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[ad_1] When Vivian and her daughter witness the family matriarch die without leaving a corpse, Vivian can no longer ignore the family “gift” or the choice that lies before her.     I am elbows-deep in dishwater and morning sunlight when Lily brings me the news. “Gray-Granna’s down by the river,” Lily says. “She’s turning … Read more

[ad_1] A man who can’t feel pain has been bioengineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give in to his fate.     Mars stands in the middle of the highway, knees locked, head tipped back. The sky overhead is choked with harmattan dust. There is so much dust he can stare … Read more

[ad_1] A couple is concerned when their dog behaves increasingly bizarrely: first to their chagrin, and, eventually, to their alarm.     She was the first to fall. As she walked the dog one night, it saw something off to the side and bolted. The strength of the big animal’s lunge on the leash spun … Read more

[ad_1] For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. “Long is the Way” by Carrie Vaughn and Sage Walker sheds light on what people will do to escape the sins of their past, and whether anyone can find redemption. Zoe Harris is … Read more

[ad_1] Four young women go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.     It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest. “Everything is dicks,” Elizabeth said. She gestured at the gnarled gray trunks rising bare-limbed into the shade of their own canopy. “I mean, look around. … Read more

[ad_1] Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the spirit world is shaken.     In a wooden house on a modest farmstead by a … Read more

[ad_1] A clan storyteller unfolds the tale of Seonag and the wolves, and the wolves and the waves.     I know you’ve heard the story of An Duine Aonarach, who one day walked into the sea and never returned. And likely you have at least heard of Seonag as well, who did the same … Read more

[ad_1] For over 25 years, the George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. “There’s never a shortage of people other people want dead.” Spector felt on familiar footing now that he saw the entire game. All a hit man wants can be … Read more

[ad_1] A new story by Laurie Penny.     The King was bored. For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one. The countryside rolled with treacherous forests rammed full of all the requisite enchanted creatures, and stories … Read more

[ad_1] The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back on Earth. That doesn’t stop one elderly woman from stepping outside the safety of the colony whenever she can for the brief opportunity to fully experience the outside world.   Her bath is deep and steaming. … Read more