2022 April | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine They called him Robin Hood (See also: entropy). Like a bee he moved through the cosmos, Breaking things down to their key components: Iron for blood, oxygen for air, carbon for everything. Sometimes he made the stars combust And explode in a rain of glitter, Which he gathered in his…

2022 April | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine The cosmic forecast betokens calm, physicists confident the universe will neither freeze nor rip asunder. Earth serenely sails the Milky Way, unrocked by meteor or solar storm, no supernova threatening near. The polar ice caps cycle seasonally, constant to their age-old habits, harboring penguins, polar bears. Between the separate nation…

2022 April | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine I will not ask forgiveness for your dismantling. Blinking lights drowning in the twilight of my crowbar, wheels punctured and deflating in their sighs: you are dog-like in my readiness to put you down. Crumpled screens and jaw soldered shut. You whine at me. You were designed to whine at me. You were designed to whine and…

2022 April | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine The word ‘iconoplast’ — the one who makes images or icons — appeared on page two- hundred-and-eleven of Toaster’s dictionary. ​From what he knew, humanity used dictionaries for moral and personal guidance: that when they did not know what to say or do, they would open the book to a…

2022 April | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine “Come on Danele, wake up. It’s like noon. Are you really going to nap away the day like this?” ​“Maybe.” My muffled response snuck out from the crinkled folds in the pillow I had pulled over my head. ​“Nah, get the fuck up D!” Ziv laughed as they pounced on…

2022 April | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine We look to the mauve skies and chant: You’ll never know. You’ll never know. You’ll never know. ​But one day, there’ll be a spaceship that finds you exiled on your new planet of white and reddened colonies, plump with the bitterness and rage that accompanies being orphaned and othered. That…

2022 February | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine The last story Edith ever hears is spoken softly by her 15-year-old son. She listens from her bed as her breathing weakens and the monitor readings drop. ​“There was a time when an emperor’s iron rule cast the planet in shadow, draining its resources for greed and power,” Jacob tells…

2021 December | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine Of all the stars I could’ve aimed my lens at, yours, of course, would greet my cobalt eye. Expanse of space is not enough to bend my gaze away from Earth though circuits try to pass it off as chance. Algorithms that pick your planet blindly? Please. I must be truly lovesick, struck and wrapped in…

2021 December | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine There wasn’t even a moment of light-headedness coming out of the jump. That in itself was something to get used to. Twenty-nine years of space travel made me instinctively anticipate those first few seconds after the return to normal space, when your vision blurs and the nausea rolls over you…