2025
Winter 2025
Borders
“He’s dead. They all are.”
Fugee Bubble
“Once the blog-newsies get hold of the story, he’ll be a meme hero.”
Girlfriend of Steel
“Do you ever worry that you’ll never be happy?”
Interview with ‘Obsolescence’ Writer Rose Maxwell
After the Storm editor, Alex Mell-Taylor, chats with writer Rose Maxwell about their hope punk story.
Obsolescence
“Just remember that your staying with me is contingent on you not killing me.”
You Can Take the Girl Out of the Clouds
“Always a pleasure doing business with you, Clem.”
What Does The Future of Reproductive Health Look Like? Ft Activist Adele Blow
Alex Mell-Taylor talks with the fabulous Adele Blow, who is part of the Reproductive Justice campaign.
Spring 2025
Children of Mitzvah
“Can you blame them with all the wars and terrorism down there? The racism and genderism, and all the other phobias and prejudices?”
No Gentle Death
“I slunk through the shadows of Wellspring like I hadn’t been the goddamn mayor of this town for twenty years.”
The Sludge
“Well, first off, we gotta call it by its proper name.”
The Wall!
“For the Wall is all I’ve known, as all there will be. Revolutionary dreams were espoused by the foolish, the idealist.”
Summer 2025
Beora
“…the legend said that where she stepped, the flowers grew.”
Interview with ‘Children of Mitzvah’ Writer Su J. Sokol
An interview with speculative author Su J. Sokol
Join with me tomorrow
“It’s a choker, you sometimes think. Not a crown.”
Rainmaker
“With that, she’s gone. Kind-hearted Valerie, risking herself for a man she had never met, who certainly did nothing to deserve such selfless heroism.”
Returning
“Mother Thalassic was the only home I’d known. I was born on this rig to Sally.”
The Last Seed Library
“One grain is a lifetime, one revolution.”
Troubleshooting in 2200
“That man from Robots United for Freedom called me four times. The first two times, I hung up.”
What’s Left After Release
“Folks forgot that punishment isn’t justice, that cages don’t keep out pain.”
When the Sky Returned
“Sometimes I get asked what the hardest part of this new world is.”
Fall 2025
Anti-Zionist Blues
Jian grapples with anxiety and friendship dynamics in a tense environment marked by surveillance, personal struggles, and unexpected violence in East Brunswick.
Numb
Tony, a struggling pet sitter, discovers his asexuality while navigating adult entertainment.
Oathbreakers of New Makassar
“Why didn’t the southern resistance fire back?”
On Wildfire
In year 2353, Mish Gajewski reflects on her return to the Ribbon, facing spires representing past tragedy during the Wildfire celebration, intertwining personal and collective memory of eco-restoration.
The Last Receipt
Nathan Velasquez, once a billionaire, finds redemption through community-focused initiatives after realizing the toll of his capitalist success.
2024
Winter 2024
Admission
The human superpower is humility.
Bone Rush: Chapter Eight
“Do you still know the way to yesterEarth?”
Digital Rights
…with added sophistication had come sentience…and sentience brought complications.
In the Wake of Alpha-HQ9
I’m ready,” Enna announced. “I’ve remembered enough.”
The Lights of Consciousness
“What if I don’t want to go?”
Spring 2024
Paris
And I had wings of eagles and angels, and I stood in the middle of the sun, and I felt the air of the heavens and landed in the city of Paris.
Reimagining Society at the Edge of Sickness and Travel
In helping travelers and vulnerable people, we help ourselves by creating a world of true safety and freedom — a world where, wherever you go, you are not left to fend for yourself.
Six Deaths at the Mound of Eden
Five went up the hill.
Summer 2024
Anticapitalism in the Real World
The fundamental transformation of the systems of today is our precondition for thinking about tomorrow.
Audubon Ballroom
“Instantly, his heart clenched. His entire body grew rigid like he’d been suddenly aware of a bear next to him.”
Joyride
“The day ebbs away, the stark morning light fizzling into yellow embers in the afternoon.”
Hagiography
A play about the political implications surrounding a bench.
Hard Times, Nevada
“The man who called himself Sam Cornwall walked along the street.”
The Desecration of City Hall
“Whatever the case, was it really worth it? All that effort? Is a paint job that important?’’
The Ferryman
“But then again, Norah thought, Perhaps the report he issued was just a lie.”
Trouble in Águas Claras
It was not difficult to imagine that people on land would be inclined to seek refuge underwater. However, underwater colonies remained mostly hidden from those on land.
What Might the Future of Intentional Housing Looking Like?
Alex Mell-Taylor of After the Storm Magazine recently sat down with members of intentional communities.
Fall 2024
A Good Feeling About This
A story about galaxies far, far away (and one closer to home)
C2CAM Time Travel
A play about time travel.
Dreamfish
“Ilya, do you ever dream about the Leviathans?”
Into the Silence
“It occurred to Anton that some unintended primal need had slipped through their programming.”
2023
Borderlands
“…Juliana finally asked if he still thought being a journalist was useful.”
Inherit the Sea
“Into a world that they had just decided to change completely.”
Phoenix
“Her mind kept coming back to the problem that she’d obsessed over in her free moments for weeks.”
