How do we understand beauty in a world where women sacrifice ourselves at its alter, while in Sufism, the Divine’s feminine face is Beauty? Most of us expect to see beauty displayed every day, or we’re expected to display it… and if we don’t, or in fact dare to show…

Aya awoke with a start, her heart pounding. How had she fallen asleep? The clock read 5:05 AM in glowing red numbers. Everyone else was probably passed out by now. She hoped so. She needed them to be, so she could escape unnoticed. Barely daring to breathe, she slid out…

By Artemysia-X Inelt turns to her twin brother, her gentle rainbow eyes glow in the darkness of heaven’s canopy. It is a beautiful night, and the two are perched on the edge of the world looking down at the dance of the human kaleidoscope below, their most beloved view. “Do…

They gave her the name Violet Pushing up through the Snow in the Spring, and she gave them hope. The year she was born, their group had been pushed north from their winter lands early. A new group had moved in and did not want to share the Abundance. …

In the town shshshsh, a town hidden between places, lives the Collector of Broken Dreams. Her name is Elda, and each night, she trudges past homes, collecting the dreams heaped in broken pieces on doorsteps and under windowsills. She picks them up and places them carefully in her wooden handcart. …

Our greatest existential threat is no longer primarily the tribe or city-state next door, but rather the collective problems we must learn to solve together. Our previous existential threat (the “Other”) created the foundational worldview or conceptual mappa mundi that currently encodes our consciousness, but this worldview is failing us…

(Trigger warning: sexual abuse, sexual slavery, abuse of children) “Stop staring out the window, Una,” Lara-6 said with a slight hiss. She could never keep a hiss out of her voice when she was nervous or annoyed. …

Have you heard about Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a microchip technology being tested in the brains of monkeys? Recently, a monkey successfully played a game of pong with his brain, alone. While the possible implications, both amazing and terrifying, of this technology are perhaps infinite, one has really caught my imagination…