“Through the Uprights” by Richard Butner
“I want to kick a field goal,” Robin said. He didn’t say: I want to learn how to kick a field goal. Robin wasn’t process-oriented. He wanted to be the sort of person with the ability to kick field...
View ArticleHeaven Under Earth by Aliette de Bodard
Husband’s new spouse is brought home in a hovering palanquin decked with red lanterns, its curtains displaying images of mandarin ducks and kingfishers—the symbols of a happy marriage. First Spouse...
View ArticleMusici by Derek Zumsteg
The last note of Enri’s exit aria resounded in the hall, the heavy air humming and electric, as the company’s performers smiled in the lamplight and accepted scattered applause. The audience, roused...
View ArticleLooking into 2013
We’re reading through submissions and finding some great stuff (we are aware that there’s a backlog of recommended fiction due to our editor, but he’s working on it). We thought it would be nice to...
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