ENDLESS

Before the boy kills his father the two of them arrive at a pair of vast steel blast doors. An aperture yawns in the wall to the left and inside are two loaves of bread the size of their forearms and a bowl of steamed vegetables in a pastry case. They extract their meal, gingerly…
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[OPINION] ANIARA – ASTONISHING AND DEPRESSING

Aniara (dir. Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman, 2018): 7/10 A colony ship leaves earth. It bumps into some debris which knocks it off course. It wanders out into the outer dark of the solar system. So far, so sci-fi, and a little ho-hum. It’s in the later, more demented, part of this movie that the original, haunting vision of…
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[FICTION] MY SHORT STORY, ‘HOMECOMING’, HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN FROM THE FARTHER TREES!

A tale of wistfulness, loss, and memory, ‘Homecoming’ has just been published in From the Farther Trees. This is a lovely, hand-made publication available on Etsy, and buying it will help you support a publication that’s clearly made with a lot of love. Please go check it out!
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