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When We Were Heroes | Tor.com
When We Were Heroes | Tor.com
Manhattan smells like rain. The last drops fall from the sky or else the rooftops, drifting down through the high air. With every step, her dress shoes throw out splashes from the thin, oily puddles. It’s ruining the leather, and she doesn’t care. v…
·tor.com·
When We Were Heroes | Tor.com
John Fisher
John Fisher
Well, this would have been about three years ago now, just before my stepdaughter went into first grade. She was still in the process of getting used to me back then. There’s nothing quite like having a five-year-old girl think you’re the anti-Chris…
·firesidefiction.com·
John Fisher
Hurt Me | Apex Magazine
Hurt Me | Apex Magazine
There weren’t many three-bedroom houses that a single woman could afford. 1532 Lachmont Drive was an exception. Built in the 1930s from masonry block, it sat in the middle of a line of houses that had once been very similar to it. via Pocket
·apex-magazine.com·
Hurt Me | Apex Magazine
Now Watch My Rising
Now Watch My Rising
“And until then?” Wolf asks, sitting patiently among the roots of the forest while dwarves forge unbreakable chains. Wolf does not want their limbs bound or their jaws muzzled, but Prophecy has told them this is also their purpose. “What do I do?” v…
·firesidefiction.com·
Now Watch My Rising
Till the Morning Comes - Nightmare Magazine
Till the Morning Comes - Nightmare Magazine
It was supposed to stop after that summer. My mom told me it would, and when she told my dad about it—him just home from third shift, his whiskers all grown back in already, eyes hungry for something none of us ever had for him—he just licked his li…
·nightmare-magazine.com·
Till the Morning Comes - Nightmare Magazine
Ally - Nightmare Magazine
Ally - Nightmare Magazine
It’d been a warm, sunny spring afternoon. The grass in the cemetery was green, the roses and lavender in the wreaths fragrant. Iqbal’s funeral had been a quiet affair, all things considered. Our circle was getting too old for the type of soap opera …
·nightmare-magazine.com·
Ally - Nightmare Magazine