Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• xi • Editor's Note (The 2017 Rhysling Anthology) • essay by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• 1 • This Rat • (2016) • poem by Anne Carly Abad
• 2 • Propagation • (2016) • poem by Layla Al-Bedawi
• 2 • "3D printer" • (2016) • poem by Francis W. Alexander
• 2 • Loose String • (2015) • poem by E. Kristin Anderson
• 3 • Selkie • (2016) • poem by E. Kristin Anderson
• 4 • The Genius • (2016) • poem by Sara Backer
• 4 • Foreign Policy • (2016) • poem by David Barber
• 5 • Antagonist • (2016) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 5 • How Far Does Night Have to Fall? • (2016) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 6 • I Left My Heart in San Francisco. I Left Yours Somewhere in Colorado ... • (2016) • poem by Matt Betts
• 7 • Spoiler Alert • (2015) • poem by Matt Betts
• 8 • Star Dust • (2016) • poem by Josh Brown
• 9 • "appendage sale" • (2016) • poem by Susan Burch
• 9 • A Bug in the System • (2016) • poem by Anton Cancre
• 9 • One Canoe • (2016) • poem by Shari Caplan
• 10 • My Pet Alien • (2016) • poem by Dennis Caswell
• 11 • The Box of Dust and Monsters • (2016) • poem by Beth Cato
• 12 • Bottle Cast Upon a Dry Sea • (2016) • poem by G. O. Clark
• 12 • The Dark Between Stars • (2016) • poem by G. O. Clark
• 13 • A Natural History of Snow • (2016) • poem by David Clink
• 14 • Glastonbury, 1994 • (2016) • poem by P. S. Cottier
• 15 • Past Imperfect • (2016) • poem by Deborah L. Davitt
• 15 • Always the Black and White Keys • (2016) • poem by Corrine De Winter
• 16 • My Corpse, My Groom • (2016) • poem by Ashley Dioses
• 16 • Witch Lord of the Hunt • (2016) • poem by Ashley Dioses
• 17 • Godzilla vs. King Kong • (2016) • poem by James S. Dorr
• 18 • Sutekh from the Throne • (2016) • poem by Denise Dumars
• 19 • Falling (A Part ) • (2016) • poem by Alexandra Erin
• 20 • Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek • (2016) • poem by Timons Esaias
• 21 • History Teacher • (2016) • poem by Gary Every
• 22 • Skin • (2016) • poem by Alice Fanchiang
• 23 • What Wants Us • (2016) • poem by Karolina Fedyk
• 24 • The Long Run • (2016) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 24 • Well, Water, Stars • (2016) • poem by Adele Gardner
• 26 • At the Robot National Convention • (2016) • poem by Alan Ira Gordon
• 26 • Space Opera • (2016) • poem by Vince Gotera
• 27 • Feles Alieni Vere Sunt • (2016) • poem by Neile Graham
• 28 • Until Dawn • (2016) • poem by Michael H. Hanson
• 28 • "Christmas on Mars" • (2016) • poem by Carolyn M. Hinderliter
• 28 • The Giantess's Dream • (2016) • poem by Ada Hoffmann
• 29 • Ink • (2016) • poem by Akua Lezli Hope
• 30 • Martian Garden • (2016) • poem by John Philip Johnson
• 30 • The woman on the bus encounters time dilation • (2016) • poem by Daniel R. Jones
• 31 • Memorial • poem by Tim Jones (variant of Memorial (for Jonathan Franzen) 2016)
• 32 • After • (2016) • poem by Herb Kauderer
• 33 • Dorothy Delivered • (2016) • poem by Kathleen A. Lawrence
• 34 • Riding the Dark • (2016) • poem by B. J. Lee
• 34 • Returning • (2016) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 35 • The Ash Manifesto • (2016) • poem by Rose Lemberg
• 36 • World's Tiniest Human • (2016) • poem by Muriel Leung
• 36 • The Architect of Bonfires • (2016) • poem by Tonya Liburd
• 37 • Stellar Quake • (2016) • poem by John C. Mannone
• 38 • Descent of the Composer • (2016) • poem by Airea D. Matthews
