Novella
Novelette
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Gorse
Daughter, Sparrow Son by Alena
Indigo Anne Sullivan1 Time: 25m (Novelette) Issue: Strange Horizons 08/08/16
(Fairy Tale) Jocelyn is a princess a
lot like Sleeping Beauty, but with a much better relationship with the
fairies. Not that that helps her.
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(Horror) Gracia returns to the
Barcelona neighborhood where she grew up to visit her grandmother and attend
a funeral.
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(Magical SF) Captain Stephana
Levitanova commands the first "quantum impulsion platform" which
will allow her to explore the galaxy without leaving St. Petersburg.
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(Portal Fantasy) A personel manager is
transported to a medieval world as an outcast, but she does have a purpose
there, if she can only find it.
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Short Story
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A Spell to
Retrieve Your Lover from the Bottom of the Sea by Ada Hoffmann Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 11/07/16
(Magical Allegory) Your lover has sunk
to the bottom of the sea. You're a witch with tremendous powers, but can you
really save him?
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Applied
Cenotaphics in the Long, Long Longitudes by Vajra Chandrasekera
Time: 21m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 09/05/16
(Near-Future SF) An interview with a
simulation of the dead artist, Satka, who still has a big online following
years after her death.
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(Modern Fantasy) Kyria comes from an
old, famous, magical family in England. She's a modern woman, but her father
still thinks he can set a bride price for her.
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(Android) Brother Francis is an android
in an orbiting monastery. Their human patron has taken an interest in him,
and involves him in studying a mysterious, ancient golden android.
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(Urban Fantasy) Heath comes to a park
in Portland, Oregon to rid a client of some sort of spirit that's been
pestering him. Business has been bad, so he really needs this to go well.
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(Historical Fantasy) On the eve of the
Nazi takeover, a young German man's first assignment fixing a living statue
becomes more complicated than he expected.
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(Modern Fantasy) Ancient Dido walks
the streets of modern Carthage, cursed to find and fill the cracks she once
created.
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(Slipstream) Grandpa is gone, but the
young narrator is determined to win the Tastiest Ribs competition in his
memory, even if he's not quite sure how you're supposed to use the dragon.
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(High Fantasy) King Lazarus has
disappeared, and Queen Estigia suspects his pet panther may have had
something to do with it.
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(Alternate History) In 1949,
researchers attempt to harness "oriental lovebird energy" to cure
human comas.
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(Historical Fantasy) In 1987 Berlin,
Spit and Whirlwind stake out a man Spit should have killed 41 years ago.
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How High
Your Gods Can Count by Tegan Moore1 Time: 12m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 05/02/16
(Modern Fantasy) A troop of monkeys at
a Mayan Pyramid interacts with the tourists and broods on their creation
myths.
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How the
God Auzh-Aravik Brought Order to the World Outside the World by
Arkady Martine2 Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 01/18/16
(Fantasy/Myth) The goddess of order
has been flayed, and without the laws on her skin, the world will fall into
chaos. So she goes beyond the world to look for it.
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(Modern Fantasy) Twenty years ago, Jess
was a teenage swamp witch in the Everglades. She flirted with the boys and
took what she wanted, but Ben saw her for what she really was.
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(Hard SF) A human science team studies
the colossal wreck of an alien spacecraft.
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(Historical Fiction) In 1750s Québec,
Marie Corriveau was executed for murdering her husband. But was she a witch?
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Left The
Century To Sit Unmoved by Sarah
Pinsker Time: 07m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 05/16/16
(Modern Fantasy) Shay and friends jump
from the rock into the pond, even though stories say that sometimes it keeps
a teenager or two.
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Life In
Stone, Glass, And Plastic by José Pablo
Iriarte Time: 14m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 06/13/16
(Modern Fantasy) Sergio is called to
remove an offensive mural, but when he touches it, it makes him
"remember" things from other people's lives.
