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The Flowering of Nightmares and Dreams
I eyed his gun and followed him inside. This was all wrong—the fate I’d been avoiding for months. I resented the baby for it. My…
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Gurok’s Last Love
PaiMeisDong: The AI doesn’t reflect my choices at all. An hour into movie mode, Gurok started making out with some dude.
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The Psyche Passes the Time
“It’s like”—the gatekeeper sighed—“everyone here is very, very broken. You don’t really walk through a door into the corridor if you’re happy. And then because…
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The True Things Archive
New Arrivals, Recent Departures, Sanitation Report, Where’s Nurse Dana?, and Deaths. She briefly considered a section for births, but only two babies had been born…
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The Underground Gardeners
But like hear me out. What if. Okay? What if we don’t get in Death’s car. Not right this minute. Okay?
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Jolly Cooperation
“Believe me, Miriam, I don’t want to be here anymore than you.” He said gravely. “But this is wizard business.” Miriam put her hands on…
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Razzmatazz
Every light in the house was on. I had insisted. My sister, oddly a perfectionist on this point only, complained it was too hard to…
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Invasive Species & Their Habitats
Tourists who visit the beaches of Santos Beniz close their eyes and attempt to enjoy the sunshine, but can never truly rest.
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The Widdershin
If he thought of himself at all, he thought Widdershin, for that was the last time he’d had flesh and blood and bones, when he…
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Then There Was
She turned to see the man frozen in time, bottle knocked back with the glass on his lips, patrons halted mid-conversation, their jaws slack, the…
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Alternate State presents: Monument in Ruins
Outings like this will eventually kill me, he thinks.
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Seeds
This year was Wrr’s first pilgrimage. It was worried. What if it got lost? What if it got hit by one of the lumpy beings?
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