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People Who Live in Invisible Houses, Robert P. Kaye
“The InvisiCoat on the roof deck reflected cumulonimbus and flaming sunset such that exiting the stairwell looked equivalent to plunging into a volcano. A blotch of berry-colored bird poop gave shape to the far rail. She launched before she could talk herself into retreat, staggering across the void, which proved solid underfoot after all.”
Ferryman , Laura Parker
“Our second moon, Acheron, is not made of cheese like the first moon. Quite the opposite, in fact — it’s made of dead bodies.”
Recalling the Creation Account, L.R. Harvey
“It’s something like this — I just can’t remember if / this was the day when God created men or moths –.”
Heliophobes at Night, Christopher X. Ryan
“One time two floor polishers got into a fistfight. No one saw it but me. They were evenly matched but at the end one lay slumped on the floor and the other guy went on polishing.”
Admission to the Burning Ruins — 10 Cents, Daniel Galef
“She looked a hundred and six. She looked a million and six. The segment was fake-real-time, a prerecorded interview that would get Frankensteined into whatever thirty-second snippet Len needed to fill space, but she seemed to think we were live. Or a newspaper, sometimes. I stopped correcting her.”
Beyond the Bardo, Jessica Powers
“The site was holy because it was the place where a prince once came across a starving lioness and her cubs, and cut off a piece of his own flesh so they might eat it and live. The prince became a Buddha for this act of generosity..”