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Fiction: A close encounter with an inbound object.
Mar 18 • JS June
It's not rlly a war tho is it?
An unemployed young man briefly considers his world.
Mar 13 • Griffin Del Prete
S2E1 - Back in Black
John Gu, Tasbeeh Herwees, and Russell Sprout kick the season off talking to Cairo and Lillian about alt lit and litstack developments.
Mar 11 • Cairo Smith, Lillian Wang Selonick, John Gu, tasbeeh herwees, and Russell Sprout
1:35:15
The Acorn and the Twigs
A review of J David Osborne’s new novella, Berserker Club.
Mar 6 • W. G. Lloyd

February 2026

The Censor and His Writer
Fiction: An author is investigated.
Feb 24 • Hyun Woo Kim
A Horny Unkillable Shadow
How Worst Boyfriend Ever’s success was inevitable.
Feb 18 • km
Scene Report from Echo Park
Or, Ross Barkan and the Performative Bell Jar
Feb 14 • Cairo Smith
Imperial Flower Nails & Beauty
Fiction: A boy watches his mother at work.
Feb 4 • Lillian Wang Selonick

January 2026

The Zoltar Scene from the Film Big
Fiction: A remix about an uncanny machine.
Jan 16 • Keith Vile
Burn Zone
Fiction: The first chapter of the new novella from Cairo Smith.
Jan 3 • Cairo Smith
Google Maps Tourism
Fiction: A runaway daydream.
Jan 1 • Grace Forrester-Young

December 2025

State of the Journal V
News and reflections on Futurist Letters.
Dec 21, 2025 • Cairo Smith
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