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Back to SearchSarena Ulibarri | The Bolt Tightener
“There are one thousand eight hundred bolts total,” the old man said. “You’ll work every night until sunrise. Always go in order. Never skip a bolt.”…
12 years, 10 months ago
Karen Joy Fowler | Lily Red
One day Lily decided to be someone else. Someone with a past. It was an affliction of hers, wanting this. The desire was seldom triggered by any actu…
12 years, 10 months ago
M. Bennardo | The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest
A loon called this morning, loud and clear in the cold hours before dawn, but it was not that which woke me from my sleep. As I opened my eyes, the b…
12 years, 10 months ago
Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris
Harry looked out the window and thought: At least I saw Paris one more time before it was destroyed in the bombardment. Narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir…
12 years, 10 months ago
Robert Reed | Eight Episodes
With minimal fanfare and next to no audience, Invasion of a Small World debuted in the summer of 2016, and after a brief and disappointing run, the s…
12 years, 11 months ago
Marly Youmans | Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix
Perhaps you’ve heard an anecdote about a child named Cresencio who was skipping barefoot between hills of corn when a shallow bowl in the field, long…
12 years, 11 months ago
Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Purity Test
My feet are scraped and bleeding, my slippers shredded and almost useless. The dress hangs in tatters around me. No longer white, it still bears the …
12 years, 11 months ago
Jeffrey Ford | Daltharee
You’ve heard of bottled cities, no doubt—society writ miniscule and delicate beyond reason: toothpick spired towns, streets no thicker than thread, p…
12 years, 11 months ago
Cherie Priest | Addison Howell and the Clockroach
Addison Howell didn’t so much arrive in the town of Humptulips as appear there sometime around 1875. He had money, which set him apart from everybody…
13 years ago
Matthew Kressel | The Sounds of Old Earth
Earth has grown quiet since everyone’s shipped off to the new one. I walk New Paltz’s empty streets with an ox-mask tight about my face. An acidic ra…
13 years ago