Plugs

Ken Brady’s latest story, “Walkers of the Deep Blue Sea and Sky” appears in the Exquisite Corpuscle anthology, edited by Jay Lake and Frank Wu.

Luc Reid writes about the psychology of habits at The Willpower Engine. His new eBook is Bam! 172 Hellaciously Quick Stories.

Kat Beyer’s Cabal story “A Change In Government” has been nominated for a BSFA award for best short fiction.

Susannah Mandel’s short story “The Monkey and the Butterfly” is in Shimmer #11. She also has poems in the current issues of Sybil’s Garage, Goblin Fruit, and Peter Parasol.

Toe Testing Time

by David

The farm has done much better since we started growing baby heads. They’ll grow anywhere, but more sunlight makes them grow faster. The plants set more fruit, and we can take the heads to market sooner. They spend less time in the babbling stage and Marie, well, that part drives her crazy. My favorite part is harvesting. They say the strangest things. Stuff like “midnight’s noon/and noon midnight/bright flash of darkness comes.” I write the good ones down. I figure I’ll publish them, be famous someday.

One winter we nearly ran out of food. All we had left in the cellar were some heads rejected by the conglomerate the previous fall. We’d already put them in the back room, they made such a racket. You wouldn’t believe the language they used when we dumped them into the hot water.

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One Response to “Toe Testing Time”

  1. David Says:

    January 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    I apologize in advance if anyone is disgusted. Let me stress that these are plants.