We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.—Eric Hoffer

Thaumatrope is a twitter fiction magazine for
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror fiction
under 140 characters—edited by @nelilly.

stories

Dec 23, 2009

Forms lie quiescent on bare yard, waiting for life to be breathed into them. The golems of Christmas past, resurrected every year.

Dec 24, 2009

The dreidel wobbled, fell. Gimel. “Winner takes all,” she said. Leveled her pistol at the man. “Hand over the blueprints; no one gets hurt.”

Dec 25, 2009

Facedown on cobblestones, Jack felt the power building inside as the boys jeered. Unleash it now and they’d never see another Christmas.