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Best Practices for Time Travel

Best Practices for Time Travel

Doretta Lau is Room’s 2016 fiction contest judge. Who better than the judge herself to inspire you to get working on your contest entry? Read Lau's short story “Best Practices for Time Travel” below, from Room 38.3. Don't forget! The fiction contest closes July 15....

I Can’t Be the Only One

I Can’t Be the Only One

who secretly thrilled to Ursula who shared her envy of that underwater voice and wanted nothing more who secretly thrilled to Ursula who shared her envy of that underwater voice and wanted nothing more than to throat it. To swallow. To use it however we liked. We, the...

Ruins of Pompeii, or Ancestry

Ruins of Pompeii, or Ancestry

Not whole, the way we know them now, but fragmentary hollow skeletals that seal the human or reveal what it once was. Breath stolen by volcanic gas and corpses dressed in ashes. An imprint of dust upon the body, or the body onto dust. Excavators filled the distance...