HomecomingThe locker room is always tense before a game. Alisa is trying to get her uniform to stay in place, ...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Homecoming
BellweatherThey had struggled for days through a wasteland of broken rock, high in the mountains, on their way ...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Bellweather
Ragged ClawsLast night, after a short struggle, I went out. It’s like that most evenings, the slow, silent battl...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Ragged Claws
Augusta PrimaAugusta stood in the middle of the lawn with the croquet club in a two-handed grasp. She had been of...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Augusta Prima
The Five Deaths of Marvin DimitriI first met Marvin several years ago, but you don’t have to know Marvin to know his story. That’s th...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Five Deaths of Marvin Dimitri
Enyo-EnyoEnyo meditated at mealtimes within the internod, huffing liquor vapors from a dead comrade’s shatter...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Enyo-Enyo
An Invocation of IncuriosityThere are flea markets all across Florida, and this was not the worst of them. It had once been an a...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014An Invocation of Incuriosity
Ghost DaysOna watched her Teacher turn around. The helmetless Ms. Coron wore a dress that exposed the skin of ...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Ghost Days
The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love StoryThe Insect has never been in love. The Astronomer has never been alive. It is important that you und...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story
The Turing Test“My name is Elektra Shepherd,” I say. “I’m eighteen years old. A freshman in university, majoring in...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Turing Test
Tonight We FlyIt’s the particular metallic rattle of the football slamming the garage door that is like a nail dri...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Tonight We Fly
SleeperErm Kaslo always found that a strong drink or two helped clear his head of the after-effects of the ...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Sleeper
The Battle of YorkYoung General Washington rode alone on his white stallion through the vast forest of Yoosemitee. His...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Battle of York
Yard Sale“Mark them ONE DOLLAR OR BEST OFFER.” I want everything out. Out, so we can leave this place and loc...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Yard Sale
Invisible PlanetsChichi Raha is a fascinating place, its flowers and lakes unforgettable to all visitors. There, you ...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Invisible Planets
Miss Nobody Never WasEverybody thinks that bartenders steal. You know what? They’re right. Maybe there’s an upright barte...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Miss Nobody Never Was
Power Armor: A Love StoryIt was quite a party. The women wore gowns. The men wore tuxedos. Anthony Blair wore power armor.#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Power Armor: A Love Story
Dead FadsThe dead have fads. I work in Deadtown, at a bar mostly frequented by the Dead. They call me PD for ...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Dead Fads
My Wife Hates Time TravelFrom the very beginning—which I guess is also the middle and the end if you follow the bent logic in...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014My Wife Hates Time Travel
The Correspondence Between the Governess and the AtticThe changeling hides in the window seat. On one side of her is glass, gauzy with rain. On the other,...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Correspondence Between the Governess and the Attic
The Foster ChildI came, the hope of my tribe, to the City of Absolutes, in the year of the zero plus two big and a n...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Foster Child
Leaving NightVery quietly, in the dark of night, people began disappearing. Later research showed that they vanis...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Leaving Night
In the Dying Light, We Saw a Shape.@neiltyson calls them “space diatoms,” but I say “space whales.” They’re beaching themselves on our...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014In the Dying Light, We Saw a Shape
None Owns the Air“Push! Push! Damn it, put your backs into it!” Kino Ye’s voice rose to a panicked screech as the fou...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014None Owns the Air
FirebornOnyx turned her face up to the sky as she walked with her friend Jasper beside a mule-cart on the ro...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Fireborn
Detours on the Way to NothingIt’s midnight when you and your girlfriend, Elka, have your first fight since you moved in together....#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Detours on the Way to Nothing
Coma KingsSo I guess the story begins, fittingly, with someone handing me a Coma rig and saying, play me. Two ...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Coma Kings
ElementalsNo one knows how many airlings there are, most likely not a great many, whatever a great many means....#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Elementals
Salamander PatternsI hadn’t meant to become an astronaut, but these things happen. I worked hard, because I liked worki...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Salamander Patterns
The Thing About Shapes to ComeMonica’s new baby was like a lot of new babies these days in that she was born a cube. She had no ex...#Lightspeed Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·lightspeedmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Thing About Shapes to Come