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Out Now: ‘Cardinal Sin’ & Other Stories From Our New Issue – After The Storm Magazine
Are you ready to wander the branches of the afterlife with a soul finding purpose in the quiet humor of death? To fight for breath beside two exiles in the burning wreckage of an alien world? To face a creeping, deadly freeze in the lonely corridors of deep space, or sit with a father and…
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Cardinal Sin
by Andrew K. Langley It started with death. My last day as a human on Earth was largely uneventful. Death, in its totality, was no surprise. My family gathered by my bedside as my belabored breathing ceased. My two daughters, their adequate husbands, even the one I always assumed was gay, were all crying their…
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Cast Out
By Michael J. D’Alfonsi The Cobra VII’s control deck flickered like a dying heartbeat, bathing The Man and The Woman in waves of sickly amber light. Sweat beaded on The Man’s forehead as his fingers danced across the navigation console, each command met with an obstinate error message or, worse, no response at all. The…
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Rest Warm
by Lancelot Schaubert “Mert,” her boss called. Meredith muttered under her breath, pouted, and sulked as she peeled her eyes away from the screen. Lightyears from their homeworld, and still they depended on spreadsheets and spare parts bought from the lowest bidder. She absent-mindedly fidgeted through all of it on her quick keys. “Mert.” Her…
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The Magic Apple
By Andrew James Woodyard The replicator sat next to the only window in the habitat. Outside was nothing but a foggy orange haze and lifeless rocks, where freezing-cold carbon dioxide rain fell. Inside the replicator, a ceramic bowl was slowly filled with steaming-hot mechanically engineered chicken soup with matzo balls, manufactured by laser light. Ivan…
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The Science of Transient Cartography
Some maps have sharp and unforgiving lines, and others all the gentle curves of a summer leaf stirring in a plaintive breeze. Some maps recall what is, or what was, and others imagine what could be.
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Shared Time Without Receipt
“We are not staying,” I replied. “We are being.”
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The Four-Color Pantheon
If humanity ever recovers sufficiently to re-build cities, I recommend we avoid naming districts things like “Gotham” or “Metropolis.”
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Orlanda
“So I am in a category containing exactly one. Formerly female bio and a disaster at that, and now male, sort of, at least on the outside, and trying not be a disaster at that.”
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Shorthand
“Bookpearls are physical manifestations of humanity’s most original, profound topics, and they’re appraised and valued accordingly.”
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We Are Looking For Volunteers
Are you ready to be part of a movement rewriting the future? After The Storm Magazine invites activists and dreamers who believe in breaking down systems of oppression to join us in solidarity. We need editors, social media storytellers, website aficionados, and governance warriors to help build a platform that imagines worlds beyond patriarchy, capitalism,…
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After The Storm: Summer 2025 Edition
Come read the futures we’re dreaming of.
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What’s Left After Release
“Folks forgot that punishment isn’t justice, that cages don’t keep out pain.”
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The Last Seed Library
“One grain is a lifetime, one revolution.”
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When the Sky Returned
“Sometimes I get asked what the hardest part of this new world is.”
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Join with me tomorrow
“It’s a choker, you sometimes think. Not a crown.”