Fictional Worlds

Fictional Worlds

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Lady Antheia’s Guide to Horticultural Warfare - Lightspeed Magazine
Lady Antheia’s Guide to Horticultural Warfare - Lightspeed Magazine
It is customary to begin one’s memoirs at birth. As I was not “born” in the gross mammalian sense, I shall begin instead at a more logical point in time. To wit: I was borne to Earth on cosmic winds, falling through chance and the grace of the heavens to root in the soil of Notting Hill. There I grew rapidly to adult stature, devoured a lady’s maid who had the misfortune to come too close to my tendrils, and assumed her form.
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Lady Antheia’s Guide to Horticultural Warfare - Lightspeed Magazine
Dragonflies - Lightspeed Magazine
Dragonflies - Lightspeed Magazine
The dragonfly hung in the thick, humid air like a jeweled miracle, wings beating so fast that they became a blur. Its body was an oil slick of shifting colors, greens and blues and purples, blending together in patterns that would have seemed garish if they hadn’t been natural. It had a cocker spaniel clutched in four of its six legs.
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Dragonflies - Lightspeed Magazine
The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars - Lightspeed Magazine
The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars - Lightspeed Magazine
The tower is a black spire upon a world whose only sun is a million starships wrecked into a mass grave. Light the color of fossils burns from the ships, and at certain hours, the sun casts shadows that mutter the names of vanquished cities and vanished civilizations. It is said that when the tower’s sun finally darkens, the universe’s clocks will stop.
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The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars - Lightspeed Magazine
The Way Home - Lightspeed Magazine
The Way Home - Lightspeed Magazine
The demon, like all the others before it, appeared first in the form of a horizontal plume of rust-red grit and vapor. Almost a kilometer away, it moved low to the ground, camouflaged by the waves of hot, shimmering air that rose from the desert hardpan. Lieutenant Matt Whitebird watched it for many seconds before he was sure it was more than a mirage. Then he announced to his squad, “Incoming."
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The Way Home - Lightspeed Magazine
Broodmare - Fantasy Magazine
Broodmare - Fantasy Magazine
I’m happy on the road. The land stretches like a languid animal, and I find tranquility in its measured length. Outside the car the earth breathes, the ground rising and sinking. Even though I am the one driving, concentrating on the road and the trucks roaring past, it’s like a meditation for me—my mind empties into the open space.
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Broodmare - Fantasy Magazine
Across the Street - Uncanny Magazine
Across the Street - Uncanny Magazine
Much like Ishmael, I have experienced a fair number of damp, drizzly Novembers in my soul. And I, too, have required a strong moral principle to prevent me from stepping into the street and methodically knocking people’s hats off. But unlike Ishmael, I can’t quietly take to sea because my lunch break is only forty-five […]
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Across the Street - Uncanny Magazine
PodCastle 845: Amma's Kitchen - PodCastle
PodCastle 845: Amma's Kitchen - PodCastle
Amma’s Kitchen by Rati Mehrotra   I can always tell what dish my customers will order. Knowing what the dead crave is my gift. Or my curse. It’s hard to know which. This girl, for instance. Brown, like me, but pale, as if the color’s been leeched out of her skin. Dark, staring eyes, weeds […]
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PodCastle 845: Amma's Kitchen - PodCastle
Two Girls Watching Hyper Lane Traffic - 365tomorrows
Two Girls Watching Hyper Lane Traffic - 365tomorrows
Author: Janaya Young In space, hyper lanes operate like traffic lanes but with one important difference: you aren’t entirely in one place or another while traveling through them. Most people can’t tell. Maybe you feel a slight shudder of the ship, or for a moment you look down and your hand is not where you […]
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Two Girls Watching Hyper Lane Traffic - 365tomorrows
Lifeline - 365tomorrows
Lifeline - 365tomorrows
Author: Andrew N. McCue I was 15 when I left home. Replacing schoolbooks from my pack with clothes and food, I steal my mother’s favorite can opener, some flatware and a small stash of cash. I walk mostly or hitch. Standing on the side of a road I read stapled, tacked and nailed sheets of […]
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Lifeline - 365tomorrows
Celebricide - 365tomorrows
Celebricide - 365tomorrows
Author: David Barber “This is a rare photograph of Christ, taken before time tourism was banned,” said the Director of the Temporal Institute. The Senator stopped to examine it, and his entourage jostled and bumped awkwardly behind him. A picture-lined corridor led to the gallery overlooking the wormhole, and though each picture was an actual […]
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Celebricide - 365tomorrows
Dusty Oysters - 365tomorrows
Dusty Oysters - 365tomorrows
Author: Majoki “I’m trying to tell you, Clem, I’m a Dusty Oyster. Just like you and Billy Lee, Davy, Sherm and Stevie. It’s me, Fizzy. You remember, don’t ya?” Clement Ellis stared unbelieving from his wheelchair at the young man jabbering at him. “Dusty Oyster? You? Nonsense. I’m old, but I haven’t lost all my […]
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Dusty Oysters - 365tomorrows