Chaaya is everygirl, she wants her arms removed immediately. For when the chief surgeon engineer gives her better-quality arms she will play better, faster, throw the ball higher than the other little girls and make the baseball team when she finds high school in America. Her mother does not approve; she wants a complete daughter…
Tag: Sci-Fi
Mars
My brother and Iliked to stand, feet inweighted boots and play catch the easy way, the balls curving slow. We’ve matured since then – he explores while I, laboratory-bound, study the things he bringsback; strange aliens. The best place to throwwas on a moon, withsoft gravity andgentle drops, our claspingfingers firm around the sphere. Our…
Crows
I glanced back into our pickup’s bed. Light was fading, and I couldn’t fight the urge. Don’t, my father said. An unanchored end of our tarp rippled beneath the faces of Mr. and Mrs. Hammond. The Hammonds had worked the land alongside ours for five generations. Mrs. Hammond sang first soprano in the church choir….
Bullet the Blue Sky
It was the field of tiny yellow flowers that Chloe first started to remember. Gathering them up in her skirt. Making yellow flower bracelets under a blue sky. Where in the fuck was that? Chloe didn’t ever remember seein’ no blue sky. The sky was sulphurous and orangey, everywhere on Phalanges. Chloe had been to…