Speak Easy, Suicide Selkies, by E. Catherine Tobler

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★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

(Historical Fantasy) They say that when women throw themselves into the sea, they turn into seals. Teen-age Louise, dying of tuberculosis, finds a magical seal skin that turns her into a new person. Then the owner shows up. (7,599 words; Time: 25m)

Mix Tapes From Dead Boys, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(Surreal SF) Hadly explores an old derelict spaceship that orbits Neptune. It ought to be inert, but somehow something still functions. (4,956 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement

The Three-Tongued Mummy, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(Horror) Jackson partly revived an ancient mummy to use in his carnival. The undead thing has an agenda too, though. (7,400 words; Time: 24m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

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Baroness, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(Planetary Exploration) In the methane oceans of Titan, Bishop and her crew try to figure out what happened to another ship which seems to have been crushed by a giant alien vessel. (5,105 words; Time: 17m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left, by Fran Wilde

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(Slipstream Apocalypse) About the time botany student Arminae Ganit daydreams about how nice it would be to be a tree, people around the world start turning into trees for real. (4,068 words; Time: 13m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Every Winter, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(Horror) Halla is an artist, and every winter she rents a villa where she can work with almost no human interaction at all. (5,300 words; Time: 17m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

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Ebb Stung By the Flow, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(Modern Fantasy) The train carrying Jackson's Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade is wrecked, and the three Fates walk the wreckage. (5,429 words; Time: 18m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

.identity, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(SF) As the Peragro approaches Kepler-726, the AI and the engineer investigate an attempted infection by a software virus. (5,290 words; Time: 17m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Cloud Dweller, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(Historical Fantasy) Vasily is a tightrope walker for the circus. When he thinks no one is around, he walks in thin air on lines of light only he can see. (8,295 words; Time: 27m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended

Andromeda of the Skies, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(SF) When little Alice fell into the lake, she didn't die; she found herself held captive on a strange world in the Andromeda galaxy. (4,887 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

The Abduction of Europa, by E. Catherine Tobler

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(Fantasy Science) Out on Europa, Marius has vanished and Kotto has come to rescue his partner, Bolaji. (5,965 words; Time: 19m)

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement

Silencer--Head Like a Hole Remix, by E. Catherine Tobler

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The narrator and his friend are transported against their will to different places and times where they shoot children in schools. (2,800 words; Time: 09m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix), by E. Catherine Tobler

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Technician at a Jovian helium-mining station has recurring dreams that something on the planet is calling to her. (4,532 words; Time: 15m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average