The hands have been pulled out of all the clocks in the world.⁠—Tristan TzaraGrains et IssuesThe clocks wait, naked. Hands left late last night.Now vacant time can’t name later or now.Your floor is too orderly⁠—black squares, whiteoblongs stare back with evil smiles to spiteloose clocks. You’re naked and your...

💡Go read Flanders, George and His Pimavanserin now!Are you a big fan of crows?I confess my obsession is more with pigeons⁠—my favorites! But writing a story from the POV of a bird is hard enough without benefitting from the intelligence of a crow. It’s hard to imagine Pimavanserin snatching french fries off the...

All crows are smart, but Pimavanserin is the smartest. It was she who long ago domesticated the fierce coyotes of the desert. Now, she perches atop the highest spire of their roost, the most splendorous cactus in this land of red clay, and waits⁠—every day⁠—for Flanders, George.Crows have no equals except, perhaps,...

Art by Rusty Epstein

straddling the crunchof ice cube buoysadrift in his frozen milkshake,I can’t help but wonder,how did we get so small?✱she assumes every head nodsin solidarityas she reads her scifaiku⁠—but I’ve never seeneven a single episodeof star trek✱orbital traffic’s nonexistentrubbery whine ⁠—no airborne atmosphericsto...

Entries received 76 Longlist finalists 15 stories Honorable mentions 5 writers $10 entry fee returned Total prizes $555 paid to the three winners Welcome! Another year; another contest; another set of (extra)ordinary results.Before we get into things, I want to give a ginormous gallon of gratitude to our amazing...

Our fourth novelette is live! Snag a copy directly from us now or anywhere books are sold. In a world... ravaged by global warming and wars, Banana Brian is forced to take a job as a supervillain's henchman to pay off his student loans. In order to survive, Brian must find a way to pay off his giant debt, avoid...

You want glory and riches and fame and book signings and an HBO adaptation and Hollywood parties and piles of cocaine and then groupies and threesomes and orgies and more, so much more! Maybe a couple of statues and the Nobel prize and all of the trophies and medals and the bestseller status and a book tour and red...

Read New Beginnings now!So I’m of two minds for how this story resolves… on the one hand there’s the “this home, this timeline is where the heart is” on the other, our protagonist feeling incomplete almost feels like a subconscious regret of jumping. Where do you stand on this?For me, this ending became a parallel...

1.NowYou take your time with the cleanup. Heavy machinery sparking in the dusty nebula. Great tubes sucking galactic slurry into density accelerators, the remains of the Crion system. Green interstellar glow-lights illuminate the sides of your Spidercraft: the gaudy text “Clifford’s Cosmic Catastrophe Mitigation”...

The October issue of Foofaraw Zine is here! Download below or read in our purpose built ebook reader. Of course, all stories will be published for free on the web throughout the month, but paid supporters receive a PDF/EPUB with all of the month's stories at the beginning of the month, along with a few other...

The secret to interstellar travel was eventually found, not in the laboratories of Washington or Beijing, but in the riverbeds of eastern Tasmania. The planet Earth’s ultimate ambassador to the cosmos was not Homo Sapiens, as many had predicted, but Ornithorhynchus Anatinus, a winningly eccentric species known, to...