Alone on Fourteen, by A.Y. Tanaka

Chaotic collage of scattered letter tiles and tiny dragons around a computer monitor tilted on a pink diamond shape

Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 21 (March 1999). Illustration: “Patch_code_dragon” by Romeo Esparrago I sipped some Stryne's and squinted at the coded pages sprawled across my desk, scattered alph/math-like characters, almost clear if 45 meant "forty-five" or something else: "truth" or "evidence" or "seventeen" or "delusion." It wasn't my desk, not by law or … Continue reading Alone on Fourteen, by A.Y. Tanaka →

The Nature of the Correspondence, by A.Y. Tanaka

Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 17 (March 1998). Specimen K.3/8: Nothing pauses but [-- Unclear; scholars on probation had spilled coffee mixed with opaque creaming and sweetening agents all over this page of the typescript]. Conferring with travelers and thinkers, I am awed by my ignorance yet not dismayed. [. . .] Moons dance … Continue reading The Nature of the Correspondence, by A.Y. Tanaka →