ART of the Solar System #13

by Cody Schell

Healing Properties of a Hypodermic to the Hippocampus

by Callum Rowland I used to love hospitals. Being inside them.   Their corridors and wards, as familiar as the veins crawling up my arm. The creaking leather chairs, womb-like in their enveloping. Used to invent symptoms just to go back, just to be surrounded by monitoring equipment and pious

Epiphany at the Temple of the Shadow Goddess

by Catherine Yeates  Steam poured off the seared edges of the columns that littered the temple floor. Brother Anselzar stepped carefully through the wreckage, his long robes trailing over the rubble. The light of a dim and cloudy sky filtered onto the broken altar. Behind it, the obsidian statue of

Bramblethwaite, Malinor, and Todd

by Christopher Degni Bramblethwaite hadn’t expected the Chosen One to be so… greasy, but Chosen Ones came in all forms. He’d consulted the Oracle of Amatar multiple times; there was no chance of error. This young man holding a bag of Fritos in one hand and a Switch

At the Threshold, There was Light

by Elijah J. Mears I don’t know how long I’ve been looking for a way out—it feels wasteful to count the seconds here, at the end of time. But I know it must be there. In the depths of my heart, I know that you wouldn’t

ART of the Solar System #12

by Cody Schell ART of the Solar System celebrates one year!

The Song Shines On

by Jo Berry Could I compare thee to a summer’s day?  Thou art the summer and the day incarnate.  Thy winds summon forth the herald aurorae  And all worlds hail thy golden coruscate ate ate ate  [—ate—]  [—later, okay? I’m still trying to run this diagnostic. And can

Claire de Lune

by Jacob Baugher  She comes back to the Carousel House in the blue evening, solitary on the Carolina seaside. Her black Samsonite makes looping tracks on the cold beach, dragging sand across the house’s threshold. She stays here sometimes when she needs refuge, pretends to be one with the

Evidence Before the Committee

by R. K. Duncan Content warnings: Eugenics, infanticide, forced abortion, forced sterilization, torture.  All exhibits marked CONFIDENTIAL URGENT ATTN: Diplomatic Committee; Ad-Hoc Sub-Committee for Generation Ship Response, Convened 344 AF, Planetary Commune of Jardin  Exhibit 1:   Statement of Abraham Helmangel, Captain, Glory of Falling Stars.  Inclusion challenged; not

ART of the Solar System #11

by Cody Schell

The Whole Beast

by Kara Dennison “There’s a difference,” said Dr. Burns, “between something being unkillable and something being unable to die.”  I turned my eyes back toward the lozenge-shaped airplane window, keen to move us to something less existential. “Speaking of unkillable,” I segued, “they’ve come a long way

Green Apples

by Liam Hogan The orchard was merely a hundred trees. A hundred and twenty, counting the malus sylvestris—crab apples—that fringed the sides.  “Why so many?” I asked, shivering in the February cold. Old crones made hedgerow jelly from the stunted apples, despite the wince-inducing tartness, despite their