Steam rises from fried lizard skins, synth burgers and vats of fermented worm tea, like fickle specters in the rain-cloaked night. Rally Cyan zigzags between the stalls, a small shadow…

Mike almost beheads me on our third date. The wildly swung axe lies dead at my feet, freshly ricocheted from a target board hanging twenty yards away.“This’ll be a great…

The essays arrive in waves.Cheerful waves.Each begins with something like I have always wanted… Wanting is a credential. The present is a well. The essay is a ladder. The applicants…

 For Lili, the bird catcher’s sailboat makes a very nice home. Right now, it is more like a cave than a boat. It is turned on its side and propped…

1.Another demon had been spotted in Bushwick. Scales and fangs and the works. The night before, it had pushed its owner – one of the girls – off the Williamsburg…