Publication: Uncharted

  • Chameleon by Mackenzie Hurlbert

    The narrator of this story is an awkward and shy college student who dreams of reinventing herself as her confident and cool new friend. Lydia had the loveliest blue-black hair, and the fluorescent lights of the Halloween Factory danced among her waves. Today, she wore it down, casually tossing it as she perused the racks…

  • Driverless by EJ Kavounas

    Driverless is just barely speculative fiction, a kind of 15-minutes-into-the-future story about the AI driver of a remote-controlled delivery van that encounters an unresponsive person at night. Envoy’s cameras picked up rhythmic torso movement, but a mask obscured Pedestrian Obstacle’s face. There was no blood or bodily fluids. The only identifiable data I could capture…

  • Shedim

    This starts on the first day of a women’s retreat. The whole story feels a little precarious, as though it could go off in one of a few directions: failed relationship, family nightmares, or something much more sinister: That night in my dream, I sit on the back deck of the Fairfield house, tall and…

  • Mordent

    It’s shocking and unpredictable, about a successful musician whose life starts to spiral in frighting ways. Be warned, there’s suicide in here: The week that everything went wrong started with a fight. This is what you expect me to say, what I wish I could say because saying it would give what followed a neat logic, the…