Rune Factory 3 Special (2023) Walkthrough and Guide
Fictional Worlds
Cast of Wonders 539: Little Wonders 39 - Home Ties
After the stoplights go to flashing red and the bars make their last calls, Park’s All-Night Ramyun and Snack Emporium lights up, its warm yellow lanterns beckoning customers from the street.
PodCastle 793: Dip and Roll - PodCastle
Dip and Roll by Celeste Rita Baker On de largest beach of de smallest island in de Tania archipelago in de Caribbean Sea five shoreside metamorphic beachrocks sit chatting, as dey have done for de last hundred and sixty-odd years. “Hey, allyou. I leaving soon. You hear me? Dis place ain’t gon’ be de same,” […]
PodCastle 798: ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Squalor and Sympathy - PodCastle
Squalor and Sympathy by Matt Dovey Anna concentrated on the cold, on the freezing water around her feet and the bruising sensation in her toes. So cold. So cold. So cold, she thought. A prickling warmth like pins and needles crackled inside her feet. It coursed through her body to her clenched hands and into the lead alloy […]
Welcome - 365tomorrows
Author: Ann Tandy Good morning, and welcome! You may be feeling a little disoriented: this is the natural result (and, indeed, intent!) of the stimulating effects of the musk exuded by the Great Beast. Your appendages may feel a bit stiff, but they will grow strong and agile once more, never fear! You may be […]
Wolf - 365tomorrows
Author: Eli Hastings The man turns a circle in the intersection, the four way crimson stop light flashing overhead, so he is encircled in crimson glow now, and now, not. The yellow Walkman gripped like a handgun in his right fist. The headphones nearly the age of the Walkman and the cassette clipped into it. […]
Explosive Situation, a harry potter fanfic | FanFiction
I Want Candy, a harry potter fanfic | FanFiction
Walkabout, a harry potter fanfic | FanFiction
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Oh-No-You-Didn't, a harry potter fanfic | FanFiction
For The Greater Goof, a harry potter fanfic | FanFiction
Sand In Your Hand - 365tomorrows
Author: Ruby Zehnder “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, mom. I can’t pass it up.” Rachel didn’t reply. She had heard these words before. When Naomi moved to India to live with her father, Rachel didn’t stop her. When she moved to Cambridge to attend MIT, she encouraged her. And the two years she spent on Mars […]
City In Dust - 365tomorrows
Author: Dave Ludford He reached the brow of the steep hill just before noon with the blazing sun at its apex making him feel drowsy and slightly nauseous. He dismounted from the equus and the sure-footed but cumbersome beast grunted in relief. The sense of unease he’d felt all morning seemed to be getting stronger […]
In the Ruins - 365tomorrows
Author: J David Singer Alex hummed as she crossed the desert. Not with any kind of tune, just a prolonged contented sigh; almost a purr. In her arms, she held a small, rectangular, steel container with ridges on two sides. These ridges, she knew from long experience, should fit into the racks of the mainframe […]
Beneath The Box Elder - 365tomorrows
Author: Majoki In the dappled sunlight she felt the late afternoon breeze turn the tide against the day’s heat. So pleasant, so perfect, like so many hundreds of summer evenings before in her back garden. She brimmed, feeling the privilege of contentment. But how to say it? In her best days, expressing these feelings had […]
Sisphyean Chrome - 365tomorrows
Author: James Kelbert There was a tuna casserole baking in the oven as X forked its human to death. The timer went off just as the half-crusty blood oozed from the pale corpse onto the Formica countertop. In a vain expression of regret, X repeatedly smacked its trapezoidal head with its rusted digits. After the […]
Drift - 365tomorrows
Author: Allyson Foley His breathing was deafening in the confines of the helmet as he clung to the wreckage of the Palindrought. That thing had looked like one of theirs. Its clearance codes had checked out. Its hull, the call sign, even its frequency and flight path had all cleared. The ship had been Telphi […]
Jacob's Ladder - 365tomorrows
Author: David Penn On this planet in the Emerson V system, sardonically named Jacob’s Ladder by its first explorers, the dominant species looks superficially like an Earth stick insect. However, these creatures are as large as our blue whales, have ten minutely-jointed legs, each ending in an eye, and mouths which operate more like ancient […]
Solitude - 365tomorrows
Author: Kristen Henderson Her right hand was so chewed up by the churning machine at the mill that she was left with little choice. Little choice but to have a dowdy female surgeon attach a claw-like contraption to what straggly shattered pieces were left behind. If only she’d been left handed, but she was so […]
Waiting for a Being - 365tomorrows
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer I thought the skinny functionary nodded my way. The two of them are approaching, all eager smiles, curious glances, and whispered asides. “Are these seats taken? The server said they weren’t, but you know, they sometimes get things wrong. So, are they?” At least there’s two of them. Hopefully they’ll […]
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Empathetic Ear by M. J. Pettit
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Who Can Have the Moon by Congyun 'Muming' Gu, translated by Tian Huang
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Light Speed Is Not a Speed by Andy Dudak
Space Genies Sometimes Run Late - 365tomorrows
Author: David Broz There is plenty of time to think out in space, in the middle of nowhere, just me and the dark and the pinpricks of the stars. And I think about how I miss you. I want to ask you, do you ever think of me? My mind is wandering. What if I […]
Alphabet of Swans
This week we are delighted to be present as E. Lily Yu’s startling, gorgeous “Alphabet of Swans” makes its revelations. ~ Julian and Fran, August 27, 2023 Alphabet of Swans By E. Lily Yu “No major issues, I’m happy to say. A little myopia in the left, some astigmatism in the right.”
The Axe Forgets, The Tree Does Not - 365tomorrows
Author: David Barber The final part of the plan involved capturing a Jirt Princess. Morgan led one assault team, a band of Earthers who took terrible losses before the Jirt security swarm was destroyed. A last Jirt warrior blocked the way down into the palace. Evolution had selected the soldier caste for single combat with […]
The Runners - Fantasy Magazine
They have never fought about it. “It’s your body,” her husband says, and means it. Only sometimes, when they’re out walking, a little girl will careen across their path roaring like a giggly tyrannosaurus, and he falls silent. “What’re you thinking about?” she asks, before she learns not to.
The Job at the End of the World - Reactor
A weary resilience worker should know better than anyone: no one is safe when the world is always ending...
Nothing Like a Lockdown to Lock Down a Relationship - Electric Literature
"Communicable" from THE ARCHIVISTS by Daphne Kalotay, recommended by Rebecca Makkai
Adopt a Cat for the Global Collapse - Electric Literature
"It Is What It Is" by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, recommended by Electric Literature