Readers of Aimee Bender’s short fiction have come to expect the extraordinary—whether it’s a tale’s surprising premise or its masterful conclusions, Bender rarely disappoints. In her latest, she ...

Shacknews last went hands-on with 13AM's multiplayer racer Runbow back at last year's IndieCade and had a blast competing with eight other players to see who could rack up the most victories. That ...

In Leonora Carrington’s 1938 short-story masterpiece “The Debutante,” a young woman wants to disobey her mother’s orders to go to a debutante ball, so she asks a hyena she has befriended to go in her ...

We gathered in a circle in the side room and talked about mirrors, and still water, and wells, and feeling understood, and opals, and then we did a creative-writing exercise about our first memory of ...

Aimee Bender’s stories lean to the surreal. Her subjects, often inhabiting surroundings drawn from the fantastic, are porous: They absorb their environment while living at its mercy. These disparate ...