Strange Horizons

16 Mar 2026

If you say there are rats, I will believe you, though I don’t hear or see them.

16 Mar 2026

A ruffling of branches as they resettle for the night. We dare not ask why they are here.

9 Mar 2026

and we let loose our dragon by the sun of a thousand fireflies

2 Mar 2026

the trees were softening, their bark for the hungry to scrape and scrape and spread it on whatever bread they could beg or bake

2 Mar 2026

i must warn you before all else / before you poke and prod

23 Feb 2026

Policies fell upon us, hard rain. Every headline a new lash of laughter

23 Feb 2026

Adjust the color of the sky, my phone offers

16 Feb 2026

In the beginning, the ocean was lonely / and so she created a fifteen-year-old girl / (or was it the other way around?)

16 Feb 2026

It’s me not you, and the / Hole in the sky still weeps sticky tears.

9 Feb 2026

The triangles bred and twisted, replicating themselves.