Short Fiction

Waiting is the Hardest Part, Fiction Southeast

Before the red planet was tamed, when it still carried some mystery as it rose in the West, twinkling and desolate. Before I watched your feet kick up dust on the Martian surface, before I followed your image through oxygen farms, young forests that seemed to stretch into infinity…(read more)


Distillation of a Lecture Given by Dr. William Gunther, Esteemed Professor of Applied Physics, Wherein He Discusses the Four Laws of Thermodynamics and Their Applications to Everyday Life, New Delta Review

Law the Zeroth: If two systems are both in equilibrium with a third system, then they are in equilibrium with each other.

Applications: When you’ve been teaching long enough to be tenured and you’re still single, your younger, married sister will try to set you up with a friend from her pottery class. You will see this act as one of thinly-veiled pity and promptly decline. She will get your mother involved. You will be forced to acquiesce. No one will be more surprised than you are when the date, in fact, goes well…(read more)