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short story
Read Alex Irvine’s “Black Friday”
The Touches
Salipa and Telo have perfect lives in the virtual reality world that humanity has retreated to after bacteria and viruses resistant to all medications take over the outside world. But when the robots that take care of their necessities in the dirty outside world start glitching, Salipa must figure out what it means to truly live if they can never return to the outside world.
As the Last I May Know
An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull the trigger.
Water: A History
The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back on Earth. That doesn’t stop one elderly woman from stepping outside the safety of the colony whenever she can for the brief opportunity to fully experience the outside world.
Lev Grossman Is Adapting His Short Story “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” Into a Movie
The Guile
When an AI that monitors casino gambling in Reno taunts a magician by revealing all his tricks, the magician is determined to exact his revenge.
You Know How the Story Goes
Horror || It’s the same old story. Take a chance and pick up a hitchhiker...
A Moment in a Life: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution”
The Library of Lost Things
Fantasy || Welcome to the Library of Lost Things, where the shelves are stuffed with books that have fallen through the cracks—from volumes of lovelorn teenage poetry to famous works of literature long destroyed or lost. They’re all here, pulled from history and watched over by the Librarian, curated by the Collectors, nibbled on by the rats. Filed away, never to be read. At least, until Thomas, the boy with the secret, comes to the Library.
These Deathless Bones
Horror || A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her young stepson.
The Martian Obelisk
Science Fiction || A powerful science fiction story about an architect on Earth commissioned to create (via long distance) a masterwork with materials from the last abandoned Martian colony, a monument that will last thousands of years longer than Earth, which is dying.
The White-Throated Transmigrant
Dark Fantasy, Fantasy || After a bird fatally collides with her car, a troubled young woman's life changes irrevocably.
eyes I dare not meet in dreams
Dark Fantasy, Fantasy || Undead girls begin re-entering the world of the living, emerging from refrigerators.
Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color
Dark Fantasy, Fantasy || Haunted by starlings in the dark, a young woman spirals into an altered state of consciousness.
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