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An Omodest Proposal - Lightspeed Magazine
An Omodest Proposal - Lightspeed Magazine
Esteemed neighbors, emissaries, ambassadors, and dignitaries, I write to you today not only as a statesman but as a scientist. We in the city of Omelas have been exceedingly lucky in recent years. The wars, diseases, and financial instability that have rocked the world have so far passed us by. Partly that’s been due to prudent precautions and smart public investments, but it’s also true that our fine city benefits in unique ways from ancient, dearly-held customs.
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An Omodest Proposal - Lightspeed Magazine
The Martian Invasion - 365tomorrows
The Martian Invasion - 365tomorrows
Author: David Barber Across the gulfs of space, intellects bold and curious observe our world and hasten their plans against us… Buried deep in our cold, slow cities, age after age passed unregarded and we cared nothing for the world above until fiery scouts began falling from the skies. The Elders would have ignored this […]
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The Martian Invasion - 365tomorrows
Waystation City - Uncanny Magazine
Waystation City - Uncanny Magazine
I was finishing the last of my nightly coffee when the nineteen-seventies twins approached my table and asked me to bear witness to their disappearance. This was not an unusual request at Cafe Liminalité, being the locale of patrons that dreamed too much and ate too little. I, being its longest and oldest customer, had […]
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Waystation City - Uncanny Magazine
Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont - Fantasy Magazine
Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont - Fantasy Magazine
On the island of Manhattan, there’s a building out of time. I can’t tell you where it is, exactly. It has an address, of course, as all buildings do, but that wouldn’t mean anything to you. What I can tell you is that the building is called The Oakmont.
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Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont - Fantasy Magazine
Redshift ||| Shiftred - Uncanny Magazine
Redshift ||| Shiftred - Uncanny Magazine
The dose hits, blindsiding me with a gentle, warm light, and at once each of my trembled breaths is filled with a sweet taste like water ice. I will float over every ache and smooth over every edge until I indulge in the deliberate, ponderous, redshifted joy of living. And indulge it is. Even though […]
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Redshift ||| Shiftred - Uncanny Magazine
Bad Doors - Uncanny Magazine
Bad Doors - Uncanny Magazine
The country was at just over ten thousand deaths the morning that the door appeared. On Kosmo’s phone NPR was interviewing a doctor with a nasal voice about the need for social distancing, while Kosmo himself collected empty cans from around his home office. They were everywhere. Walls of recyclable cans dominated his room. Just […]
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Bad Doors - Uncanny Magazine
How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub - Uncanny Magazine
How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub - Uncanny Magazine
“Ambition!” Trevor emphasized, rapping knuckles hard on the wood table. “That is what makes the great men!” He took a satisfied swallow from his mug. Across from him, Barnaby put down the daily he’d been reading and sipped from his own beer. Pulling out a handkerchief to dab froth from his lips, he scratched thoughtfully […]
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How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub - Uncanny Magazine
The Lily and the Horn - Fantasy Magazine
The Lily and the Horn - Fantasy Magazine
War is a dinner party. My ladies and I have spent the dregs of summer making ready. We have hung garlands of pennyroyal and snowberries in the snug, familiar halls of Laburnum Castle, strained cheese as pure as ice for weeks in the caves and the kitchens, covered any gloomy stone with tapestries or stags’ heads with mistletoe braided through their antlers. We sent away south to the great markets of Mother-of-Millions for new silks and velvets and furs.
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The Lily and the Horn - Fantasy Magazine
When I Lost Those Eight Minutes and Twenty Seconds - 365tomorrows
When I Lost Those Eight Minutes and Twenty Seconds - 365tomorrows
Author: Allie Nava They say your life flashes before you as you fold into the arms of death, and perhaps that is what happened to me when I lost those eight minutes and twenty seconds. I was a child peddling gleeful “whee’s” on a red bicycle, over a calming ocean of green hillocks. I was […]
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When I Lost Those Eight Minutes and Twenty Seconds - 365tomorrows