Speculative

Stories that lean literary, play with magical realism, and maybe touch on a bit of future speculation. Basically, the liminal space between them all.

  • SFF,science fiction,future
    Literary,  Published,  Short Stories,  Short Works,  Speculative

    In the Future Sense

    Published: Harrisburg Magazine, 5/6/2022. Illustration by Georgia DuCharme. You assumed too much. The world would be fine without you. In this, you were dreadfully wrong. The stars did not sing your praise. The Earth did not revel in your glory. The seas did not churn in exaltation. None shall know of you, but all shall owe you. It is of the passing of your days that all shall be made true, and light shall once again shine. So, as they…

  • In the Beginning Was Logos
    Published,  Short Stories,  Short Works,  Speculative

    In The Beginning Was Logos

    Published: Sick Lit Magazine, 7/27/2016. In the beginning was not a primordial mass. In the beginning was knowledge. In the beginning was logos. And in the end, there was nothing. All knowledge is outside time. What if in the beginning, you were logos? What if you knew that if you told anyone you would finally die? Would you even want to live if everyone you met could not retain the knowledge of ever meeting you? This is your life. You…

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A literary journey where magic threads into reality and science reaches the plausible extreme.