Novella
Novelette
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(Greek Myth) A sculptor falls in love
with his statue and asks Aphrodite to turn her into a real woman. Then things
start to go wrong--for all parties concerned.
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(Modern Fantasy) Gudrun, age 40, lives
in a house in the jungle on an island in Hawaii, waiting for the world to
come to an end.
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(Fantasy) Thirty years ago, Bet beat
the best sorcerer in the world, but at such cost she's been in hiding ever
since. Now the plague hunters need her help again, but something seems very
wrong.
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(Fantasy) In a war-torn Europe, a
refugee meets a man-sized cat, and they create a travelling show, picking up
others as they keep ahead of the fighting.
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(Historical Fantasy) In a magical Old
West, young Ellis has a love for the desert and an affinity for dead things.
Both of these attract unwelcome attention from strangers visiting from back
East.
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Short Story
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(Space Opera; Xuya) The mindship Snow
Like a Dancer and her cousin Lua struggle to survive an enormous perihelion
storm on their backwater planet.
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(Horror) Five twenty-something kids
from Manila take a beach vacation to reminisce about their college days. It's
the off season, but it's odd that no one else is there.
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(Folk Tale) A small, pink, human asks
Big Thrull's protection. She's the toughest mammoth herder there is, but
she's got a soft spot. His endless questions are a problem though.
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(Slipstream) Marisella's so obsessed
with the hot lady plumber that she almost doesn't hear that her drain is
clogged by a baby monster.
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(Post Apocalypse) The librarian in a
British village keeps to his old routine, even after everyone else is gone
and there's no news anymore.
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(Mainstream) Alonso and Amor Quijano,
children of a Philadelphia drug dealer, struggle to escape from their origins.
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(SF) Close to giving birth, Kamanti is
unhappy that her husband has to go off to confront the invaders to the south
of their village.
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(Fantasy) A nameless child, a petty
thief who mourns her dead sister, seeks help from a deeply feared magician.
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(Horror) A dead woman sees her
doppelgänger watching over her remains and wonders what she's up to.
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(Modern Fantasy) Two couples come to a
cabin by the lake to relax and enjoy four days together. Then one of them
disappears.
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(Horror) The girl he killed was much
more than merely human, and there will be consequences.
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(Near-Future SF) Lydia's boyfriend,
Ross, was just a brain in a jar. So how, exactly, did she injure him during
sex?
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(SF) Randall, a robot, investigates an
unfamiliar place: a home garden.
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(SF Horror) The narrator lies
conscious on an operating table while scientists dissect its body to study
its ability to regenerate.
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(Literature) In Victorian England,
Jennie keeps house at a rented summer estate where her brother's wife is
trying to recuperate from madness.
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The Desert
Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar by Rose Lemberg
Time: 11m (ShortStory) Issue: Uncanny 8
(Fantasy; Birdverse) Vadrai and Maru
begin a professional correspondence as fellow artisans, and over time it
becomes more than that.
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(Horror) Reinhart wanders in his
sleep, drawn by the ghost of a long-dead ancestor determined to drown him.
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(Horror) What if the Green Knight were
real? What if he were still alive? What if he had his own reality show? And
how does his wife really feel about the whole thing?
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(Fantasy) Rajesh does an excellent job
tending the queen's garden of girl-flowers, but he secretly steals people's
shadows for his collection.
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(Mainstream) The commitment-averse
narrator meets a man at a party and they begin a relationship.
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(Fantasy) Every year, Far Island rises
from the sea, and the spirits of the dead return to Near Island, until the
bone horses usher them back on the third day. The horses need a living rider,
and Rowan is sure she can do it and survive.
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(Fairy Tale) A young, newly minted
witch meets an equally green knight, and they go off together in search of
dragons.
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(Fantasy) The Tower Unwoven gives
animals human form, and old Cresa takes them in and teaches them. But this
naked wolf-boy is going to be more trouble than usual.
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(Slipstream) The narrator's mother can
write words on people's skins, and those words change who they are.
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(Horror) When newlyweds Courtney and
Josh rent an old Victorian in Baltimore, they're told to stay out of the
attic. But they hear noises up there at night. Footsteps.
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(Chivalry) When the queen sends her
young nephew on a quest, she sends Eddia LaCrosse along to keep him safe.
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(SF) A scientist mourns the failure of
scientists to anticipate the consequences of making contact with an alien
race.
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