Story : The Unfinished Amplitude, Part One

From Romeo Esparrago. Part One : The Memory of Spacetime. A wave passes, and the detector does not come back to where it was. It comes back almost. That "almost" is permanent. We call it memory, and it is the most ordinary thing in the universe: everything that has ever happened has left the world … Continue reading Story : The Unfinished Amplitude, Part One →

PSA : Columbia Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con

For fans, readers, and writers (including wannabe writers) of genre fiction–mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal – the Creatures, Crimes, & Creativity Con is the place to meet in an informal atmosphere so that everyone can have fun connecting, and learning about writing, the authors and their books. Doubletree Hilton Hotel, Columbia, MD … Continue reading PSA : Columbia Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con →

Story : Part 1 “A Kiss Before the Feast”

A Rondo Patungan story from Romeo Esparrago. PART 1 OF 2 : THE INVITATION. A Postcard at Lunch, Round Rock 2026 Rondo Patungan was sixty-two and three spoonfuls into his bowl of tinola chicken stew that had a squirt of patis and a squeeze of lemon at Lil Mama’s in Round Rock, Texas, when he … Continue reading Story : Part 1 “A Kiss Before the Feast” →

News : Sabrina’s Celestial Holography: Is Reality Just a Really Good Projection?

The Universe Is Flatter Than You Think. The Cosmos, Now in 2D. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is a Chicago-born theoretical physicist of Cuban and Polish descent. As a teenager she taught herself to build and fly a plane, which makes most of our teenage hobbies look like a rounding error. She went on to finish first … Continue reading News : Sabrina’s Celestial Holography: Is Reality Just a Really Good Projection? →

Story : Detection

Collage: scientists briefed by a radar dome, a soldier in a trench, white pods, a cube splashing into sea near warships

By Romeo Esparrago. The Soviet Union detonates their first atomic test on August 29, 1949. Radioactive particles collected over the skies of Alaska confirm this. President Truman announces this to the world on September 23, 1949. Massachusetts, 1953. John V. “Jack” Herrentown had drawn an aircraft on the blackboard. Beneath it he had drawn a … Continue reading Story : Detection →

Story : No Road Outta Taylor

Collage: an old man and woman at a diner table, a bar signed "Crooked Halo," a dark horse-headed creature, a man roping it

A Rondo Patungan story from Romeo Esparrago Central Texas, January 2026 was sixteen days old when Emma brought her husband’s hat to my kitchen table in Austin while I was eating my bowl of sinigang stew & rice from Lil Mama’s in Round Rock. She put it beside my kalamansi juice and kept her hands … Continue reading Story : No Road Outta Taylor →

Poem : Untouched by Radiation

Collage: a rocket launch, giant brown insects at a porthole above Earth and in a glowing hive, and insects planting on snow

A crown of sonnets from Romeo Esparrago I. Launch We were the first to rise. None came to find us. July of nineteen forty-six: the sand, a captured rocket with the war behind us, a can of fruit, a seal, a giant's hand. The fire bore us up beyond the blue to where the sky gives out, and then was done; the … Continue reading Poem : Untouched by Radiation →

Story : The Clays of Proteus

A probe beams into a huge crater with banded walls on an asteroid ringed by orbits, between a blue planet and a pink moon

from Romeo Esparrago I. Residuals Mara Castellanos found the problem the way most problems are found: by refusing to accept a number that was merely good enough. It was 2031, five years afer the James Webb Space Telescope paper, and the paper was still the most-cited thing ever written about Neptune's inner moons. Everyone knew … Continue reading Story : The Clays of Proteus →