Strange Horizons - Water, Birch, and Blood
Kristian is fidgeting and asks the dreaded and inevitable question for the umpteenth time. "Mummy, Ma, are we there yet?" "Almost there, sweetpea," says Maarit, sharing a grimace with me. I’m…
Strange Horizons - Sweet Marrow
At first, the murder is universally mistaken for a run-of-the-mill political assassination.
Strange Horizons - The First Confirmed Case of Non-Corporeal Recursion: Patient Anita R.
The seventh repetition almost played out like all the others. A different person filled Luis' place, but despite the evidence before my eyes, I could only see my idiot husband.
Strange Horizons - Left Foot, Right
Her feet feel unfamiliar in her plain white washekongs, the tennis shoes she used to wear so often, before her world fell in. Now she only wears two sides of shoes when she needs to fake normal.
Strange Horizons - Bride Price
Strange Horizons - Life in Stone, Glass, and Plastic
Marbles, reading glasses, fichas de Monopolio, a key, all cemented onto the crumbling old plaster, maybe eight feet across. Only when he took a step back could he see it formed the shape of a woman…
Strange Horizons - Left the Century to Sit Unmoved
Strange Horizons - The Beef
Jeffries says he's worried about the retrovirus. I think he just doesn't like Matthews, doesn't want him hanging around. Truth is, myself and the kids excepted, Jeffries likes cattle and dogs more …
Strange Horizons - We Have a Cultural Difference, Can I Taste You?
I wriggle, delighting in all of these things in me. I want to digest them all.