Kritik by Shannon Rampe
In our once-fair city, there was an owner of a certain gallery, an eccentric named Palaver Williams who prided himself on being more avant-garde…
Read MoreFeb 12, 2018 | Fiction
In our once-fair city, there was an owner of a certain gallery, an eccentric named Palaver Williams who prided himself on being more avant-garde…
Read MoreFeb 12, 2018 | Nonfiction
Welcome to Speculative City!
Here I wanted to introduce you to the magazine and its creators. As you begin reading the first issue, I thought I could…
Read MoreFeb 12, 2018 | Fiction
The bloody mess that had once been the body of a man was hidden in the shadows of an alleyway across from the pawnshop. It didn’t bother us much. We’d…
Read MoreFeb 12, 2018 | Nonfiction
I overhear a docent at Huntington Gardens in San Marino, California waxing poetic on the myriad meanings of roses. “You’d think you were…
Read MoreFeb 12, 2018 | Nonfiction
The following is an interview with Stefani Cox, speculative fiction writer, editor for PodCastle, and urban planner. Stefani Cox speaks with Meera Velu…
Read MoreFeb 12, 2018 | Poetry
My tincture – when the bubbles
floated by my face – submitted oscillations.
Velocity of arch, vaguely – you.
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