Saturday Storytime: Mika Model
As someone who does a lot of “adjusting their programming” to fit the world around them, I’m just going to be over here thinking about this Paolo Bacigalupi story for a while.I realized I was staring,...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: How High Your Gods Can Count
A lovely little creation story from Tegan Moore. Or not so lovely. Depends on your perspective, I suppose.The visions have been walking among the temple ruins with us for months. They mingle with the...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The Destroyer
Tara Isabella Burton reminds us that every unhappy family is uniquely unhappy–though some people may find some resonance with this mother and daughter in an alternate Rome.Long before my mother...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Deathlight
Sometimes you just have to try, whatever the cost, as Mari Ness reminds us.If she killed him, the ship would use a little—just a little—less energy. She could stay warmer just a little longer. If she...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The Drowning Line
This story from Haralambi Markov is one of those fantasies you think could be metaphor until the end, when it still could be but you really hope it isn’t.“Don’t frighten her.” “I’m frightening her?!”...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Hiranyagarbha
This story from Kevin Jared Hosein is just one piece in Lightspeed Magazine‘s People of Colo(u)r Destroy Flash Fiction! issue. There’s a whole bunch more great short fiction to check out as well.But I...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Bride Price
This story from S. E. Jones really didn’t go where I expected it to. I rather like the differences.The family hall was tucked behind the children’s hospital. The road was dotted with skeletal plane...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Sleeping Beauty
This story from Ian McHugh is light and fluffy and exactly what I was looking for as a chance.‘Look to your defences, monster!’ he cried, in what he hoped was an authoritative tone. ‘That’s really...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: El Cantar of Rising Sun
In most of our fantasy stories, the magic works to make things better, even if it’s a dangerous force. Then there’s this story from Sabrina Vourvoulias.Before the candles, before the stoles and bells,...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Water, Birch, and Blood
This story from Sara Norja makes me wonder what I’d find if I returned to the lakes and forests of my childhood. I mean, I know, all impaired memory aside, but it still makes me wonder.“A magpie...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The Words on My Skin
Stories are largely about the choices we make and their consequences, intended and unintended. This story by Caroline Yoachim distills that dynamic to its essence. In theory, it was a good system,...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Traumphysik
This is fine. I’m okay with the events that are currently unfolding, as is the protagonist of this story from Monica Byrne.When I was finished cataloging everything, I did something I now regret. I...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The Plague Givers
This story from Kameron Hurley asks whether it’s better to do the necessary but painful thing or not. I’m not entirely sure it answers its own question.She kept her machete up. “I’m called Bet, out...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Trip Trap
Sometimes you fight the monsters. Sometimes you are the monster. Sometimes you fight anyway, as in this story from Kevin J. Anderson and Sherrilyn Kenyon.“My brother says you’re a troll, ’cause trolls...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: A Deeper Green
Sometimes you just have to find a way to say, “No.” Enjoy this story from Samantha Murray.Davvi was not happy. Juvianna could read it in the tension in his stride, the small crease lodged between his...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: La beauté sans virtu
I don’t often repeat authors for Saturday Storytime, but oh, I do like what Genevieve Valentine does when she’s writing about fashion. Though, maybe, “like” is not quite always the right word.The Old...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society
I treasure fantasies of manners when I find them. Science fiction of manners is far more rare these days, but this story by Henry Lien certainly qualifies. It was nominated for this year’s Nebula...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: El Cantar of Rising Sun
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