Stories engineered to keep you reading with your shoulders up. Suspense is the craft of the withheld: what the reader fears is coming matters more than what has already happened.
PsychologicalAn astronaut 413 days into her mission has been keeping a secret from Houston: a mysterious light that appears every night at the same time, pulsing in patterns she's learned to answer back.
GothicA paleographer cataloging sealed manuscripts in the Vatican basement discovers 300 documents proving that the silence in certain churches can speak the words of the Mass without a priest.
EroticaIn a basement milonga during Argentina's Dirty War, a resistance courier dances tango with an intelligence operative who carries a list of seven people scheduled to disappear.
ActionAn ice analyst survives a helicopter crash in the Arctic and discovers her employer delayed rescue for six hours to retrieve proprietary data from something anomalous beneath the ice.
DramaA solo hiker answers the viral question on camera. Two hours later, the wilderness answers it for her. Flash fiction by Richard Lowe.
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