Fiction
• At Author's Site: "Killing Time" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction.
"JP pedals her ancient Schwinn with Paula on the handle-bars, laughing, her head thrown back. Paula keeps her bare feet outstretched, afraid that her toes will get caught in the spokes. The morning is bright, the sun a yellow demon that will create haze in the afternoon. It is seven a.m. It is summer. And they are off to play tennis before arrival of the blistering heat."
• At Lightspeed: "Breathless in the Deep" by Cory Skerry. Fantasy.
"When Jantz spotted a black skeleton jutting up above the water, at first she thought it was just a tide-battered tree, but before long she could make out the shredded ropes and scraps of sail. The wooden bones were the charred yardarms of a sunken ship."
• At Lightspeed: "End Game" by Nancy Kress. Science Fiction.
"Allen Dodson was sitting in seventh-grade math class, staring at the back of Peggy Corcoran’s head, when he had the insight that changed the world. First his own world and then, eventually, like dominos toppling in predestined rhythm, everybody else’s, until nothing could ever be the same again. Although we didn’t, of course, know that back then."
• At Strange Horizons: "A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)" by Seth Dickinson.
"He must in retrospect have been a god the entire time. He has not just now transcended whatever limen encompasses the mortal. Rather, Naveen has systematically eliminated all other hypotheses regarding Hayden's provenance, and only this remains."
Flash Fiction
- At Daily Science Fiction: "Nova Verba, Mundus Novus" by Ken Liu. Magical Realism.
- At Every Day Fiction: "Giuseppe’s Boughs" by Brandon Nolta. Fantasy.
- At Flashes in the Dark: "And The Darkness Fell" by Dawn Napier. Horror.
- At Strange Horizons: "Abduction" by Laura Madeline Wiseman. Poem.
- At 365 Tomorrows: "Intentional Paradox" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.
Audio Fiction
• At Lightspeed: "Breathless in the Deep" by Cory Skerry. Fantasy.
"When Jantz spotted a black skeleton jutting up above the water, at first she thought it was just a tide-battered tree, but before long she could make out the shredded ropes and scraps of sail. The wooden bones were the charred yardarms of a sunken ship."
• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "Ask a Foolish Question" by Robert Sheckley. Science Fiction.
"It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations."
• At PodCastle: "Far as You Can Go" by Greg van Eekhout. Fantasy.
"I didn’t go to school because I was allergic to the neuroboosters, but that didn’t mean I was stupid. It just meant I had a lot of time on my hands. Mostly, I hung out with Beeman, scrap-combing all over Ex-Town and trading metal and electronic bits and whatever for food and goods and services. We were good businessmen."
• At StarShipSofa: "Limited Edition" by Tim Maughan.
"Eugene Sureshot, one mile tall, strides through the wasteland. Where his limited edition trainers hit the ground deserts bloom, city blocks rise and mountains rip themselves from the ground. Vistas erupt from each footfall, spreading like bacteria, mingling, creating landscapes. New places from the dead ground. Civilisations rise, intricate detail evolves around the soles of giant feet."
• At Strange Horizons: "A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)" by Seth Dickinson.
"He must in retrospect have been a god the entire time. He has not just now transcended whatever limen encompasses the mortal. Rather, Naveen has systematically eliminated all other hypotheses regarding Hayden's provenance, and only this remains."
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