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.
(Historical Fantasy) At a special girls’ boarding school, the fun and games are interrupted when someone kills a girl from the local town. Margot and her friends are sure they can take care of themselves though. (6,007 words; Time: 20m)
(Fantasy) In lonely exile since the failed coup, Kashmai resists the pressure to write music for the President or to contact the oracle that would tell her the future. (4,146 words; Time: 13m)
(Hard SF) Grecia survived the destruction of San Francisco, and she works with Lena to make a simulation of the city for posterity. (3,900 words; Time: 13m)
Thirty years after a catastrophe in a Mars mission simulation, a woman writes letters to her dead lover--the one they call the Angel of death. (4,343 words; Time: 14m)
