Austin Treat

Fiction. 5 minutes to read. The days before Callisto’s destruction were pleasantly warm, and i spent them farming under a leafy chandelier, among the fruit-bearing trees, picking, eating, swallowing their seeds before bathing in a bottomless pool: indulgence from sun-up to the twilight moon. By nightfall, the air became cool. I slept in the shelter…

Fiction. 15 minutes to read. The hands were a gift from her mother. They came in a box with a man to install them. She followed him upstairs to her second floor bedroom. He used a box cutter. A personal choice, since he could’ve used his bare hands to peel the tape off easily. He…