Mei Bao’s World
Is this the sea?
Baffler Archives: Stories
Columns
Patient Notes
You will forever be chasing reality.
Part of the Country
Hadn’t it closed too quickly, the window of freedom?
Swan River
It does not begin spontaneously, the career of a thief.
Analog Days
It was a time when we had lost the thread of the story.
Nastya
Short fiction by Vladimir Sorokin.
The Ark
“I know you’ll make a good apostle for the Lord.”
Flounder
Would not some good Christian give succor in an Emergency?
Bipolar Tendencies
“Give me one reason not to nuke this hole into next Tuesday.”
The Last Sign
There was no woman there. I am sure of that.
The Wyrm
Understand, it had far more neurological matter (you’d call it “brain tissue”) than a whale, a dolphin, a pig, or a human, but that material was put together in a very different way from yours, mine, a dog’s, an arthropod’s, arachnid’s, mouse’s, elephant’s, ...
Margaret Lewis
The old age community looped a fern-frosted lake flanked on both sides by identical little brown brick bungalows. His delivery truck was headed in the wrong direction. Numbers on the mailboxes going down instead of up. He believed he could get to her if he went a little farther ...