Martian Cinema, by Gabriela Santiago

[Strange Horizons]

★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention

(SF Kids' Adventure) Three little girls look for Martian monsters in the empty lava tubes under the Mars Colony. It’s off-limits, but there can’t really be anything there, can there? (5,094 words; Time: 16m)

Malinche, by Gabriela Santiago

[Clarkesworld]

★★★☆☆

(Meso-American Alternate History Fantasy) Cortez invades a Mexico that has electricity, and he gets help from an unhappy slave girl. (6,888 words; Time: 22m)

Tamales in Space, and Other Phrases For the Beginning Speaker, by Gabriela Santiago

[Strange Horizons]

★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

(Aliens) Carmen works on a space station where she caters to a clientele of “Lenguas,” who are aliens whose language is based on scent, not sound. (2,351 words; Time: 07m)

As Long as It Takes to Make the World, by Gabriela Santiago

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(Slice of Life SF) Somewhere between the stars, the people from The Whole World that was scratch out a living in a small place they call The Land. (5,980 words)

Rating: 2, Not Recommended

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