Sister: Loki, by Arlan Andrews Sr.

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(Apocalypse) Loki works as a MercOp in an enclave in a ruined future St. Louis, killing bad guys remotely. (2,849 words; Time: 09m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Fall, by Arlan Andrews, Sr.

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(SF) Rist descends from the highlands and is captured by the lowlanders, who've never seen a human being as small as him. He struggles to learn their langauge and adapt to their ways. (17,923 words)

Rating: 2, Not recommended, Incomplete

 

"Fall" is the third story in a series that started with Thaw, continued with Flow, and will presumably be concluded with one or more future stories. 

Trajectories of the Heart, by Arlan Andrews, Sr.

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(Science Fantasy) Francisco's flying a solo mission from low Earth orbit to Lunar orbit when his ship has a terrible accident, and he's go no one but himself to rely on. (~7,500 words)

Rating: 2, Not Recommended

 

Orion, Rising, by Arlan Andrews, Sr.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2015; ~1,000 words
Rating: 3, Good, ordinary, story

Short-short. In 2024, a bunch of guys in a bar watch the first moon landing in decades, complaining that it's not different enough from the first landings.

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Pro: It's amusing that private enterprise would build a moon colony but that Congress would persist in funding the Ares program anyway.

Con: Anyone who understands the real difficulty of space flight will find this absurd. Especially the time frame.

In the Mix, by Arlan Andrews, Sr.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2015; ~1,300 words
Rating: 2, Not recommended

A young woman in the late 21st Century makes a living creating a very strange sort of online art.

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The notion that what makes Regina's art special is her use of old-fashioned books makes for a nice surprise.

The first few paragraphs are almost impossible to decipher. That's probably the point--it shows us how alien her culture is to ours, even after just 50 years or so--but it goes on for way too long. There is actually no story here at all--this is just a slice of life.