Posts by Jeremy Ray

Marjorie slides off her space suit.“Glenda, play: Home.”“Certainly dear,” says Glenda, her spaceship.Glenda’s red lights dim. Marjorie slides into her only remaining Earth dress, made of spider silk.Glenda’s mirror-scaled walls rotate…

Phelia hums as she plugs the tub. It’s the first time she’s alone in the house.She pours epsom salt in the bath and runs the water.Phelia hears the whispering as…

I hated my mom as a kid. Of course Dad went from happy to brooding; she lectured him all the time about eating candy.We were allowed some. Why wasn’t he?…

The woman petted the newly adopted cat as her husband drove. “To lose both owners…”Powder had been distraught over losing Mira. It understood its ailing owner had to do with…

Eileen stared at sleeping Trent as the sun rose.This face once made her shudder. And now?The sun’s tangerine rays spread over his large ear,slid down his craggy cheek,moving over his…

As the rain pours, Winifred clings to her dead children.Delirium morphs her neighbors' wails into her own skin pustules’ screams for God’s mercy.This is no plague; it’s hell.​Lightning reveals a…

The beautiful woman in her thirties smiles as her handsome family holds hands at the dining table:her husband,her father,her daughter,her son,her mother,back to her.​Her mother squeezes her hand: “May we……

Alien leaders at The Intergalactic Federation of Intelligent Life hissed and clicked and warbled and radiated amongst themselves, debating: Should humanity continue to live or be “dismissed”?​Usually voting was easy: creatures…

As her boyfriend’s car barreled and swerved up the golden mountain, Lily glared out her passenger window.​“Isn’t it beautiful?” he asked.​It seemed as though they were driving on clouds. The…

What crooks Edgar and Silo lacked in brains, (they believed) they made up for in resolve. But instead of planning out crimes, they planned on manifesting one from the universe.​We’ll…