By: Kenneth Goldsmith

This sock represents everything I aspire to in the world.

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE DARK IS RISING and PREZ to THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS

By: Joshua Glenn

Greg Bear’s BLOOD MUSIC

By: Christina Couch

Leech convinced villain after villain to give up their evil ways.

By: Joshua Glenn

Movie treatment for GLORY ROAD

By: Matthew Daniel

I look the Martian in the eyes for longer than I should.

By: Joshua Glenn

Adventure terms from CAHOOTS to CWTCH

By: Joshua Glenn

From LAFCADIO’S ADVENTURES and BRANSFORD IN ARCADIA to AT THE EARTH’S CORE

By: Joshua Glenn

Orson Scott Card’s ENDER’S GAME

By: Katya Apekina

I miss living along the Mississippi — the swampy air, the damp earth, that artery of water.

By: Lynn Peril

A bad case of Domestic Hands.

By: Friederike Paetzold

Dreamily greeting you as if from an undersea trench…

By: Ramona Lyons

I’m not into any other “cute” little animal-shaped things.

By: Joshua Glenn

Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE

By: Beth Lisick

It presides over us, thinking it’s in stealth mode.