DP FICTION #98B: “Bottled Words” by Carol Scheina
When Dad sent me into the kitchen for a container—any lidded vessel at all—to bottle Grandma’s voice, all I could find were lonely lids. That wasn’t unexpected. When Dad cooked, he turned the bottom of...
View ArticleDP FICTION #99A: “Six Reasons Why Bots Make the Worst Asteroid Miners” by...
1. They think they know everything. Like your twenty years of mining experience is useless compared to a high-acting neural processing drive. Like you’re nothing but a softer, weaker liability, and the...
View ArticleDP FICTION #99B: “Diamondback V. Tunnelrat” by Nick Thomas
Diamondback v. Tunnelrat et. Axeteeth Parish Court of Quan, 3rd District Ignatious P. Fizzlewig, Esq. Presiding Cite as: Diamondback V. Tunnelrat, 245 3rdPar (1107) The case before us concerns...
View ArticleDP Submission Window, and “AI” Writing Policy
written by David Steffen Hello! I know it has been a long time since we were open for submissions, but we are now ready to announce the next submission window. This one will be an unthemed general...
View ArticleDP FICTION #100A: “They Were Wonderful, Once” by Lily Watson
Content note (click for details) Content note: body horror Even by the third hot, sticky day into our road trip, the humans in the back of the transportation trucks remain fascinating. Theoretically,...
View ArticleDP FICTION #100B: “Interstate Mohinis” by M.L. Krishnan
Content note (click for details) Content note: gender-based violence, sexual violence, domestic violence, death In the way of Death runs the Vaitaraṇī river. We are flayed open to its woe. We are...
View ArticleAnnouncement: New Assistant Editor!
written by David Steffen Hello! I am here today to announce a new Diabolical Plots staff member: Chelle Parker! Chelle Parker is a disabled Canadian queerdo with over fifteen years of editing...
View ArticleDP FICTION #101A: “Glass Moon Water” by Linda Niehoff
It’s a Kool-Aid summer. We’ve gone through grape and cherry and fruit punch and blueberry. Even tried dying our hair with them. And for about three days we had pink and blue and purple strands. Didn’t...
View ArticleAnnouncement: New Assistant Editor! (Part 2)
written by David Steffen Hello! I am here today to announce another new Diabolical Plots staff member: Hal Y Zhang! Hal Y. Zhang is a lapsed physicist and international transplant who splits her time...
View ArticleDP FICTION #101B: “The Dryad and the Carpenter” by Samara Auman
Mortals slice us dryads open to count the layers of our lives; it is easier than listening to our stories. They slide their fingers over our rings, thinking that our texture, our shifts in coloration...
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