• 38 • The birds forget to sing • (2016) • poem by Carl Mayfield
• 39 • Bones Knock in the House • (2016) • poem by Mary McMyne
• 40 • Salome's New King • (2016) • poem by Terry Miller
• 41 •
  The Doppelgänger and the Ghost^?The Doppelganger and the Ghost
  • (2016) • poem by Lev Mirov
• 42 • The Phosphorescent Fungi • (2016) • poem by D. L. Myers
• 42 • Nothing Goes Away • (2016) • poem by Adrienne J. Odasso [as by A. J. Odasso]
• 43 • Widening Gyre • (2016) • poem by Adrienne J. Odasso [as by A. J. Odasso]
• 43 • Invocation of Diana • (2016) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 44 • The Spook Tree • (2016) • poem by Cindy O'Quinn
• 45 • Song of the Encantado • (2016) • poem by Jeremy Paden
• 46 • Quasar • (2016) • poem by Triin Paja
• 46 • Orpheus • (2016) • poem by Ace G. Pilkington
• 47 • Adolescence • (2016) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 48 • La Villa de Sirenia • (2016) • poem by Jack Ralls
• 48 • Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A. Instructions and Suggestions • (2016) • poem by Wendy Rathbone
• 49 • Exotic Heads Trimmed Neatly • (2016) • poem by John Reinhart
• 50 • "The Old Ones gather" • (2016) • poem by Terrie Leigh Relf
• 50 • The Sparrows in Her Hair • (2016) • poem by Hester J. Rook
• 51 • The Bird Prince • (2016) • poem by John W. Sexton
• 52 • Sappho and the Woman of Starlight • (2016) • poem by John W. Sexton
• 53 • George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts • (2016) • poem by Marge Simon
• 54 • Less Than Human • (2016) • poem by Marge Simon
• 51 • Learning the History of War • (2016) • poem by J. J. Steinfeld
• 55 • The Last Woman on Earth • (2016) • poem by Mary Stone
• 55 • Marginalia on Eiruvin 45b • (2016) • poem by Bogi Takács
• 56 • Love in the Time of Apocalypse • (2016) • poem by Ann Thornfield-Long
• 56 • The Persecution of Witches • (2016) • poem by Ali Trotta
• 58 • The Fantasy of Hans Christian Andersen • (2016) • poem by KH van Berkum
• 58 • To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse • (2016) • poem by Burlee Vang
• 59 • Classification of Folktales • (2016) • poem by Margaret Wack
• 60 • Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects • (2016) • poem by T. D. Walker
• 61 • Richard Feynman's Commute • (2016) • poem by Jon Wesick
• 62 • To the Girl Who Ran Through Crop Circles • (2016) • poem by Karen J. Weyant
• 63 • Quack • (2016) • poem by Neal Wilgus
• 64 • The Memory Machines • (2016) • poem by Jane Williams
• 65 • Terran Mythology • (2016) • poem by Shannon Connor Winward
• 65 • *For Quick Sale* • (2016) • poem by Greer Woodward
• 66 • Of My Wounds, There Are Many • (2016) • poem by Stephanie M. Wytovich
• 67 • Black Bull of Norroway • (2016) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 68 • Death Rides USAir at Night • (2016) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 68 • Rusalka • (2016) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 69 • Supercomputer Spends the Night • (2016) • poem by Danielle Zaccagnino
• 71 • Further • (2016) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 72 • Exploratory Colony 454—15th May, 2052 • (2016) • poem by Lore Bernier
• 74 • When the Gunman Comes • (2016) • poem by Edith Hope Bishop
• 75 • Houses of the Living, Houses of the Dead • (2016) • poem by Jenny Blackford
• 77 • The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner • (2016) • poem by Adam Bolivar
• 81 • The Starlet Who Married a Monster • (2016) • poem by Robert Borski
