Gendrome is a new novel by Daniel A. Kaufman, illustrated by Mariah Gregg-Fling. It imagines a world that is adjacent to, but not quite our own. Cathode Ray Zone is pleased to present Gendrome in serial form. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did...
“Here?” Courtney pointed at the stairs descending into the Moscow subway. We all peered down. “Does it really matter?” Jeff was impatient. This was the third subway entrance we’d examined, and it was freezing (as Moscow in February at 11pm tends to be). “They just...
“Here?” Courtney pointed at the stairs descending into the Moscow subway. We all peered down. “Does it really matter?” Jeff was impatient. This was the third subway entrance we’d examined, and it was freezing (as Moscow in February at 11pm tends to be). “They just...
“Can you give me a few minutes? I’ve got to dry my hair.” Debbie stood aside as I made my way into the house. She was wearing an oversized Champion sweatshirt and had a towel wrapped around her head like a turban. “Yeah, sure.” I gave her a quick kiss and watched as...
From 1991-1999, I was a graduate student, pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. Now, you might think that this is a long time to seek a graduate degree (most people do it in four or five years), and you’d be right: I stretched the...
“What are you doing here?” It was a Wednesday afternoon, and I was sitting on one of several benches on the ninth floor landing of the New York Graduate Center, which doubled as a lobby for the philosophy department. Dave Stein had just come out of the elevator and...
“Again!” Mr. Sadowski beat his baton on the conductor’s stand. “Until it’s right! I don’t care if it takes all day!” We’d just mangled the Telemann Sinfonia for the third time. Sadowski was bluffing. We had twenty minutes of Music left, before the bell rang, and we...