The Ghost Pet Detective, by Ryan Row | Shimmer
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Yukui! by James Patrick Kelly
For weeks, Sprite had told herself that Ratchanee Malakul was helping her hero get better, but no. “You have to accept that Jaran is never going to have sex with you,” the lifeguide told Sprite, as she was leaving on that last day. “You’re wrong,” s…
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Loneliest Ward by Hao Jingfang
At the nurses station, Qina and Auntie Han were the only two left on duty. Everyone else had already gone home, relief flooding their faces as they exited the ward. Qina wasn’t her usual carefree self—but who could blame her? She was in the middle o…
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Privilege of the Happy Ending by Kij Johnson
This is a story that ends as all stories do, eventually, in deaths. When Ada’s parents died in the winter of her sixth year, she was sent to the neighboring parish to live with her aunt, Margery. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Kingfisher by Robert Reed
And then there was quite a long time with nothing to chase. No suggestive tracks in the ice, no hopeful stories told by misinformed strangers. The air didn’t hold any name glancingly resembling her name, and there weren’t even rumors about intriguin…
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Veilonaut’s Dream by Henry Szabranski
Sometimes the Discontinuity kinks and curves and flips about as if it is alive. Openings slide along its vast length like undigested morsels down the gullet of a cosmic serpent. via Pocket
Monsters in Space, by Angela Ambroz | Shimmer
Jane by Margaret Dunlap | Shimmer
Allosaurus Burgers by Sam J. Miller | Shimmer
Ellie and Jim vs. Tony “The Nose” by Eden Robins | Shimmer
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Anchorite Wakes by R.S.A. Garcia
Sister Nadine’s first true thought is of beauty. Father Paul is delivering a sermon on sacrifice in his deep voice, pausing for emphasis every so often, when the bird lands on the ledge of her squint with a silent flutter of wings. via Pocket
The Atonement Path - Lightspeed Magazine
To think we used to put young criminals in jail. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to eavesdrop. Or should I say eaveswatch? What is the comparable term for using one’s visual sense in a surreptitious fashion? Dining establishments are a superb venue for such…
Rapture, by Meg Elison | Shimmer
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wakes up again. It’s the third time today. She thinks awakenings are far more common in springtime, but all year long she is called this way. She sighs and tucks her dark hair back under her cap. She will not refuse the ca…
Rapture, by Meg Elison | Shimmer
Bleeding Through the Shadows, by David Rees-Thomas | Shimmer
The store has been here for a hundred years. It’s outlived the coal mines, the dead of world wars, the indecencies of Thatcher, the indiscriminate violence of South Wales valleys youth. via Pocket
Milkteeth, by Kristi DeMeester | Shimmer
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson
“I rise today on this September 11th, the one-year anniversary of the greatest tragedy on American soil in our history, with a heavy heart . . . ” —Hon. Jim Turner September 9, 2001 Jessica slumped against the inside of the truck door. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Cosmonaut’s Caretaker by Dora Klindžić
Landing planetside used to be a good feeling. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Your Multicolored Life by Xing He
The occasional breeze allayed the scorching midsummer heat, soothing the fever dreams of the sleepers in the mining scar. The remote blue sky was rooted to the earth, which here in the work zone was the blood red of hematite. Zhang Hua crouched low.…
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Meridian by Karin Lowachee
They all tried to save me. In that space between life and death, you make a decision whether to wake up. Maybe that’s when time ceases to matter. I felt older than four years old and too young to remember. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : To Fly Like a Fallen Angel by Qi Yue
When Li Yaya was roused from sleep, it was seven o’clock in the morning on a Saturday. This was aggravating because the day before Saturday was Friday, and on Friday nights, Yaya never retired too early. The first thing she saw when she woke up was …
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : For What are Delusions if Not Dreams? by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
An Operator speaks. His mouth is full of wires, yet he talks still. He really shouldn’t be speaking, for his mouth is full of fraught wires that rub against each other, creating friction, letting loose sparks in his mouth. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The James Machine by Kate Osias
James first brought it up when the war was new and he and Cat still thought they could win it. via Pocket
The Stable Master’s Tale | Fantasy Magazine
My father’s stables were the most important part of his holdings. By the time I had ten summers, I could soothe a panicked stallion and help birth a breech foal. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Space of One’s Own by Steve Rasnic Tem
The skimmer is on the roof waiting for him, but he cannot help but pause to take a few deep breaths when he first enters all that open space. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Vault by D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Chenguang hikes up her sleeves before vaulting over the pile of fuzzy moss and greets Lukas with a nod. The chloropolyurethane fabric flaps in the slight breeze and the double suns beat down onto her arms. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Heron of Earth by Vajra Chandrasekera
They never gave her a name; when she needs one she names and renames herself after the birds she sees from the watchtower, the birds she sees in the forest, whichever most recently caught her eye or arrow. via Pocket
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Deeps of the Sky by Elizabeth Bear
Stormchases’ little skiff skipped and glided across the tropopause, skimming the denser atmosphere of the warm cloud-sea beneath, running before a fierce wind. via Pocket
The Anatomist’s Mnemonic - Nightmare Magazine
Samuel Wilson’s life wasn’t a search for love at every turn. There’d been girls he’d liked, with whom he’d managed fragile love affairs, but something was always lacking no matter how hard he tried. Something that failed to ignite. Sam knew what it …
Red Rain - Nightmare Magazine
Have you ever found yourself on a midtown sidewalk on some warm July day when a plummeting body splattered on the pavement, directly in front of you? Close enough to feel the explosive shockwave of hot liquid air, pelting your trousers with meat pel…