Cake
Learning where someone lives can shift your entire sense of them.
Stories
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Chipper
This is what a prick looks like when they don’t know their father.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
One more reason to doubt the existence of God.
The Kwak Race
The city was screaming. It made you tremble.
Persistent Antagonism
Which of these specimens would father her child?
Civil Animals
Could death become your only responsibility?
Machine City
They let you set your ceiling till the last minute. Then you’re locked in.
Palace-Fortress
I had done all that history demanded.
Mei Bao’s World
Is this the sea?
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.