Open House
This issue, you’re invited to come in and poke around. The door’s wide open, and the rooms are rife with knickknacks and tchotchkes to befriend. Like any home, this one…
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The Witch House
LAURA BUCHANAN “This house is a festering lesion on my side,” Gwendolyn thought, sipping her milkweed and pigtail tea. Despite the crisp autumn air and vibrant red leaves, Gwendolyn gave…
A Nice Guy
CAITLIN OUANO INT. COMMUNITY CENTER EMILY walks in. She sits. Mask on. Waits. Waits. About a hundred people are around her. 10:00 A.M. time slot. Scrubs and needles all around.…
Pink Andromeda (Part 3)
ITUA UDUEBO You can read Part 1 of the story here.You can read Part 2 of the story here. Nothing was where it was supposed to be, nothing was in…
Pink Andromeda (Part 2)
ITUA UDUEBO You can read Part 1 of the story here. The night before, he’d dined on Draquavorian. Alien carcass, ripped from the corpse of an eight-foot, green-grey tripedal creature…
Pink Andromeda (Part 1)
ITUA UDUEBO Wherever shade could be found from the harsh light, he searched for it. Stumbling, shifting his feet, dragging his body and the stained clothes shoddily draped around it…
Love, Immune: A Short Story
SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL It happened so quickly. I fell and I fell hard. Head over heels, completely smitten and all of those other clichés that nauseate me. But I have…
The Vortex (and other symptoms)
ANTHONY REALE II. we began We began as we didn’t know much about much or anything on how to clutch our time closer, errant waste be damned and damned! Death…
In Sickness and In Health
In this issue, we explore and expand on the theme of inoculation, beyond its traditional understanding as a word for controlling infectious diseases and other productive instances of melding, commingling,…
Musings on Change in The Time of COVID-19
In the last year or so since the COVID-19 pandemic began, so much has changed in the world as well as in the lives of our SixByEight community — including our…