• 82 • The Great Unknown • (2016) • poem by Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti
• 86 • Legend of the Albino Pythons and the Bloody Child • (2016) • poem by Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti
• 88 • The Blind Elephants of Io • (2016) • poem by Karen Bovenmyer
• 90 • Dame Evergreen • (2016) • poem by Rebecca Buchanan
• 91 • The Death of the Horse • (2016) • poem by Beth Cato
• 93 • Morning During Migration Season • (2016) • poem by Beth Cato
• 95 • In Defence of Science • (2016) • poem by David Clink
• 96 • Surviving a Canadian Poem • (2016) • poem by David Clink
• 99 • The Poem Gardens of the Ascari • (2016) • poem by Rohinton Daruwala
• 100 • Storm Miners • (2016) • poem by Deborah L. Davitt
• 102 • Data Mine • (2016) • poem by Alexandra Erin
• 105 • The Chinese Pirate Ching Shih Plays Go with a Hooded Opponent • (2016) • poem by Kendall Evans
• 108 • Luminous Decay • [Mutant Rain Forest] • (2016) • poem by Robert Frazier
• 110 • little stomach • (2016) • poem by Charlotte Geater
• 113 • Rose Child • (2016) • poem by Theodora Goss
• 116 • Elegy for Iain Banks • (2016) • poem by Vince Gotera
• 117 • The Dark Lord's Diary • (2016) • poem by Lee S. Hawke
• 119 • Talk to the Machines • (2016) • poem by
  Johan Jönsson^?Johan Jonsson
  Johan Joensson
  (trans. of Talk to the Machines)
• 120 • Cobblestone Dragon • (2016) • poem by Herb Kauderer
• 124 • phoenix fire, tabula rasa • (2016) • poem by Kim Eun-byeol
• 126 • Väinämöinen Sings • (2016) • poem by Jennifer Lawrence
• 127 • First Lesson • (2016) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 129 • Not Like This • (2016) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 131 • Im Wald • (2016) • poem by Sandi Leibowitz
• 134 • The Journeymaker to Keddar (II) • (2016) • poem by Rose Lemberg
• 135 • Interview with a 22nd-Century Sex Worker • (2016) • poem by Darren Lipman
• 137 • The Lies You Learned • (2016) • poem by S. Qiouyi Lu
• 140 • Adam's Rendezvous with Dante • (2016) • poem by John C. Mannone
• 142 • Getting Winterized: A Guide to Rural Living • (2016) • poem by Elizabeth R. McClellan
• 146 • god-date • (2016) • poem by Brandon O'Brien
• 148 • Sargasso Sea • (2016) • poem by Adrienne J. Odasso [as by A. J. Odasso]
• 150 • Werewolf • (2016) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 152 • Alice-Ecila • (2016) • poem by Steph Post
• 155 • At Issue, the Miramo • (2016) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 156 • The Robot by the Fireplace • (2016) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 157 • We Shall Meet in the Star-Spackled Ruins • (2016) • poem by Wendy Rathbone
• 161 • The Butterflies of Traxl IV • (2016) • poem by John Reinhart
• 163 • To the weaver, from the woman who slew Bakunawa • (2016) • poem by M. Sereno
• 168 • The Inconceivable Shape • (2016) • poem by Simon Smith
• 178 • The Leviathans of Europa • (2016) • poem by Christina Sng
• 181 • Defender Prime • (2016) • poem by A. C. Spahn
• 183 • WERE- • (2016) • poem by Naru Dames Sundar
• 185 • I Will Be Your Grave • (2016) • poem by Tlotlo Tsamaase
• 187 • When Coyote Called Down the Stars • (2016) • poem by Aaron Vlek
• 188 • For Lonnie • (2016) • poem by Holly Lyn Walrath [as by Holly Walrath]
• 190 • Revolution • poem by Holly Lyn Walrath (variant of Revolution (1764-1783) 2016)
• 191 • Best Of • (2016) • poem by Sarah Ann Winn
• 193 • Thirteen Ways to See a Ghost • (2016) • poem by Shannon Connor Winward