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StoriesPodCastle 755: Aurum & Indigo - PodCastle
Aurum & Indigo By LP Kindred Aurum sits on a wooden stool, hunched over the oakwood bar, stained darker by shellac and low lights. In spite of them, he stares into his book while a second lies closed atop the bar. His feet dangle, kicking softly. Eyes rake over words but their meaning never […]
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PodCastle 754: TALES FROM THE VAULTS – The One They Took Before - PodCastle
The One They Took Before by Kelly Sandoval Rift opened in my backyard. About six feet tall and one foot wide. Appears to open onto a world of endless twilight and impossible beauty. Makes a ringing noise like a thousand tiny bells. Call (206) 555-9780 to identify. Kayla reads the listing twice, knowing the […]
PodCastle 753: TALES FROM THE VAULTS – Piety, Prayer, Peacekeeper, Apocalyp
Piety, Prayer, Peacekeeper, Apocalypse by Rati Mehrotra Soru Khara had been hunting her death for many years before she arrived at the crumbling old port of Tyron. She camouflaged her skimmer and stalked up to the rusty gates as the sun set over the citadel, the fishy tang of the sea sharp in her nostrils. […]
PodCastle 752: The Music on the Hill - PodCastle
The Music on the Hill by Saki Sylvia Seltoun ate her breakfast in the morning-room at Yessney with a pleasant sense of ultimate victory, such as a fervent Ironside might have permitted himself on the morrow of Worcester fight. She was scarcely pugnacious by temperament, but belonged to that more successful class of fighters […]
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PodCastle 751: Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Mortality - PodCastle
The Stars That Fall by Samantha Murray When Sara asks me if I want to go doom-spotting I say yes. Of course I say yes. The Edge Lookout is dark and rocky and romantic, and I usually say yes to anything Sara suggests. And I’ve been addicted to doom-hunting ever since I was nine […]
PodCastle 751: Flash Fiction Extravaganza Mortality
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PodCastle 750: We Are All of Us - PodCastle
We Are All of Us by Deborah L. Davitt They wore white armor, sleek and chitinous — not the white of chalk, but the white of bone peeking through the skin of a mummy. The white of a grub writhing in black river soil. They dwelled in the deep desert, where few of the […]
The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye - Uncanny Magazine
archived 26 Aug 2022 13:33:52 UTC
The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye - Uncanny Magazine
It was a nice enough cabin, if Zanna ignored the dead wasps. Their bodies were in the bedroom, all over the quilt and the floor, so she’d sleep in the living room until they ascertained whether there was a live wasp problem as well as a dead one. If she ignored the wasps, it was […]
The Beasts We Want To Be - Lightspeed Magazine
Two things were wrong with the Spasskaya assessment. The first was the painting: a tiny square in a simple frame, something I barely noticed at the time, but which would go on to cause us so much suffering. The second was the woman. Wailing greeted us when we arrived, almost at midnight. Assessment teams had to come without warning. Snow fell in great marching waves, helpless in the hands of the wind off the Moscow River.
The Beasts We Want To Be - Lightspeed Magazine
The Art of Detection - 365tomorrows
Author: David K Scholes The three of us pored over the various 3D mind image, life force energy, and bio patterns. The “B” team, consisting of robotic investigators stood ready to assist us. There were, of course, other “A” teams and many, many other robot led “B’ teams, the world over, doing the same work. […]
Ten Candles - 365tomorrows
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer “For a long time, people wondered just what the first-ever crime committed in the Martian Colonies was going to be. The first murder. The first rape. The first vicious assault. The first deletion of a child’s innocence. For a long time, people wondered, but now they wonder no more.” “Spartan […]
Tall Tales on the Iron Horse - a short story by Colin P Davies
archived 21 Aug 2015 20:30:12 UTC
Tall Tales on the Iron Horse - a short story by Colin P Davies
He had to track her down ... wherever it took him.
Sudden and Grace - 365tomorrows
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer Words fall like hawks. I know someone is going to die. As the Cantor finishes his brief condemnation, I see her move like a broken mannequin; a ballerina of sudden and grace. There’s a falsetto gurgle that bubbles into a dying sigh. She’s quick tonight; a minor offender. The crowd shivers […]
Star Eagle - 365tomorrows
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer With slow majesty the huge spacecraft swings about, displaying alien lines in the distant star’s light. Mantled wings of golden energy cant toward the tiny needle that darts about, shooting beams of visible and invisible energy at it. The behemoth remains silent and apparently indifferent. “Damn it! Why doesn’t it […]