HOW WE MEET
In dARK MATTEr MAGAZINE

A couple wants a child so badly, they agree to try memory modification technology.

Each time we meet for the first time, the therapy algorithm finesses the experience. It replaces the previous session, the shared memory that used to be.


Like an Itch You Scratch
The Dread Machine

Five teenagers gather at an abandoned playground to smoke pot during an outbreak. What could possibly go wrong?

Crossing the rope bridge felt like we’d already gotten away with something. We sort of had. We were young and alive and together, weren’t we?

Hourglass
The Arcanist

A superhero-time-travel-Benjamin-Button origin story that throws you for a loop. (Or, listen on Spotify)

Uncanny, you’ll think years later, this origin story. The better man you’ll be, this new you sparking to life at the exact moment the old you runs out of time.


Happy Endings Massage Parlor (Breadcrumb #611)

Breadcrumbs MAGAZINE

A secret door gives you the answers you can’t quite divine for yourself.

When you make it through the hall, when you let out the breath you’ll have been holding, you’ll be in a little back room that, every five minutes, will spin wildly about on its chicken legs.