Evan Dorman Presents “Sickly Sweet”
SICKLY SWEET Evan Dorman At the start, it should be recognized that the origins of the plague that swept across the nation in the earlier years of the Regency are even now unknown, for all the pages of...
View ArticleMark Helwig Ostler Presents “REVIEW: Devolex by Ziem & Charles GmbH”
REVIEW: DEVOLEX BY ZIEM & CHARLES GMBH Mark Helwig Ostler SCoTT TygrA’s review column, I Want a New Drug, appears Fridays. Indie developers and big pharms can send Advance Review Copies of their...
View ArticleTory Hoke Presents “Carbonware Bindings for HomoSapiens”
CARBONWARE BINDINGS FOR HOMOSAPIENS Tory Hoke Thank you for installing HomoSapiens! We at Carbonware are confident you’ll find this species as rewarding as we do. Whatever HomoSapiens might lack in...
View ArticleMalon Edwards Presents “Imagine All The People”
IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE Malon Edwards I unscrew the drain stopper. A foul odor wafts out. It takes me some time to get at his hair. Chasakara used to do this. His fingers were slender. Tapered. Soft....
View ArticleJoshua Gage Presents “The Oldest of Conversations”
THE OLDEST OF CONVERSATIONS Joshua Gage Eduardo, from the town of Tolhuin in Tierra del Fuego, spends the afternoon in his backyard, smoking his pipe. Slowly, his feet lift from the ground until he has...
View ArticleFran Wilde Presents “With Regrets, the Official Report of the Ballot Incident...
WITH REGRETS, THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BALLOT INCIDENT AT THE ACADEMY SCIENTIFIC Fran Wilde Official report to the Academy Scientific board, recorded June 13 18__: As is my habit, I stored the...
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Sarena Ulibarri Presents “Silver-Faced, Perfect Circle”
SILVER-FACED, PERFECT CIRCLE Sarena Ulibarri I remember when the moon crashed. The villagers think I’m not old enough, but I’ve lived on this mountaintop since their grandmothers’ grandmothers were...
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Jamie Lackey Presents “The Path to Butterfly”
THE PATH TO BUTTERFLY Jamie Lackey Cheri stretched her tongue into deep into the bright pink lily. Bitter, dusty pollen stuck to her tongue, but she couldn’t reach the sweet nectar. She took a sip of...
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Megan Branning Presents “King’s Eye”
KING’S EYE Megan Branning The odor from the cages jabbed me in the gut. A mutt looked out at me, stub tail twitching in tentative joy. She jammed her snout between the bars. I walked by. None of these...
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Fred Coppersmith Presents “The Raven”
THE RAVEN Fred Coppersmith In a warehouse in Manhattan, there is a raven that can talk, and if you ask it a question, any question at all, it will tell you the answer, no matter how strange or...
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Rachael Acks Presents “Silver Fish”
SILVER FISH Rachael Acks Josh wiggled his fingers in the moonlight, pale and graceful, and imagined them as fingerlings in the river, sliding through the currents. Under his bed, something buzzed like...
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