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(Magical Realism) A girl who sells ice
cream at the airport copes with body parts appearing in the ice cream vats.
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(Modern Fantasy) Eva goes to a
mysterious hotel in an out-of-the-way town to try a sleep cure for her ennui.
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(Modern Fantasy) Imani mourns the loss
of her grandfather, so she goes to a clinic where sufferers of chronic grief
can get over it by learning to “airswim.”
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As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around an
Altar of Love by Julian K.
Jarboe1
Time: 22m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 10/16/17
(Modern Fantasy) In the Azores
islands, as the world’s last snake woman heads home from her bookstore and
gets ready to reincarnate herself, she reminisces about the excavation of
Knossos, which she had known in its glory.
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(Horror) Serena comes to London for a
set of business meetings, but is haunted by mermaids calling to her from the
mirrors. Or are they zombies?
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(Metafiction) Cynae lives in a house in
the woods, where she making a living spinning silk. She has reasons to want
to be alone.
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(Near-Future SFF) Bilqis, the only real doctor in a dying community
of religious exiles, finds something strange when she examines a pregnant
woman.
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(Horror) Temple’s new thesis
supervisor takes her down town to show her the city in a way she’s never seen
it before.
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(Magical Realism) In a riverside
village in Ecuador, a girl identifies with a mythical figure who once sought
help in the river of the condor.
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(Military SF) Wounded in battle,
Captain Carla Perea was the only pilot in the recovery center, but today she’s
joined by Captain Sun Gaang.
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(Literary Fiction) A young woman is
fascinated by a young man whom she only sees from her window.
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(Post Apocalypse) HiQIRR was built to
rate national highways and report problems, but no one listens anymore. Only
Krace, and he wants HiQIRR to look for other surviving humans.
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(Modern Fantasy) Father Jean-Paulo has
come to Lacuna to bring an old dying priest home, but the golem girls in the
Burlesk are a powerful distraction.
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Le lundi de la matraque (Nightstick Monday)
by Claire Humphrey Time: 16m (ShortStory)
Issue: Strange Horizons 05/08/17
(Historical Fantasy) In 1968 Montreal,
Gus joins the FLQ and helps mount terrorist attacks in the name of Quebecois
independence.
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(Planetary SF) The Terravine colony
has grown to where it needs to build a sewage plant, and, as Magistra
Descendant, Sara is right in the middle of it.
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(Slipstream) Ingrid can talk to the
soul of the city, and she has something she wants from it. And vice versa.
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(Horror) It’s not healthy to listen to
the music on the record, and Malik is determined to destroy whoever made it.
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Only Calculate the Motion of Heavenly Bodies
by Marcia Richards1 Time: 07m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 02/13/17
(High Fantasy) The kingdom’s security
depends on its goddesses, so it’s a big problem that they all want to die.
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(Modern Fantasy) Yemi serves the
Nigerian goddess, Oshun, answering the prayers of believers, but she works
out of the LA office, which handles Americans of Nigerian descent, and she
never gets the best cases.
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Owl vs. The Neighborhood Watch
by Darcie Little Badger Time: 11m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 07/10/17
(Modern Fantasy) Nina knows that owls
appear to warn us of impending catastrophe, but what does it mean when one of
them keeps harassing you?
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(African Folklore Horror) In the
darkness, a Sasabonsam hangs from a tree waiting for suitable victims to walk
underneath. You shouldn’t go out alone.
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(Post Apocalypse) In the ruins of the
world, Snow learns that hope for the future lies to the north, and she makes
plans to go there.
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(Alien Invasion) Only juvenile aliens
are capable of original thought, so we can't even tell the adults that
they're destroying our world. Reaching the juvenile's means going deep inside
the enormous females.
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The Birding: A Fairy Tale by Natalia Theodoridou Time: 28m (Novelette) Issue: Strange Horizons 12/18/17
(Apocalypse) A plague has turned
almost everyone in the world into birds, but Maria is determined to make her
way home and find her husband.
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(Modern Fantasy) Shafiq has a
birthmark on his face shaped like a banana. This may have some connection to
his father’s belief that people came from monkeys.
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(Horror) The narrator wants to bring
her father back from the dead, but first she has to trick her brother into
helping eat his cremated remains.
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The Fox Head Barks Facing Seaward
by Natalia Antonova1 Time: 16m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 06/12/17
(Slipstream) The narrator grows up in
a thinly-disguised Ukraine where things are gradually falling apart.
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The Lights We Carried Home by Kay Chronister Time: 16m (ShortStory)
Issue: Strange Horizons 02/06/17
(Cambodian Horror/Mystery) Thirteen
years after Dara’s sister Sopha disappeared, a foreign film crew comes to
their village asking awkward questions about what really happened to the
little girl.
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(Mainstream) Young Kai takes a German
couple up one of the Karsts near Guilin, China, to explore one of the caves.
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The Person You Are Trying to Reach Is Not Available
by Andrea Chapela1 Time: 20m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 06/26/17
(SF) In an age where death and dying
are rare, the narrator’s mother decides she’s had enough of life.
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(Modern Fantasy) The narrator and her best friend
explore the beach where other teens hang out, but the real action is in the
little cave with the boys from the sea who have tails instead of legs.
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These Constellations Will Be Yours
by Elaine Cuyegkeng2 Time: 16m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 08/07/17
(Space Opera) The empire “harvests”
psionics and integrates them into their FTL starships. A starship content
with her lot foresees a violent future when she recounts her story to a girl
reluctant to be harvested.
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They Will Take You From You by
Brandon O'Brien1 Time: 20m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 05/01/17
(Alternate History) Back in the
fifties, the Benefactors came to Earth and made some people “geniuses.” Now, as
those people die, the Benefactors “harvest” their bodies. Akeem hates them
for this, and he fears his grandmother might be next.
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(Horror) At a drunken party, Scarlett
tells the new boy a ghost story she’d promised her now-dead best friend she’d
never repeat.
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Twelve Pictures from a Second World War
by Nghi Vo
Time: 03m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 09/04/17
(Alternate History Fantasy) Captions
on pictures from a very different WWII than the one in the history books.
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(SF) The Arnos power grid has a
problem, but the entities that run the power satellite are having
difficulties of their own—including not knowing how long ago this problem
started.
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(SF Humor) After Charlie is unfrozen,
Kit guides him around the future. It’s, like, TOTALLY not what he expected,
and yet, like, kinda familiar, LOL.
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(Fantasy) When Koha sees Ihiteru
walking on the river, she persuades her to stay a few days and help her.
Riverwalkers never stay long, but she hopes this will be an exception.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017 Strange Horizons Magazine
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