short story

Where Am I Now

Unplanned and random teleportation is a bitch.   Coming out of a deep sleep with llama standing over you in Illinois or breaking an arm when immediately falling out of a kids treehouse in Hartford, Connecticut are just a few of… Read More ›

Fiction Mining

Fiction Miners are some of the least imaginative people I know.  When you meet people, we never think of them as imaginative or lacking in imagination.  Not at first, that is not typically one of the foremost things on your… Read More ›

Prohibited Plat

The Smuggler Danny checked out the street; it looked clear.   Hopefully no one was paying attention down at Pol Central.  Thank god for Eckel’s Virus, the Eckels Virus had wiped out the pols facial algorithm. It was the only crippling… Read More ›

Effectiveness

Hemingway’s short story ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway’s ‘iceberg theory,’ which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.    Amitava Kumar Amitava Kumar (born 17 March 1963)… Read More ›