The Lightspeed story "The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars" is supposed to have an audio version, but it isn't working at this time. Hopefully it just me or else it's fixed by the time you read this.
Much more to come, including at least one link swiped from the extremely effecient Regan Wolfrom of SF Signal.
[Art from "Blood Trail" linked in Fiction directly below]
Fiction
• At Author's Site: "Blood Trail" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction. Time Travel. 2001.
"Detective Zack Wheldon solves cases. The tough cases no one else figures out. So, when the FBI comes seeking his help, he must decide which to choose: the serial killer he desperately wants to catch or the as-yet-unknown cases that will grow cold in his absence"
• At The Colored Lens: "The Land of Dreams" by Kate O'Connor.
"Cass set the last feed bucket down and leaned against the paddock fence, idly tugging a soft clump of gray-green dream pig fur out of the wire. The sun was breaking free of the distant mountains just in time to be swallowed up by blossoming amber clouds. She frowned, twisting the wool around her fingers. Just another normal day on the farm."
• At Escape Pod: "Mono No Aware" by Ken Liu. Science Fiction.
"The world is shaped like the kanji for _umbrella_, only written so poorly, like my handwriting, that all the parts are out of proportion."
• At Lightspeed: "Catamounts" by Marc Laidlaw. Fantasy.
"'I have my limits,' said Gorlen Vizenfirthe, hooking a full mug of cheap brew toward him with one of the petrified fingers of his stony right hand. A coarse black strand of beard-hair poked up from the foamy head like a sick fern’s frond. 'And you, sir, are quickly approaching several of them at the same time.'"
• At Lightspeed: "The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars" by Yoon Ha Lee. Science Fiction.
"The tower is a black spire upon a world whose only sun is a million starships wrecked into a mass grave. Light the color of fossils burns from the ships, and at certain hours, the sun casts shadows that mutter the names of vanquished cities and vanished civilizations. It is said that when the tower’s sun finally darkens, the universe’s clocks will stop."
• At Short-Story.Me: "A Helping Hand" by Rachel Anne Sloan. Horror.
"Hands, not eyes, are the windows to the soul. The study of hands has long been a fascination for people the world over. Palmistry began several hundred years before the birth of Christ. Leonardo Da Vinci is famous for his artistic study of human hands. I am no different in my quest for the knowledge hidden in hands"
• At Strange Horizons: "Complicated and Stupid" by Charlie Jane Anders
"The doctor was a gray-haired woman with a tongue piercing and a faded bluebird tattoo on one exposed forearm. She wore a white coat over a lacy halter top and hotpants. She kept looking down Benjamin's throat with a penknife as if his malaise could be pharyngeal."
Flash Fiction
- At Daily Science Fiction: "Super-Parents Last All Childhood Long" by Erica L. Satifka. Science Fiction.
- At Every Day Fiction: "A Song Not Fully Sung" by Beth Cato. Science Fiction.
- At Strange Horizons: "my father as a sonnet on the human meaning of inhuman stars" by Andrew Brenza. Poem.
- At 365 Tomorrows: "Djedi’s Device" by Jae Miles. Science Fiction.
• At Escape Pod: "Mono No Aware" by Ken Liu. Science Fiction.
"The world is shaped like the kanji for _umbrella_, only written so poorly, like my handwriting, that all the parts are out of proportion."
• At Protecting Project Pulp: "Rose Face" by Harold A. Lamb. Adventure.
"Where is the man who knows what is hidden in the heart of a woman?"
• At Strange Horizons: "Complicated and Stupid" by Charlie Jane Anders
"The doctor was a gray-haired woman with a tongue piercing and a faded bluebird tattoo on one exposed forearm. She wore a white coat over a lacy halter top and hotpants. She kept looking down Benjamin's throat with a penknife as if his malaise could be pharyngeal."
Other Genres
- Fiction at Short-Story.Me: "Rules of Everday Life" by Marilyn J. Holt. Mystery.
- Fiction at the Western Online: "Incident at Canyon Diablo" by Lowell "Zeke" Ziemann.
