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short story
The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener
Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic || After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera from the “old world” times finds his life upended by an orphaned girl. . .
The Passing of the Dragon
Urban Fantasy || A woman who fears she’s failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her favorite poets and finds something even more wondrous, but also more impossible to capture on canvas…
Read “The Price of Rye”— A Horror Story Set in the World of Alex Grecian’s Red Rabbit
The Job at the End of the World
Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic || A weary resilience worker should know better than anyone: no one is safe when the world is always ending...
The Three O’Clock Dragon
Urban Fantasy || Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing dragon and her unconventional platform...
Read an Excerpt From Never Whistle at Night, an Anthology of Indigenous Fiction
Collection and Anthologies, Horror || Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night.
Headhunting
Dark Fantasy || A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a cathedral--but why would someone want it?
What It Means to Be a Car
Dystopian || An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt…
The City Born Great
Fantasy || To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin. New York City is about to go through a few changes. Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.
Blood Is Another Word for Hunger
Dark Fantasy || To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger.” Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the spirit world is shaken.
Detonation Boulevard
Science Fiction || In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, all while dodging the competition, fatigue, and violent lava geysers—there’s only one way Cat knows how to win: Just drive.
Ceffo
Contemporary Fantasy || On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a secret that could change her life…
After the Animal Flesh Beings
Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic || A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with the meaning of life…after all life ceases to exist.
The Star-Bear
Fantasy || A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda...