Week Twenty-Six: The Foreign Legion
By Curtis Edmonds
You can read this series from the beginning here. "Justin, we need to talk." "I’m sorry," I said. "Who is this again?" "Robert Lansing," the voice on the other end of the phone said. "Bryan, Lansing and Colby, LLC. We’re the accounting firm that handles the income tax liabilities for beneficiaries of the Fairchild Family […]
PreTeena March 30-April 5, 2015
By Allison Barrows
March 30, 2015 March 31, 2015 April 1, 2015 April 2, 2015 April 3, 2015 April 4, 2015 April 5, 2015 <– Previous strips *** Next strips –>
Sideways of the EarthStories About Pugnacious Footefake
By David Skinner
One night the moon falls into Pugnacious Footefake’s yard. He meets a frenetic mousefox while taking the census. Two children try to sell him a cup of gravity. An earthly event with a fax machine prompts him to arrange a marriage. He finds himself on a snowy world, with a Princess trapped in ice. A […]
Noah, Penny
By David Skinner
Fyfe says he’s not a guy, not a gal, not a person, just a thing. So he says. He still has arms and legs and hair and teeth and fingers and a nose. He talks and he hears. I’ve pinched his arm, he didn’t like it but he let me, and I know he’s no […]
And Three Others
By David Skinner
A baby appears in a home and no one remembers being the mother. A woman considers an invitation to adultery. A critic reviews an atypically transgressive play. A man finds himself married to a former porn star, a woman he has adored for years. Samples A CONFUSION OF MOMS Well, Betsy, about the only thing […]
The Spare Midge
By David Skinner
A man retrieves his hero from a starship’s virtual storage before that hero can be arrested for murder. Two children fight over an alien rocketship. A member of a crew sent to destroy a distant solar system learns his mother has petitioned for his death. A young man resolves to marry the intimate companion of […]
The Giant’s Walk
By David Skinner
Canto 1 Hale and well-tempered was Scott Winslow Hale. His body was military grade, and unscarred; his intensity in combat had been not an intemperate fury but an unflappable precision, and those frenetic months against China — as part of the 16th Fighter Squadron, 51st Interceptor Wing — had never made him a daredevil. Fit […]
Week Twenty-Five: The North Imitation
By Curtis Edmonds
You can read this series from the beginning here. I got the three a.m. phone call a little early, at about two forty-five in the morning. "Get dressed," the person on the other end of the phone said. "Hurry up." "Who is this?" I asked. "There isn’t time," the voice said. "Move. A town car […]
PreTeena March 23-29, 2015
By Allison Barrows
March 23, 2015 March 24, 2015 March 25, 2015 March 26, 2015 March 27, 2015 March 28, 2015 March 29, 2015 <– Previous strip*** Next strip –>
Don’t Cross the Matriarchy
By James Wilson
Miss Chary nodded, then frowned. "I think I can see your reasoning on how your matriarchy helps older women," she said, "but what about all the rules for younger women? Don’t you think that they were designed by men? Anxious fathers, at least?" "To a degree," nodded Thornton, "but for the most part they are […]
