Dick, Pathfinder, Tor.com, and Flash Fiction

Some free text fiction to begin the day.  A new Pathfinder serial begins at Paizo, a new story is up at Tor.com, and a classic PKD story at Project Gutenberg. And there's some good flash fiction.  More later and don't miss SF Signal's latest free fiction roundup.


[Art from Thieves Vinegar]







Fiction
At Paizo: "Thieves Vinegar - Chapter One: The Old Quay" by Kevin Andrew Murphy. Fantasy. Pathfinder.
      ""Observe, Orlin." Norret scooped a vial of purple cabbage water from the leaves I was blanching for the afternoon's meal. "Note how the introduction of even a weak acid transmutes the deepest amethyst to brilliant fuchsia...." He added a drop of vinegar and swirled it."

At Project Gutenberg: "The Hanging Stranger" by Philip K. Dick. Science Fiction. 1953.
      "Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it. Then one day he saw it hanging in the town square."

At Tor.com: "The Finite Canvas" by Brit Mandel.
      "We are marked by what we have been. And erasing either of those can have unpredictable consequences..."


Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction:  "Live-Tweeting the Apocalypse" by Ian Crease.
• At Every Day Fiction: "Set Theory" by Sarah Crysl Akhtar. Science Fiction.
• At Nature: "Time and again" by Moshe Sipper. Science Fiction.
• At New Scientist: "Sleep" by Richard Clarke. Science Fiction.
• At New Scientist: "Too good to be true" by Jouni Sarkijarvi. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Indestructabuddies" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.