short stories – Ted Hayden

Madeline Cash “Earth Angel” – Vanessa Onwuemezi “Dark Neighborhood” – Teffi “Other Worlds”

In Madeline Cash’s “Plagues,” God punishes 21st century Southern California with frogs and drone strikes raining down from the sky, Brita filters that turn water into blood, and cows suffering from yeast infections. But these plagues, as horrible as they are, make everyone happy, because each is proof that God is real and has returnedContinue reading “Madeline Cash “Earth Angel” – Vanessa Onwuemezi “Dark Neighborhood” – Teffi “Other Worlds””

Will Self “The Quantity Theory of Insanity” – Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights” – Matthew Rose “A World After Liberalism” – Christopher Priest “The Gradual”

“Waiting,” the final story in The Quantity Theory of Insanity, is about Jim, a man in late ’80s, early ‘90s London who is tired of waiting. Instead of sitting in traffic, he becomes a disciple of a motor-courier/prophet named Carlos who “never has to wait” and can visualize all of the city’s “the tail-backs, allContinue reading “Will Self “The Quantity Theory of Insanity” – Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights” – Matthew Rose “A World After Liberalism” – Christopher Priest “The Gradual””