The dead man sits in the corner of the chamber enclosed by spaceship on all sides. He takes up a lot...

The smell of damp steel assaults my nose as I walk the hall, uncomfortable boots clumping heavily wi...

By your first anniversary, the world’s stopped making paper, and so you can’t give your boyfriend th...

“I married your mother for her skull. It’s no secret.” Jarak put aside his rasps and gouges for the ...

Allen Dodson was sitting in seventh-grade math class, staring at the back of Peggy Corcoran’s head, ...

Erm Kaslo came to Cheddle on the Adelaine, a tramp freighter that didn’t mind taking passengers who ...

As late as ten years ago, a mad scientist with a dream could expect to turn a decent profit with his...

It wasn’t enough for my mother Juliet to be crazy. Of course not. She was always going to find a uni...

Made clean, kept clean, wrapped dust-proof. An Energy-Rich Candy Made in the Great City of Chicago! ...

The Master who came for Enri was wearing a relatively young body. Sadie guessed it was maybe fifty y...

BARISTAR - 5:09 - Polarity just magnetized my train. On a Tuesday night. LUNASAM - 5:10 - @BariStar:...

Some people will do almost anything to wipe out a debt. You, Jessica, are no exception. When the cas...

Of all the strange sights I had been privy to during my acquaintanceship with that illustrious detec...

Your brother’s bones, suspended in mineral fluids, turn as smoothly and shine as brightly as the oil...

You are fifteen when you get the brochure. See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! Become a Hero! The ad blin...

“You two ready?” I ask. “Yes, ma’am,” Gert says with forced brightness, and Rally nods quickly, a sh...

Judy says, “It’s snowing.” I look out the window. The sky is the same dirty grey as the snow left fr...

You love someone. A boyfriend, who hogs the covers and pisses with the bathroom door open. Your moth...

The candlelight in our attic erased the imperfections from Libby’s round, heavy features: She seemed...

Default hadn’t been down in the nocturns for some time, probably half an orbit, but he had just diss...

Have you seen those houses on Oroño Boulevard, especially the ones that face east, those dry, cold, ...

In the beginning, I was not attracted to her at all. Quite the opposite. I don’t know if it was inte...

One night, I woke to the sound of my mother’s voice, as I did when I was a child. The words were fam...

It was a crystalline morning in early June, and the sky was wide as a saucer. It was a beautiful day...

Ellie Santos-Smith grabs a clean white coat as spring dawn brightens her worn Oriental rug and strea...

“It’s the best bargain you’ll get in this town,” the faery woman says. She’s standing by a cracked k...

Here’s how I found out: I was in a bar called Dave’s on East 14th Street. It wasn’t my usual place. ...

This is a story about a witch. Not the kind you’re thinking of either. She didn’t have a long nose w...

Once, they’d tried using sex to bring down a target. It had seemed a likely plan: Throw an affair in...

The waves crash onto the blood-red shore, sounding just like the surf on Earth: a dark rumbling full...