This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. They pushed me out of the portal, dumped me into the sage and manzanita. The great orb’s pastel colors glowed against the clear night sky. via Pocket

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. Whatever else one might have said about the Apocalypse, it was thorough. via Pocket

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. Sam Gregory woke up one morning and found, to his dismay, that he had turned into a big cockroach. “Oh, no,” he thought. He had some idea of what was happening because of the Kafk…

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. Gretel was Gottlieb’s most troubling patient. She was clairvoyant. She was also, he feared, quite mad. via Pocket

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. Inspector Wilde was in a fine mood when he arrived at the headquarters of Salmagundi’s Legion of Peace, carrying three paper-wrapped sandwiches and an armload of printed broadshee…

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. Hurricanes did not perturb Horacio Gorrión, nor did rumors of an impending government assault on a barbarous drug cartel in the island’s interior rain forest. via Pocket

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. At a time now past, a cat was born. This was not so long after the first cats came to Japan, so they were rare and mostly lived near the capital city. via Pocket

Charlie is dealing with complicated grief, and even his therabot is out of ideas. But the back-alley grief counselors might have something to help: it looks like blue asparagus, and it’s call…

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. The floor of Borderlands Books had been polished to mirror brightness. A nice trick with old knotty pine, but Penauch would have been a weapons-grade obsessive-compulsive if he’d …

Not all things are built to obey… Reprinting Sarah Gailey’s “Bread and Milk and Salt,” originally published in Robots Vs. Fairies (Saga Press, 2018).

Love has no time limits, but life does. Elizabeth Bear gives us a future where life and love and identity have so many more options than they do today.

A dog detective is hired by a female human to investigate a murder that she committed. But of course, all is not as it seems.

Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And sometimes, handling a test run that has turned deadly serious.

An excerpt from “Second Chances”, a chilling ghost story from Megan Lindholm.

A powerful near future story about two people on a whale-processing rig: one a researcher, the other a worker—and the discovery they make by listening to whale song.

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divi…

The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century.

When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion—or something else entirely.

The language of the originators defines reality, every word warping the world to fit its meaning…

Lou has a magic box. It makes people do things they normally wouldn’t. And Lou likes to watch.

A tale of magic, revenge, and bitter death on the rain-spattered streets of the great city. This is epic fantasy not in the tradition of Tolkien, but, instead, sensual, ominous, shot through with t…

Of the son of a High Duke of the interstellar Empire, much glory is expected. And expected. And still expected, despite endless proof that young Dennison Crestmar has no talent whatsoever for war. …

Read a new piece of original short fiction by Marissa K. Lingen: Uncle Flower’s Homecoming Waltz

Enjoy this new original short story by author Pat Murphy. In “About Fairies,” Jennifer and her co-workers create fairy lands for a toy company, all the while cultivating their own perso…

Which is harder: seeing your own future – or truly knowing your past? Enjoy this year’s Tor.com holiday story “The Ghosts of Christmas,” a new original story by Paul Cornell…

The language of the originators defines reality, every word warping the world to fit its meaning. Its study transforms the mind and body, and is closely guarded by stodgy, paranoid academics. via Pocket

Please enjoy this reprint from Gateways, edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull, an anthology of original stories inspired by science fiction great Frederik Pohl. Pohl’s latest novel, All the Lives He Led, comes out on April 12th from Tor Books. via Pocket

JENNIFER DIDN’T KNOW WHERE Tricia was taking her until her friend dragged her out of the subway car onto the 2nd Avenue-Lower East Side platform. via Pocket

My name is Rose Sullivan. Although I’ve been on the earth for two hundred years, I was turned on my twenty-fifty birthday. I am eternally frozen in the physical form of a twenty-five year old. Blonde hair, blue eyes, five feet two inches tall, one h…

The eerie thing about Paige Adolpha wasn’t just that she turned up right when I was reading about her in the paper. It wasn’t her fame as the star witness in the big local werewolf trial. via Pocket