Put the Pigeon in the Road | Daniel Solomon

"You wrap the bone and the feathers into a napkin, which you place in your shirt pocket. Inside your pocket, the bit of down from your office slips quietly into the napkin's folds and joins its fellows..."

A Time After Fireflies | Ellie Cheng

"In the laogai, far far away from wherever Baba and Maa must be right now, she plays Nationalist and Communist with the other prisoner children after school, waving their red bandanas like battle standards..."

Tectonics | Edward Ahern

Edward Ahern has had four hundred stories and poems and six books published so far. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of nine review editors.

Pandering to the Audience | Marc Vincenz

"The crow pecks wildly. He’s scarred by last night’s tar and feather. 'Apparently so,' says the raccoon, 'in crow culture the rites of adulthood are cast early.' 'Only the old-fashioned believe such stories,' the crow mutters to the shrike..."

Love in the Knots of the Coptic Stitch | Beth Kephart

"Be aware the flowers will fade, that the fibers in the new paper are the fibers from the old paper, that whomever you were in the original will be whomever you are. There are no blank sheets..."

Imaginary Friend | Christine Salek

"Sometimes, when you have life growing inside of you, you wish you were a child again, and the thing inside you could be an imaginary friend that you feed and water and care for..."