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Back to SearchSeason of Weddings
To be fair, the first one is work, so he doesn’t even get to pick his outfit. But an olive-scented breeze squirrels joyfully through his hair; waiter…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics
If a robot stands alone in a field, staring into the forlorn distance as it obeys the last order it was given by a human, that order being, “Don’t mo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Only Some of True Love's Miracles
True love’s kiss works miracles. Everyone knows the story: The sculptor who carved a perfect woman, his own creation, and when he fell in love with h…
2 years, 3 months ago
An Incomplete Body Has No Answers
You don’t know why you ask because you already know he can’t answer. A body is only a body when it has all its parts. And he—that beloved man you onc…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kopki and the Fish
The story as it is told in the dry valleys north of Averon, where the only roads run down to the Cricket River and the only power is the freehold of …
2 years, 4 months ago
Will McMahon
I was born normal enough, except that I was four days late, which isn’t so much, and slightly jaundiced, which isn’t unusual, and had a raccoon for a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Let the Star Explode
The last picture that Karu has of her father alive is on the day of her graduation. She has this big smile that by the placing of her dimples makes i…
2 years, 4 months ago
But From Thine Eyes My Knowledge I Derive
It was a long fall in-system from the warp point, so Va Sojourner had plenty of time to observe. She found a peace in her observations that was expen…
2 years, 4 months ago
An Elegy for the Former Things
You’ve been driving for hours and I wish you would stop. You clutch the steering wheel so hard, your knuckles pop white, your palms slick with sweat …
2 years, 4 months ago
What Becomes of Curious Minds
On the third evening of every week, dozens come to Stalactite Keep to hear the storyteller teach about the place beyond Wonderland. Tonight, with onl…
2 years, 5 months ago