We’d always get together before going under ice, and though most of us had done it a dozen times or more, hypersleep still made plenty of us anxious. To relax o...
There is no princess waiting to be saved. There are no rings, rupees, or coins to collect along the way. There is no prize money. No cheerful celebration. No fu...
Ambiguity excites me when it comes to would-be lovers, any old stranger who happens to pass close enough to touch, sometimes smell, but not to pinpoin...
It’s that time of year again, when I walk to the film closet and blow off the dust of twelve months. I’m working my way through my Kubrick collection, typically...
Mario was a regular, self-employed plumber with Italian roots, an amusing, high voice, and a ludicrous mustache that somehow worked, lent just enough man to his...
On the third day of rain, I decided to buy a kayak. The water outside was only ankle-deep, but the weather forecast said there’d be ten more days of t...
Chantal knew that when Astral Projections, her local cinema, decided to showcase a Shrek event, an overnight, back to back to back to back showing of Shrek, Shr...
In Jurassic Park, when Jeff Goldblum takes Laura Dern’s hand into his own, he deposits a droplet from his drink into the groove of her knuckles --an exchange of...
When my wife and I considered a name for our son, deliberating between the traditional, the lyrical, the new age unique, we ultimately decided on Finn one week ...
Ivy awakens, sudden and ungentle, to stretch, yawn, and slap at her phone, a haphazard attempt to quell the 6 a.m. alarm she had forgotten to disable the night ...
As I stood in the path of Neptune’s wrath, stared into the wide, angry eyes of the end of the world, such unlikely things popped into my mind. Scenes from movie...
A handsome, heartthrob archaeologist flashes a million-dollar smile, flashes a lightning-quick whip, flashes well-tanned pectorals in the gap of his buttoned-do...
James Callan is the author of the novels Anthophile (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) and A Transcendental Habit (Queer Space, 2023). His fiction has appeared in Apocalypse Confidential, BULL, X-R-A-Y, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Mystery Tribune, and elsewhere. He lives on the Kāpiti Coast, Aotearoa New Zealand.