“Atomic Chess” by Josh Pearce – 2.6
Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 Set during the Cold War, “Atomic Chess” weaves together two parallel narratives — one aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine, the other in a Havana café…
Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 Set during the Cold War, “Atomic Chess” weaves together two parallel narratives — one aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine, the other in a Havana café…
Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 The story is narrated by an unnamed woman living in Los Angeles who observes, with skeptical detachment, the unraveling of her childhood friend Jenn Ryan.…
Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 Gary Wittkow, a teenager with a petty criminal record, wakes up in a sheriff’s holding cell babbling in what turns out to be Old English,…
Augur Literary Society, #8.3 November 2025 In an unnamed mountain town bordered by dense forest, a class of second graders is supernaturally summoned into the woods during recess. The forest…
Apex, February 2026 A group of friends — the unnamed narrator, Agnes, Peter, Lina, and Jin — are vacationing on a remote Japanese island known for its sea turtles, staying…
Apex, February 2026 In a dystopian reimagining of the Hundred Acre Wood, Piglet is a long-haul trucker employed by Kanga Corp, the corporate empire that Kanga has built in the…
Apex, February 2026 Sam is a competitive climber who lost their left arm in a factory accident — distracted by a voice note from their partner Abithe while initiating a…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 On the second anniversary of a storm that claimed her son Gunter, his wife Liesel, and their two young boys Rolf and Willi, elderly Gerda…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 In the aftermath of a world-altering catastrophe called the Sundering—a cataclysm that swallowed cities into the sea and scattered families across the northlands—Sigrun, a young…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 The story concludes the two-part novella following Lande, a young mountain-touched mechanic working at an Outranger-controlled dreamstone mine deep in the veil — a liminal…