to hand. She didn’t look like a bandit or an eater either. Just a woman unfortunate enough to be without a […]