PseudoPod 318: Venice Burning
Venice Burning
by A.C. Wise
A floating city, a sinking city, a drowned city; there isn’t much difference, really.
When R’lyeh rose, it rose everywhere, _everywhen_. Threads spiral out, stitching past to present to future. There are ways to walk between, if you’re willing to lose a part of yourself. Most people aren’t; it’s my specialty.
I stand on a pier, eyes shaded against the water’s glare. It’s 2015, by the smell – diesel and cooked meat, early enough that such things still exist. It might as well be 2017, or 3051. But this year is where my client is, so I wait, sweating inside a black, leather jacket, watching slick weeds stir below lapping waves.
About the Author
A.C. Wise
A.C. Wise’s latest publications are the novellas Grackle, and Out of the Drowning Deep. She is also the author of the novels Wendy, Darling, and Hooked, and the short story collection, The Ghost Sequences, among other works. She’s won the Sunburst Award, and been a finalist for the Nebula, Stoker, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Aurora, Shirley Jackson, Ignyte, and Lambda Literary Awards. Along with her fiction, she contributes regular review columns to Locus and Apex Magazine.
About the Narrator
Ben Phillips
Ben Phillips is a programmer and musician living in New Orleans. He was a chief editor of Pseudopod from 2006-2010. He occasionally writes & records songs as Painful Reminder.
