The shadow of my father’s citadel falls over me and still I tremble. Still I look perpetually over my shoulder as though you follow me, you who are banished from this land forever. In my fever I think that it is you who dries the leaves on the trees, blows away the petals of [...]
Chewing Up the Innocent
by Jay Lake
From the February 2007 issue
Ariadne’s a beautiful kid, you know what I mean? The kind of child that people stop and look at when we walk down the street, her little hand in mine. The Daddy hand, the cross-the-street hand, the I’m-worried hand that drops away the moment there’s a swing to be swung on or kids with jump [...]
Aeropolis
by Tomasz Maronski
From the February 2007 issue
My name is Tomasz Maronski. I’m 29. I paint on the canvas for almost 10 years…








