Present Day Fantasy

Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:40am

Original Fiction

Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy || What should be a simple summer internship in the county morgue is transformed into the most unusual experience of Lia Thantos’s life when she unthinkingly violates ancient protocols and summons Charon, the Ferryman. The dead have never frightened Lia—until now.

The Cockroach Hat

Terry Bisson

Wed May 26, 2010 9:30am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

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Humor, Science Fiction || When Sam Gregory wakes up to find he has turned into a big cockroach, he is understandably dismayed. Luckily, the condition appears to be a little contagious.

The Horrid Glory of Its Wings

Elizabeth Bear

Tue Dec 8, 2009 9:30am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

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Fantasy, Urban Fantasy || There's a harpy with bronze wings living in the dumpster behind Desiree's building. She's ugly and she eats garbage, but she has a little kingdom back there. Desiree wants something of her own, too -- something all hers. Can that foul old thing possibly help her?

Errata

Jeff VanderMeer

Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Liz Gorinsky

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Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy || Perhaps "Errata" is a metafictional narrative about a short story assigned to Jeff VanderMeer (or a fictional version of Jeff VanderMeer) by a now-defunct literary journal (or a fictional version of a now-defunct literary journal) explicitly for the purposes of determining THE FATE OF THE WORLD. Or perhaps it's just a story about a Siberian penguin. It is incumbent upon you, the reader, to decide which stream of reality we are lazily floating along in.