Kim Stanley Robinson | Our Town
I found my friend Desmond Kean at the northeast corner of the penthouse viewing terrace, assembling a telescope with which to look at the world below. He took a metal cylinder holding a lens and screw...
24 Apr 201224min
Eric Gregory | The Sympathy
The apartment was in his name, and the Accord was in hers. It took Lauren less than a minute to step out one door and into the other. She put her suitcase in the floorboard and her laptop bag in the p...
17 Apr 20121h 3min
Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Steam Dancer (1896)
Missouri Banks lives in the great smoky city at the edge of the mountains, here where the endless yellow prairie laps gently with grassy waves and locust tides at the exposed bones of the world juttin...
10 Apr 201237min
Vandana Singh | Ruminations in an Alien Tongue
Sitting on the sun-warmed step at the end of her workday, Birha laid her hand on the dog’s neck and let her mind drift. Like a gyre-moth finding the center of its desire, her mind inevitably spiraled ...
3 Apr 201252min
Steven Utley | Test
Something is eating the starship Stephen W. Hawking, chewing it slowly and efficiently to pieces. Hurtling through hyperspace, or merely hanging suspended therein (who can really tell about hyperspace...
27 Mars 201228min
David Barr Kirtley | Beauty
Nicole Sanders was beautiful. One night after work, she stopped off at a bar downtown, which is where she met the beast. “Hi,” the beast said, in a gentle voice. “Can I buy you a drink?” Narrated by J...
20 Mars 201218min
Kathleen Ann Goonan | Electric Rains
Ella sat by Nana’s body for two days before she pushed it out the window. She had spent the first half-day realizing what death was, the next half-day grieving, the following morning waking and feelin...
20 Mars 201245min
Mary Rosenblum | My She
I wait outside the speaking chamber, where the young Speakers learn to Hear and Speak. The walls and carpeted floor are purest white, the color of this God place and the Speakers who live here walk by...
13 Mars 201246min
