Across centuries. Past decay. Fear and determination: She recognizes herself in the ancient footsteps, hand pressed to her chest.…

I spent this time tearing the crust off a slice one millimeter at a time, choking down tiny, rubbery bites and trying to ignore Jean’s internal monologue. They worried about leaving me by myself when I could barely eat. They worried about staying if I’d rather be alone.…

To be fair, the finer details of the deal hadn’t been exactly clear. The alien had shown her, through a series of amorphous charades, the promise of glorious experiences and eternal youth in exchange for sharing her body…

The tug was a mantra, chanted by a human with more curiosity than sense. Inexorably, it pulled Surya in human form to the surface of the Earth where, for the second time in several millennia, he faced a blinking, bedazzled teenaged girl.…

“Keep your eyes closed and think of L.A.. On three, take a step.” When I stepped, the air turned cool, my sandal rung on hollow metal. Under our feet was an old steamboat with blue decks, held to a dock by massive lines.…

What happened next happened very quickly. The sequence of events at the Lekki Toll Gate was walled off by the suddenness of a blinding light. We only remembered that some of us were at the front lines, leaning or sitting on pentagon-shaped bricks, and got hit point blank by opened fire.…

The cat was not frightened. The cat was not a baby. The cat had been through unspeakable trials, and her expression said, For this, I will burn the world.…

I met the khanym when I tried to kill her. I broke into her office at the core of the hundredship, my sword shining white in my hand.…

The birth of his child was one of the few reasons they would ever let David out of his cell. He knew that what little bits of freedom they allowed him here and there were things that were supposed to be cherished but he wasn’t quite sure what to do with freedom.…