David Rogers' work has appeared or is forthcoming in various
publications, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Star*Line,
and Daily Science Fiction. His poem "Stone" was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize. His novel The Delphi is forthcoming from
Ellipsis Imprints (Durham, England), summer 2024. More at
Davidrogersbooks.wordpress.com.
My story "Innocent," pub'd in Inwood, Indiana's Fallow Ground issue and Teach. Write. Innocent by David Rogers If I say I was innocent of the crime for which I…
You cannot tell how many lamps bottles coffee mugs jars vases are home to genies the ones who have learned to stay inside when the endless knocking begins The requirement…
Read "Shadow of the Wheel" here--or on Page and Spine: https://www.pagespineficshowcase.com/david-rogers.html or hear it read, here: https://visionswithvoices.com/davidsum2019/index.html#shadowtext Shadow of the Wheel by David Rogers They say you can’t breathe the…
Both could have painted pictures of UFOs but Monet's would have flown better in skies lurid with post-watercolor neo-expressionist pastels over crumbling cubist skyscrapers where nude aliens depart in flying…
Gojira You don’t need translations in Gojira the original Japanese story of Godzilla to know it won’t matter how large Tokyo is when the monster wades from the ocean Even…
PYTHAGORAS He announces he’s created a new theorem his first in over twenty centuries It concerns the measurement of triangles in eleven-dimensional space The idea makes headlines but the reporters…
SOMETHING There’s something in the woods the same thing that hides in the closet under the bed in shadows behind old houses among weeds and empty bottles in abandoned city…
When the gods planned the universes, they said, Let’s make this one big and put tiny things in it. They’ll feel lost, and worship us. But someone pointed out the…
by David Rogers You fill out no applicationthere’s not even a form for thatno need to work miraclesor do anything very remarkableHeroics are strictly optionalTake Achilles for examplehis main accomplishmentwas…