Rocket Stack Rank™ (RSR) aims to help casual SF fans find and discuss great original short fiction. It reviews science fiction and fantasy short stories, novelettes, and novellas, and publishes articles of interest to fans.
(Clockwork Fantasy) Sorrow Farregon is a master perfumer, but the Queen wants something to make her conceive a child—which is challenging when the King is a clockwork automaton. (5,709 words; Time: 19m)
(Historical Fantasy) In nineteenth-Century Paris, a mute girl works for the opera, adopted by the company since they found her. Then she finds an unlikely ally to help her fight the magician who cursed her. (6,320 words; Time: 21m)