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(Far Future SF) Far, far in the
future, Percel still loves Emlune, despite all the ages that have passed and
all the changes. Or at least one copy does.
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(Historical Fantasy) In a prison in
18th-century France, Montague struggles to redeem himself by completing one
last magical device before he dies.
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(Hard SF) A corroded railing gives
way, and Kent falls from a Venusian cloud city to near-certain death. But it
takes a long time to fall fifty kilometers.
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(Present-Day SF) Ulna works for
"The Department," investigating a murder. Her lover, Marrow,
believes The Department committed the murder itself.
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(SF) Haelice pilots the starship Sanctuary
of Divine Intent on behalf of the "angel" who commands it. The
angel has detected one of her kind, a feral, and risks the starship chasing
it.
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(Hard SF) By 2076, no one wants to eat
real meat anymore, so a conscientious rancher looks to find something
meaningful to do with her last 900 head of cattle.
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The First Confirmed
Case Of Non-Corporeal Recursion: Patient Anita R. by Benjamin
C. Kinney1 Time: 11m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 06/06/16
(Paranormal) Anita used to study
ghosts, but now she is one, and she's finding it frustrating to always seem
to be arguing with her husband.
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(Fantasy) Iyob mourns the loss of his
wife and daughter, and he decides to ride a balloon to heaven and demand an
explanation from God.
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(Horror) Jimmy, a young tramp
hitchhiking through the Midwest, gets a ride with Suzie, a pottery teacher
who gives him an uneasy feeling.
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The
Opening of the Bayou Saint John by Shawn
Scarber Time: 12m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 02/08/16
(Horror) In New Orleans, women with
stillborn children can deliver them to the Bayou Lady, who gives them to the
luminous ones. But sometimes a grieving mother wants to accompany her.
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The Right
Sort of Monsters by Kelly Sandoval
Time: 12m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 04/04/16
(High Fantasy) Viette wants a child,
but she believes that her youthful visits to the "godswalk" left
her barren. Another visit, they say, would let her bring home a child. Of
sorts.
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(Far-Future SF) When a ship is ready
to die, it spawns an intelligent self-destruct entity inside itself. These
are their stories.
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The Three
Nights of the Half-Gent by Mário
de Seabra Coelho1 Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 12/19/16
(Horror) In life, he loved her from a
distance, and in death he still hesitates to look right at her, even though
she can’t leave the theatre. Is a half-man’s love stronger than death?
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The Troll
Who Hid Her Heart by Jenn
Grunigen Time: 15m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 10/10/16
(Virtual Reality) The narrator hunts
for the virtual trolls her grandmother created long ago.
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(Modern Fantasy) Leah has come a long
way to find a witch to lift the curse on her husband which sometimes turns
him into a beast.
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The Wreck
at Goat's Head by Alexandra Manglis1
Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 11/14/16
(Fantasy Time Travel) A Greek free
diver finds an ancient shipwreck where there was nothing at all just days earlier.
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(Near Future SF) Kellsey's a
transsexual 11-year-old girl. Improved technology makes that easier, but also
creates new problems, and she seeks advice from recordings her mother made
for her "son" before she died.
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(Slipstream) Some people are easy to
resurrect, some can't be, and some don't want to be. But everything has a
cost.
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Tower of the
Rosewater Goblet by Nin Harris2 Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 01/04/16
(Fantasy) Erheani wanted to be a
master storyteller, and the first task her teachers set for her was to update
an old classic tale. But there are tales within tales...
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(Portal Fantasy) In modern Finland,
Elna, her wife and their little child take a summer vacation at a family cabin
by a rural lake where something happened when Elna was 11.
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We Have a
Cultural Difference, Can I Taste You? by Rebecca
Ann Jordan Time: 12m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 04/18/16
(SF) Filo/Gee, an intelligent giant
amoeba, isn't the ideal college roommate, particularly since he experiences
the world through touching and tasting, which is hard on books, electronics,
and relationships.
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