Pride and Joy
“Are you my mommy?”
Sic Transit
“Yeah, sure,” Borenstein muttered, sipping his margarita as outside, another bus whirred past.
What Will the Future of Housing Policy Look Like? (ft. Stomp Out Slumlord’s Katlyn Cotton)
Founder Alex Mell-Taylor chats with Katlyn Cotton, a DSA activist and tenant rights organizer.
Joolie and Irdl
He loved her. He loved her more than anything, and he’d keep his pollinators sheathed forever.
Bone Rush: Chapter One
“Skeletons. F@#king skyscraper-sized skeletons. All over the place.”
String of Lies
“We don’t have much time then.”
The Future of Energy Policy (Ft. We Power’s Tom McBrien)
An interview about public utilities, optimism, and power
Bone Rush: Chapter Two
“Everyone else looked to the sky. Kady seemed worried. Neto seemed hopeful.”
The Prodigy’s Spouse
“We have known for many generations that outside people exist, haven’t we? Eventually, they were going to come.”
This Is Your Last Day in America
“If Arkansas was calling, then more jets were likely on the way.”
Bone Rush: Chapter Three
The obvious agony of their deaths was one thing; the fact that no one had bothered - or been able - to bury them was another.
The Paintings of Archmage George Washington: An Audio Tour!
If you were going to see George Washington, you had to listen to the audio tour, or there was simply no point.
The Liar of Freehold
He was like a scorpion you found in your boot; by the time you realized it was there, too late. Damage done.
Bone Rush: Chapter Four
“You didn’t have to hurt her,” Desmond growled. “We could have done this peacefully.”
Unresolved
Constantly thinking about the meaning of life as a tsunami crashes over you isn’t always the sensible step.
Bone Rush: Chapter Five
She wasn’t surprised that the stranger seemed secretive and generally odd - hermits tended to be both.
Armed and Dangerous
“Are these real guns, or is he some sort of bodybuilder?”
What will the socialist future of journalism look like?
After the Storm interviews the Blade’s Michael Key about the current challenges, and future potential, of journalism
Bone Rush: Chapter Six
The surprises kept coming.
Dupras
So this is falling for someone, she found herself thinking idly, bemusedly, but once she’d thought it, she couldn’t unthink it.
What Would A Police-Free Future Look Like?
The revolution will not be message-tested
Bone Rush: Chapter Seven
“You should hurry. They’ll be beyond your optimal range in ten seconds.”
2022
Regeneration
“The walls of his house are breaking down. He doesn’t care.”
Interview with Artist Camila Tapia-Guilliams about Their Show ‘Alternative Universe: Visualizing…
“…portraying the struggle ahead of us, but with hope and motivation”
The Flipped World
“That night, James put his plan into action.”
The Oldboys Club
“May the future belong to us!”
Democracy 3.0
It was the main lesson their ancestors had passed down to them: after The Fall, get back up.
Sunlight
“I just wanted to make food,” Lou said. “You’re the one who made it into something more.”
Which Way the Wind Blows
“Not long ago, the wind was blowing from that direction,” he said aloud to himself, looking to his right. Then he glanced left, adding, “Now it’s coming from over there.”
Flowers in the Mud
“To an outsider, it might have looked like any of a dozen other piles, but Kwakú’s experienced eyes were already picking out little pieces of treasure, things the older men ignored.”
How to Make Non-Capitalist Art While Still Existing Inside Capitalism (w/ Claire Alrich)
How do you create communities without hierarchies when those hierarchies are pressing down all around you and limiting your time, resources, and energy?
Thoughts on Queer Liberation & Other Radical Concepts (w/ Marie Lewis)
Capitalism, Abortion Rights & Queer Rights
Sparrow
“…predictable or not, your choices are yours and no one else’s.”
Can’t Let It Fester
“…he swallowed, and touched his jaw. It still throbbed but at least his teeth were intact.”
Remember the Revolution
“It seems we are in the middle of a full-scale attack on the government.”
The Oldboys March!
“…twenty years ago today, our spiritual forefathers gathered upon this spot to protest a horrible injustice”
The Visible Hand
What risks are we willing to take to mitigate climate change?
I Will Sell These Bibles Today
“It takes faith to sell Bibles, son,” she says slowly.
“Try as Many Things as Possible” (ft. Abel Amene).
Activist Abel Amene’s Advice on Building a Better Future
Is It Possible To Make Conservatism Not So F@cking Awful?
Republicans, Outer space, environmentalism, and anti-colonialism
2021
A Socialist Approach to Disaster Preparedness
A Leftist guide for the coming catastrophes.
Can We Abolish the Police Without Abolishing the U.S. Government?
Now the perpetrator has been convicted, but what happens next?
There Are No Billionaires In Star Trek’s Federation
The rich would not be allowed into Star Trek’s utopia
An Exhausted World
And the worst part of it all was, they were noble causes. They both were. Shining, brilliant, unselfish.
Against Pessimism: Coming to Terms with Oblivion
“The major thing to remember is that the lingering pessimism that serves to erode our movements and our sense of self, a pessimism generated by conditions under capital, is not unique to us or to our moment.”