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“Fever Dream” by Rebecca M Ross

Posted on May 30, 2022

Rona piles rice from path to porch like snowdrifts sprinkled with crayon colored carrots, peas, corn– until the guardrail disappears under an ever-growing mountain  of cooked rice. I steal furtive […]

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“Close to the Fire” by Bill Kitcher

Posted on April 18, 2022

Jerry backed the ’68 Ford Fairlane into a driveway, then jammed it into Drive, and stomped on the accelerator. The tires squealed and he crossed the road, went up a […]

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“Departure” by Richard Helmling

Posted on August 13, 2021

On the first day, the sky went out. Davis had trouble remembering what they’d been doing when the noise started. Whatever it had been, they had carried on unperturbed. When […]

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“Diadem for the End of the World” by Randi Sanders

Posted on May 10, 2021

Seven billion was the end predicted by that movie where the population was fed on a questionable combination of soy, lentils, and plankton that wasn’t really plankton because we needed […]

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“The Donkey Saint” by Carl Fuerst

Posted on April 16, 2021

When Emil was in Youth Brigade, his labor unit was relocated to a region called “Janesville Wisconsin.” The territory had already been processed by a dozen salvage teams and Emil’s […]

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“now in the park july no–” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

Posted on January 8, 2021

now in the park july no– no parks are left. we survive inside the maelstrom of infinity, a glitch inside the program of identity late capitalism–no early capitalism– what is […]

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“Nigh” by Scott Mitchel May

Posted on September 14, 2020

Harvey Olsen never had any interest in surviving any kind of apocalypse — not zombie, not viral, and certainly not nuclear. He honestly did not understand those who did. All […]

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“So Dark, Up Above” by Emily Ruth Taylor

Posted on December 23, 2019

Sure, no one ever said that people were getting their powers from the rain. Tommy guessed it had something to do with all those big companies that owned the factories […]

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