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Back to Search"Songs of the Sorrow of Thorns" + "A Guide on How to meet the Deity of Many Faces"
This month's Lightspeed Fantasy Short Shots episode features "Songs of the Sorrow of Thorns" by Amayah Perveen (© 2024 by Amayah Perveen), narrated b…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Last Lucid Day
You’re asleep in dreams of your father holding your head underwater, so the call from Magnolia Assisted Living goes to voicemail. | © 2024 by Dominiq…
2 years, 2 months ago
Warning Notes from an Annihilator Machine
Today makes it a decade and a day I have been keeping tabs on you. I started by watching your mother, monitoring all her movements while she housed y…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Weight of Salt
We’ve never been so busy. The cave where we work used to be calm and, if not entirely devoid of sound, then split only by the crash of waves at high …
2 years, 2 months ago
The Help Hotline
The trouble started after my husband reported a strange Zoom call at work. | © 2024 by Dominica Phetteplace. Narrated by Justine Eyre.
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2 years, 2 months ago
In the Hands of the Mountain God
The towering granite shoulders of the mountain god braced against the blue heavens above. Eero’s eyes remained closed beneath his glacial mask, his b…
2 years, 2 months ago
Udo Gehler and the Virgin Bitch of the Resistance
Udo Gehler saw his next opponent was the Virgin Bitch of the Resistance and didn’t even blink. | © 2024 by Andrea Kriz. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.
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2 years, 2 months ago
An Otherworldly Cat Tells You the Secrets of the Universe
There are a near-infinite number of strange and marvelous worlds in this Universe, and in all of them there are Cats. | © 2024 by Megan Chee. Read by…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Waking Sleep of a Seething Wound
Dawn shot a quiver of cirrus that smeared like sunscreen across the sky. Bini had been awake for hours, back aching. She was too old for this shit. |…
2 years, 3 months ago
Sparrow and the Parasol
Deep in the abyss of the Unholy Bazaar, in a shop that reeked of death and god-blood, Sparrow lay screaming in a web of rope and unbreakable silk. | …
2 years, 3 months ago