Backwater Archives

Brianna Bullen   She logged into her domain, an archive threatening to extinguish itself under its own over-stimulated, under-filtered information swarms. Pottering around for a minute, hyperlink diving, she quickly restrained herself and closed the browser. There was a subtle art to hyperlink diving: an arc into its deep data, not a plonk. A chosen…

Follicle

CB Harvey                 You’re absolutely sure? The whole beard? Such a shame. You just don’t see ‘em like this anymore. But, you know. You’re the boss. Snip snip. Snip snip. Honestly, don’t feel you need to talk. Just stare impassively into the mirror, thinking your private thoughts. That’s…

The Last Bee

Mhairi McIntyre | I wrote this piece as a reaction to current discussions of declining bee numbers. Even though I’m highly allergic to bee stings, I remember my childhood filled with honey sandwiches. I imagined a world without bees, where there would be no flowers, no trees and no environment.  — The world is different. I…