Fiction
• At AE: "First Date" by David Tallerman. Science Fiction.
"How many nights has Johnny walked by the House of Mirrors? How many times has he glanced at its drab plastic facade and wondered? He was never scared to come, but they take the rules seriously in the House, it’s all legit, and if your biomet says you’re under twenty-one they won’t so much as look at you. So Johnny waited — not with patience, but with determination stubborn as faith. And now it’s time. Tonight he can do more than look."
• At Author's Site: "Craters" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction.
"What they don’t tell you when you sign up is that the work takes a certain amount of trust. The driver, head covered by a half-assed turban, smiles a little too much, and when he yes-ma’ams you and no ma’ams you, you can be lulled into thinking he actually works for you."
• At The Colored Lens: "Blessings by the Shade" by S. L. Nickerson. Alternative History. Mythic Fantasy.
"They still tell stories about the day I was born, of how a lilac comet streaked across the stars and the volcano ceased spitting fires to the heavens. They call it omens but I call it a conspiracy of convenience. This is what made me High Priestess, because I am blessed."
• At Cosmos: "Angels Call in Strange Disguise" by Christopher K. Miller.
"The clown’s presence means that you are, in all probability, going to die tonight. There’s not much your sailfone hasn’t told you. They don’t send these clowns to just anyone."
• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Tying of Tongues" by Kristi DeMeester.
"When the hooded woman came to our village, her bloodied skirts trailing behind her, the old mothers whispered behind chapped hands, and the animals found their holes and hid."
• At L5R: "The Sparrow’s Fate - Part 1" by Robert Denton. Fantasy.
"When Moshi Rukia awoke on the third and final day of her visit to the Suzume Hills, she looked out her window to find the valley covered in a thick layer of snow. She knew winter came quickly in the valley, she just didn’t know it would be this quickly."
• At Lightspeed: "The Sense of the Circle" by Angélica Gorodischer. Science Fiction.
"Have you seen those houses on Oroño Boulevard, especially the ones that face east, those dry, cold, serious, heavy houses, with grilles but without gardens, maybe at the most a tile patio paved like the sidewalk? In one of those houses lives Ciro Vázquez Leiva, Cirito."
• At Lightspeed: "The Dream Detective" by Lisa Tuttle. Fantasy.
"In the beginning, I was not attracted to her at all. Quite the opposite. I don’t know if it was intentional on her part, and honestly, I’m not the sort of dick who always judges women on how hot they are, but if there’s any situation in which a person’s attractiveness matters, I think everybody would agree it’s a blind date."
• At Weird Fiction Review: "The Love of Beauty" by K.J. Bishop.
"Near the middle of the night, Seaming dithered in front of the brick arch – formerly a minor gate in the old city wall and now a decoration in a lane. If there existed a main entrance to the Ravels, it was that arch. It stood only half a furlong from the glitz of Cake Street, but the short distance marked a change of register from the demimonde to the underworld proper."
• At The WiFiles: "God’s Great Acrimony" by D. C. Golightly. Speculative Fiction.
"I will always savor the taste of blood. Even though I starve myself of its nourishment for strictly selfish reasons I can’t help but crave the bitter embrace of its crimson flavor."
Flash Fiction
- At Daily Science Fiction: "Skipping Stones" by Devin Miller.
- At Every Day Fiction: "A Day Before All of Those Nights" by Sarah Crysl Akhtar. Fantasy.
- At Quantum Muse: "The Collider" by Harris Tobias.
- At Strange Horizons: "Origin" by Heather Sommer. Speculative Poem. Audio.
- At 365 Tomorrows: "Extremophile" by Aaron Koelker. Science Fiction.
- At 365 Tomorrows: "The End of the Extinction" by Isla Kay. Science Fiction.
- At 365 Tomorrows: "Ascensual" by Daniel Martin Fairbairn. Science Fiction.
• At Author's Site: "The MVP Episode #24" by Scott Sigler. Science Fiction. Football.
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• At Beam Me Up: "Part 4 of Know How Can Do" by Michael Blumlein.
"Of course we'll wait. How silly of me to think otherwise. Science begins wit h observation, and Sheila Downey is a scientist. We'll watch and wait together, al l three of us, the woman who made me what I am, the worm that isn't there, and me."
• At Clarkesworld: "86, 87, 88, 89" by Genevieve Valentine.
"You are part of a vital effort to recover evidence of terrorist activity preceding the Raids, and on a larger scale, to preserve the heritage of a historic neighborhood of New York City."
• At Cthulhu: "House on the Borderland, parts 20 and 21" by William Hope Hodgson. Horror.
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• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 08 - The Beasts of Tarzan" Adventure.
"Tarzan has fallen into Rokoff’s trap. Pursuing the Russian, Tarzan has left his comrades behind to forge ahead. He comes to a tribe of cannibals who report that Rokoff is a day ahead of them"
• At LibriVox: "Jewels of Gwahlur" by Robert E. Howard. Fantasy.
"Conan The Barbarian is after fabulous treasure in this exciting story. But he finds himself in more difficulties than he had counted on. Crafty and powerful human opponents seek to skin him alive, bestial mutations seek to rip his arms off, denizens of the deep want to devour him whole and scantily clad dusky beauties try to waylay him at every step."
• At Lightspeed: "The Sense of the Circle" by Angélica Gorodischer. Science Fiction.
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• At Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: "Lost Waters" by Kreg Steppe.
"Daniel Pleasant, agent of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, is assigned to the United States of America to track down some missing items from the Archives. Pleasant is partnered up with a clankerton from the Office of the Supernatural and Metaphysical (O.S.M.) Elijah Paxton, and together the two set off to track the missing Archive items, their power rumoured to be able to bend time and space itself."
• At Protecting Project Pulp: "Adventure’s Heart" by Albert Dorrington. Adventure.
"A curiously carved throne of sandalwood stood at the far end of the chamber, its highly polished sides glinting with innumerable pearls inset. Above the throne gleamed a naked skull." - First published in Top-Notch, May 1, 1922.
• At Slected Shorts: "Expect the Unexpected"
"Guest host Neil Gaiman presents tales with surprises. Jane Yolen’s “The Babysitter” is a contemporary Gothic with a twist; James Thurber’s classic “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” introduces a milquetoast with attitude; Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” anticipated our media driven lives; and Thurber’s “The Wood Duck” seems to have nine lives."
• At Toasted Cake: "Don't Look Down" by Anatoly Belilovsky.
"A whistling in my ears: wind. It's called wind. I'm flying, flying in the wind, under the blue that's called the sky, toward the brown that's called the ground. I feel it push my hands, my legs, my face. I feel a weight against my back."
Other Genres
- Audio at The Way of the Buffalo: "The Chase" by Ken Liu. Surreal. Flash.
- Audio at Crime City Central: "Oedipus Shrugged" by Copper Smith.
- Audio at Every Day Fiction: "Twist Twist Shake" by E.M.Pearson. Suspense. Flash.
- Fiction at The New Yorker: "The Judge’s Will" by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
- Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Love Is All Around" by Raine.
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