Tag: science fiction
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The Last Flock of Birds on Earth
“Cat lady wasn’t going to make it.”
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The Science of Transient Cartography
Some maps have sharp and unforgiving lines, and others all the gentle curves of a summer leaf stirring in a plaintive breeze. Some maps recall what is, or what was, and others imagine what could be.
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Lichen Relic
They had lived in the abandoned mansion for a little over a year with fellow rogue scientists and nonconformist friends. A once-gaudy home now housed some of the most “dangerous” academics, hidden away in a part of the city no one bothered to investigate, filled with decrepit houses.
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The Carriers
“So many had fled to so many fabled destinations that there was no chance of knowing its exact origins.”
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Petromyces vorax
“And every time, we wailed in agony and called for her, for the mother who’d killed us.”
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A Sinner’s Gallery of Saints
“Anna silently prayed that the deceased sex bot owner managed to find salvation.”
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Exhilaration of the Dream
The Civologists’ Dilemma
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Last Winter In The Old Lake Chad
“Dajimi reminded herself that, for all their differences, the uppers were still human.”
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Move-In
“It’s official! I’m an emancipated minor on the way to my first apartment with one of the first dogs Redemption Station has ever seen.”
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Orlanda
“So I am in a category containing exactly one. Formerly female bio and a disaster at that, and now male, sort of, at least on the outside, and trying not be a disaster at that.”
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Oathbreakers of New Makassar
“Why didn’t the southern resistance fire back?”
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The Last Receipt
Nathan Velasquez, once a billionaire, finds redemption through community-focused initiatives after realizing the toll of his capitalist success.
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On Wildfire
In year 2353, Mish Gajewski reflects on her return to the Ribbon, facing spires representing past tragedy during the Wildfire celebration, intertwining personal and collective memory of eco-restoration.
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The Last Seed Library
“One grain is a lifetime, one revolution.”
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Beora
“…the legend said that where she stepped, the flowers grew.”
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Rainmaker
“With that, she’s gone. Kind-hearted Valerie, risking herself for a man she had never met, who certainly did nothing to deserve such selfless heroism.”