
Carolyn Ives Gilman | On the Shores of Ligeia
Seth Calder felt like he had barely dozed off when his alarm blared at 6:00 a.m. Level morning sunlight leaked through the blinds onto the birch and linen furniture of his Stockholm apartment. Amalia ...
14 Mars 201949min

Maria Romasco-Moore | Self-Storage Starts with the Heart
You’ll notice how the commercials never mention the price. They’ve all got some lab-coated guy with chiseled cheekbones spouting dumbed-down drivel about how emotions have wavelengths, the same as lig...
7 Mars 201940min

Carrie Vaughn | Marlowe and Harry and the Disinclined Laboratory
Lieutenant James Marlowe watched a room full of grown, distinguished men act like young ladies at their first ball. Flustered, fidgeting, adjusting each others’ cravats, going back and forth from one ...
28 Feb 201942min

Ashok K. Banker | The Terrible Oath
The nation greeted Vrath with great warmth and approval. The Burnt Empire regarded its liege as nothing less than a demi-god; in a sense, this was not far from the truth: Whether or not the Krushan dy...
21 Feb 20191h 35min

KT Bryski | Ti-Jean’s Last Adventure, as Told to Raccoon
Okay. So. There’s a time when I’m looking for Coyote, because I need to tell him this story. So, I walk the St. Lawrence River from one end to the other, and I cannot find him. Check the Rockies---he ...
14 Feb 201924min

Matthew Baker | Life Sentence
Home. He recognizes the name of the street. But he doesn’t remember the landscape. He recognizes the address on the mailbox. But he doesn’t remember the house. His family is waiting for him on the por...
7 Feb 20191h 5min

Meg Elison | Endor House
Meet Hermes Maleficarum, the reclusive force behind the multiverse’s biggest publishing house. A mystery generations in the making. The first thing I notice about Hermes was how unlike the rest of his...
24 Jan 201922min

Tony Ballantyne | Midway
It’s not unusual to hear music in a spaceport arrival lounge. After all, if aliens didn’t enjoy music, I’d never have been able to travel. But this sounded familiar. Disturbingly familiar. Standing in...
17 Jan 201936min





















