G.V. Anderson | Waterbirds
Constable Kershaw has not uttered any overrides, nor issued a warrant to access her memory logs, but Celia understands nonetheless that she is expected to stay, to sit and answer his questions like a ...
12 Jul 201854min
James Beamon | A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds
The monkeys are white-faced capuchins. Small things, their lean, black-furred bodies stand in stark contrast to the white tufts of their faces and shoulders. The Russians have cannons that can blast a...
5 Jul 201846min
Emma Törzs | From the Root
When I was sixteen, I sold my teeth each Thursday, and that is how I first met the doctor. This was before his celebrated school, his fame, his dogged pursuit of bodies for his collection, back when h...
28 Jun 201855min
Lina Rather | A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Lighthouse of Quvenle the Seer
Your guidebook says: Do not ask which ships the lighthouse guides. It’s the same old joke everyone makes when they come, and the sisters who care for their prophetess Quvenle will not laugh. The other...
21 Jun 201817min
Ashok K. Banker | The Quiltbag
Octavia was at the last gate when the alarm sounded. A small army of bristling weapons encircled her. The bag shuddered in her grip, panic rippling through its weave. She gripped it tighter, reassurin...
14 Jun 201840min
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | I Sing Against the Silent Sun
In the Principality there rule the Seven Suns. Armored gods, they marched through the universe eons ago, wreathed in subjected angels, and left footprints of conquest on galaxies. They dragged beneath...
7 Jun 20181h 14min
Jane Lindskold | A Green Moon Problem
No one had ever seen Tatter D’MaLeon’s face. Even those who thought she was just a legend agreed that she was always masked. That was about all anyone agreed upon. Although the female pronoun was usua...
24 Mai 201844min
Kodiak Julian | Our Side of the Door
It isn’t until I realize I can’t find my son---really can’t find him---that I think of all the other things I can’t see in the starlit orchard. “Cruz!” I yell. “Buddy! You win!” There is no moon. The ...
17 Mai 201824min
