Marcella
In the infinite darkness of space, something ancient and terrible awaits the crew of Marcella. What begins as routine navigation problems escalates into cosmic horror when they discover they've collided not with debris, but with human remains—flesh and bone floating in the void, light-years from any inhabited world.
The ship's sensors reveal a creeping dread: they're surrounded by an invisible graveyard, the scattered remnants of an Earth warship and its crew, preserved in space for nearly three millennia. As Marcella's hull begins failing under mysterious impacts, the crew realizes they're being slowly absorbed into this floating necropolis.
The evidence mounts with each discovery—a fingernail embedded in their plating, radioactive buttons bearing ancient military insignia, organic matter fused with their ship's structure. The dead are claiming the living, piece by piece. In the crushing darkness, past and present merge as the crew faces the terrifying possibility that they too will join the eternal drift of corpses and metal, becoming part of the very graveyard that now hunts them through the merciless void.
El Tiempo Cura las Heridas - Time Heals All Wounds
As Senator Alejandro Ángel Ramos-Alejo lies dying in a New Mexico hospital, watching the January 6th insurrection unfold on television, his mind cycles through the moments that shaped him: the My Lai massacre, his family's history surviving La Matanza, riding a Greyhound to protest Vietnam with underground newspapers. His family's story is America's story from the bottom up—but he chose Washington over the streets, believing he could change the system from within. Now, abandoned by his aide and facing death, he confronts a haunting possibility: was his entire career just another form of extraction?
Blackshot Battalion
"Blackshot Battalion" presents a vision of near-future America where corporate techno-feudalism has
replaced democratic governance, told through the lens of mercenary firefighters navigating both literal
and metaphorical fires. The story explores themes of historical revisionism, corporate control, and the
erosion of collective memory while examining how truth becomes malleable in the hands of those who
control information systems.
Then the crew was running, sprinting as fast as they could under the bulk of gear they carried on their persons. It was only seventy-five, maybe a hundred yards to the dozer-line cut across the ridgeline yesterday and as one the crew surged upwards toward it.
Don’t Walk Into The Meat Grinder
A haunting anti-war prose poem that chronicles the inexorable march of empire, following the journey from distant conflicts to domestic upheaval as "the machine" demands its toll of young lives. Through visceral imagery and prophetic warnings, Daniel Woods crafts a devastating meditation on imperial collapse, generational sacrifice, and the inevitable homecoming of violence.
On The Grind
"On The Grind" is a haunting short story that follows Ferris Hatcher, a family farmer facing the systematic destruction of her livelihood by agricultural conglomerates. Set on a ten-thousand-acre farm, the narrative explores the intersection of economic violence, generational trauma, and corporate consolidation in modern agriculture. Through Ferris's struggle to sell her harvest, Woods weaves a powerful tale connecting contemporary agricultural challenges to the historical cycles of dispossession that began with post-Reconstruction violence against Black farmers in the American South.