Some insist that it is completely impossible. Some say that, in the future, anything could be possible.

Which side does Aaron Harding stand on?

He knows it's possible, but he insists that it is not. For if everyone knew what he knows, the world would be a very different and much worse place to live.

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Sci-Fi | invention future vaporize

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Short stories: Zombies - by Jess Howe - Helium

Posted by masonpollack 178 days ago (http://www.helium.com)

The other zombies howled with laughter as Plourgh's voice trailed off in a string of expletives. It was the fourth day of taping, and the cooking show was going to go well if this kept up, Jlurth thought, wriggling the bone on his left pinky till it oozed and there was more sweet pain.

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Horror | zombie horror funny

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French Artist Killed in Sunday’s Earthquake

Posted by masonpollack 178 days ago (http://www.fiftytwostories.com)

I have long been fascinated by the idea that an entire story—potential, conflict, joy, agony, completion—could be contained in a snapshot. In this story from his luminous debut collection, The Secret Lives of People in Love, Simon Van Booy proves not only that it can, but also that the snapshot itself is optional.
Words are enough.

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Romance | potential conflict joy agony complet

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I’ll Never Get out of This World Alive

Posted by masonpollack 179 days ago (http://www.fiftytwostories.com)

We have Thomas Cobb to thank for many things: For writing Crazy Heart, which the Houston Post called “the finest country-western novel ever written.”
For the Oscar-nominated film based on that novel. And for the stories in his award-winning collection Acts of Contrition, including this fine meditation on love, fidelity, lyric poetry, and the siren song of a steel guitar

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Romance | love fidelity lyric poetry

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