Water Logs is a quarterly science fiction ezine from paperxpencil® Creative Design Lab, built on the belief that speculative futures are inseparable from the histories that produced them. Every issue collects three short stories arranged as a single thesis: origin, rupture, reclamation, where Black coastal memory, cultural memory, and diaspora history aren't backdrop. They're the machinery the fiction runs on.

Volume 1 spans four issues. New issues arrive every quarter.

ISSUE 2

THE LAST DEAL

Freedom was never free. Somebody signed for it. This is the story of what the signature cost.

OSCENSION

The ocean floor is not a graveyard. It’s a kingdom. And it’s calling one of its own home.

SOURCE CODE

Some inheritance comes in a will. His came in a hum, passed from a cotton field to a kitchen to a boy from Chicago who never knew he was carrying it.