Of all the strange sights I had been privy to during my acquaintanceship with that illustrious detec...

Your brother’s bones, suspended in mineral fluids, turn as smoothly and shine as brightly as the oil...

You are fifteen when you get the brochure. See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! Become a Hero! The ad blin...

“You two ready?” I ask. “Yes, ma’am,” Gert says with forced brightness, and Rally nods quickly, a sh...

Judy says, “It’s snowing.” I look out the window. The sky is the same dirty grey as the snow left fr...

You love someone. A boyfriend, who hogs the covers and pisses with the bathroom door open. Your moth...

Every few day-cycles, it receives hate-scented lace in anonymous packages. It opens the bland plasti...

The candlelight in our attic erased the imperfections from Libby’s round, heavy features: She seemed...

Default hadn’t been down in the nocturns for some time, probably half an orbit, but he had just diss...

Have you seen those houses on Oroño Boulevard, especially the ones that face east, those dry, cold, ...

In the beginning, I was not attracted to her at all. Quite the opposite. I don’t know if it was inte...

One night, I woke to the sound of my mother’s voice, as I did when I was a child. The words were fam...

It was a crystalline morning in early June, and the sky was wide as a saucer. It was a beautiful day...

Ellie Santos-Smith grabs a clean white coat as spring dawn brightens her worn Oriental rug and strea...

The world is shaped like the kanji for umbrella, only written so poorly, like my handwriting, that a...

“It’s the best bargain you’ll get in this town,” the faery woman says. She’s standing by a cracked k...

Here’s how I found out: I was in a bar called Dave’s on East 14th Street. It wasn’t my usual place. ...

This is a story about a witch. Not the kind you’re thinking of either. She didn’t have a long nose w...

Once, they’d tried using sex to bring down a target. It had seemed a likely plan: Throw an affair in...

The waves crash onto the blood-red shore, sounding just like the surf on Earth: a dark rumbling full...

The process of transforming sunlight into a solid object had been complete about a month when we bro...

No one said anything, but Sull could tell they were all a little jealous when he lost his arms and l...

The boy looked like any other boy his age, except that, thanks to him, there had been for some time ...

So night comes on. I make my own fire, because why would I want to sit at Phillips’s, next to that p...

The earliest movements she knows are not her mother’s movements but the sea rocking her mother, who ...

This certifies that HELEN FRANCES LAWRENCE, sex FEMALE was born to JOHN DENISON LAWRENCE and VIRGINI...

“I have my limits,” said Gorlen Vizenfirthe, hooking a full mug of cheap brew toward him with one of...

The tiny cottage at the edge of Sanli Village—away from the villagers’ noisy houses and busy clan sh...

News of the disappearance of inventor Felix Frey spread through the Air with electric ease. It was e...

“How many kids now?” I asked. “Twenty-five we can identify for sure. But that’s out of a couple of h...