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My Teacher, My Enemy - Lightspeed Magazine
My Teacher, My Enemy - Lightspeed Magazine
My enemy’s body is still warm when I take my knife to him. Stripped to his skin and lain upon his back, he looks much less frightening than he had when he was alive, armed, and desperate to kill me. But there is still power in the shape of his relaxing muscles and the size of his cooling frame, and, as he is a foot taller than I am, I feel a surge of pride in my accomplishment that is even greater than the hot pleasure of the kill.
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My Teacher, My Enemy - Lightspeed Magazine
Requiem in the Key of Prose - Lightspeed Magazine
Requiem in the Key of Prose - Lightspeed Magazine
There is such a thing as an antifuse. This device is used to maintain the ongoing flow of electricity when there is local failure. The antifuse works similarly to a fuse in that it is designed to be sacrificed for a specific goal. But while a fuse is sacrificed to stop electricity from flowing, an antifuse is sacrificed to guarantee that the electricity does not stop.
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Requiem in the Key of Prose - Lightspeed Magazine
Breaking the Frame - Lightspeed Magazine
Breaking the Frame - Lightspeed Magazine
The photograph is of a woman at the center of a forest. She is slim and tall and pale as the birches she stands among. The shadows turn her ribs and spine into branches, into knots in the wood. Around her arms, the peeling white bark of the birches, curved in bracelets. Between her thighs, the hair is dense and springy like moss. She is turning into a tree.
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Breaking the Frame - Lightspeed Magazine
The Seven Samovars - Lightspeed Magazine
The Seven Samovars - Lightspeed Magazine
“The first samovar, the silver one at the end with the little bird perched atop the key, is filled to the top with Life,” she says, “freshly brewed each morning at sunrise exactly. A few drops will perk up most customers on a Monday morning, to be sure. And most of them need it, don’t you think?”
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The Seven Samovars - Lightspeed Magazine
Spindles - Lightspeed Magazine
Spindles - Lightspeed Magazine
The first thing that went missing was the smell of onions cooking in butter. It took her a good long time to realize that this was gone, for she had never realized that onions were the cause of the smell. Onions remained, of course. Raw onions still smelled as they always did. They still made you cry when you cut them. But when you fried them: nothing. There was no smell. It was gone.
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Spindles - Lightspeed Magazine
Searching for Slave Leia - Lightspeed Magazine
Searching for Slave Leia - Lightspeed Magazine
A slip, slide, falling through icy coldness, white noise like TV static. A breeze of hot buttery popcorn. Giddy laughter, sweaty bodies, fanfare music over the intercom, and what’s this? A ten-foot-wide movie poster of young, pale, undernourished Carrie Fisher, posed seductively in a gold metal bikini with a collar and chain around her neck.
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Searching for Slave Leia - Lightspeed Magazine
La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza - Lightspeed Magazine
La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza - Lightspeed Magazine
Marguerite Espinoza took her last breath as the sun slipped behind the Salt Mountains outside the expansive windows of her third floor bedchamber. Alvardo nearly missed the moment, eavesdropping to the gathered family’s whispered conversations. He had falsely predicted her passing four times in the past three days, but the passing was unmistakable. As Maestro Eusebio had said many times, “When the moment comes, you will know.” And he did.
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La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza - Lightspeed Magazine
A Well-Adjusted Man - Lightspeed Magazine
A Well-Adjusted Man - Lightspeed Magazine
On September 3, 2045, Jim Turner shot dead an innocent girl and went home to his family a well-adjusted man. It was supposed to be a simple escapee bust, out in the projects. Intel said three hostiles in the apartment, armed and volatile, on the run from Louisiana Debtors. So they rammed the door and went in, two other guys and Jim.
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A Well-Adjusted Man - Lightspeed Magazine
Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns - Lightspeed Magazine
Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns - Lightspeed Magazine
Each time I find a new apprentice in these times of trouble, I remember being a girl of twelve, getting close to thirteen. The other lads and maidens my age were already starting to pair off. But I was still taking my little brother and sister to hear the Witch of the Forest of Avalon tell stories on her porch on summer evenings. The old tales always held a fascination for me.
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Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns - Lightspeed Magazine
Dragonflies - Lightspeed Magazine
Dragonflies - Lightspeed Magazine
The dragonfly hung in the thick, humid air like a jeweled miracle, wings beating so fast that they became a blur. Its body was an oil slick of shifting colors, greens and blues and purples, blending together in patterns that would have seemed garish if they hadn’t been natural. It had a cocker spaniel clutched in four of its six legs.
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Dragonflies - Lightspeed Magazine
Octopus vs. Bear - Lightspeed Magazine
Octopus vs. Bear - Lightspeed Magazine
You woke up female this morning, so now you have a choice: do what other people want, or be a bitch. It is a thing you know without precisely knowing it. The knowledge is built into the muscle memory of this miraculous new body; it is draped across the bones like a weight. You shudder, stretching your delicate female limbs beneath the unfamiliar, sun-drenched sheets. Female for a day, you think.
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Octopus vs. Bear - Lightspeed Magazine
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Empire of Nothingness by Geoffrey Maloney
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Empire of Nothingness by Geoffrey Maloney
Aspley turned slowly. He had been washed ashore on the island, and in a daze, a delirium, had stumbled from the beach and into this building. He had no idea where he was or how he had come to be there. No explanations to soothe the rushing of his frantic mind. But then his intellect cut in. Reason, lovely, lovely reason, told him, in all its wisdom, that wherever he was it was preferable to where he had been, preferable, dear god, yes, to the horror of sucking seawater into his lungs.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Empire of Nothingness by Geoffrey Maloney
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Proof of Bravery by David Milstein
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Proof of Bravery by David Milstein
I saw my men, who had been the cream of the III Corps, gladly charge well-fed, well-shod Cossacks with nothing but the bayonet and stock of the musket frozen in their hands, barefoot and starving. I admired them for their courage. I envied it. Because I had lost what I most cared for: the calculus of risk, and in its disregard, of bravery. That month of frimaire, I learned that nothing could end my life. I was no longer human.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Proof of Bravery by David Milstein
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Cut, Fold, and Conquer the Universe: The Best Models in the Galaxy by Mark Cole
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Cut, Fold, and Conquer the Universe: The Best Models in the Galaxy by Mark Cole
Subscribe to Clarkesworld and never miss an issue of our World Fantasy and Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. This page: Cut, Fold, and Conquer the Universe: The Best Models in the Galaxy by Mark Cole
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Cut, Fold, and Conquer the Universe: The Best Models in the Galaxy by Mark Cole
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Place to Stand by Grace Seybold
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Place to Stand by Grace Seybold
The title of the book was Principles of Light-Bearing, and Sharide was engrossed in it by the second page. It described how light was the underpinning of the world. She had dreamed of being a weaver, and a fisher, and a soldier, and many different wives, but the life of a seeker of knowledge had never come to her yet. When next she slept, she decided, she would try to find a life wherein she had read this book, and other books, and understood them.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Place to Stand by Grace Seybold