Two Truths and a Lie, by Sarah Pinsker

[Single]

★★★☆☆

(Horror) Stella’s helping an old high-school friend clean out his dead brother’s house, but the brother was a hoarder, and the task is horrible in several ways. (11,890 words; Time: 39m)

The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye, by Sarah Pinsker

[Uncanny]

★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention

(Horror) Zanna settles into a remote mountain cabin to write her next book. No internet. No phone. No distractions. (8,158 words; Time: 27m)

Escape From Caring Seasons, by Sarah Pinsker

[Anthology]

★★★★★ Who Knew a Slow-Motion Chase Could Be So Exciting?

(SF Thriller) Zora and Anya hoped to spend their golden years in an assisted living facility they helped design. But now it’s under new management, which is keeping Anya in the hospital, so Zora decides to break her out. (8,299 words; Time: 27m)

I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise, by Sarah Pinsker

[Uncanny]

Not Rated No Speculative Element

(Non-fiction) An account of various famous artists, writers, and musicians who lived in Manhatttan in the 1930s. (5,344 words; Time: 17m)

Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing, by Sarah Pinsker

[BCS]

★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention

(High Fantasy) When teenage Guerre is called to be a cropsinger, she makes a big sacrifice to serve her family and community, but her brother refuses to accept it. (8,688 words; Time: 28m)

The Court Magician, by Sarah Pinsker

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(High Fantasy) In which we learn how the new court magician was recruited and find out how even a “market rat” can qualify. We learn that there is real magic, but it comes with a price. (3,148 words; Time: 10m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Wind Will Rove, by Sarah Pinsker

[Asimov's]

★★★★☆ Great Setting With Deep Themes

(Generation Ship) The ship lost most of its historical records some years back, and the narrator tries to use music to maintain a connection with distant Earth. (14,537 words; Time: 48m)

Recommended By: SFRevu+1 RHorton+1 NClarke+2 Nebula+2 Readers+0 Hugo+2 Locus+2

The Smoke Means It's Working, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Superhero Humor) Dora wants to be a superhero’s sidekick, and she thinks a job running a rescue robot at the scenes of supervillain attacks is a way to get her foot in the door. (3,679 words; Time: 12m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

And Then There Were (N-One), by Sarah Pinsker

[Uncanny]

★★★★★ Intricately plotted, Moving, and Fun

(SF Mystery) The inventor of trans-multiverse travel invites hundreds of instances of herself to a conference. It’s great fun until one gets murdered. (18,912 words; Time: 1h:03m)

Recommended By: RHorton+2 Nebula+2 Hugo+2 Sturgeon+2 Eugie+2 Locus+2

The Ones Who Know Where They Are Going, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Fantasy) You have lain in your cell long enough to forget how to walk. Then you see sunlight and realize someone has left the door open. (1,785 words; Time: 05m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

A Song Transmuted, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Cyber SF) Katja has been all about music from infancy, but she wants to do something really transformative. (2,966 words; Time: 09m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Under One Roof, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Horror) When newlyweds Courtney and Josh rent an old Victorian in Baltimore, they're told to stay out of the attic. But they hear noises up there at night. Footsteps. (5,564 words; Time: 18m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended

It's debatable whether to call this horror or low fantasy.

Talking to Dead People, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Near-Future SF) Gwen and Eliza are college roommates who start a business making miniature houses that can talk about the murders committed there. (4,694 words; Time: 15m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: SFRevu:4

Left the Century to Sit Unmoved, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Modern Fantasy) Shay and friends jump from the rock into the pond, even though stories say that sometimes it keeps a teenager or two. (2,241 words; Time: 07m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Clearance, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Slipstream) A mother tries to find something for her teenage daughter at a beach resort where four different worlds seem to intersect. (3,381 words; Time: 11m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Recommended By: RHorton:4

The Mountains His Crown, by Sarah Pinsker

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(SF) The narrator's farm is threatened by a sequence of increasingly irrational demands by the distant emperor. (6,736 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Recommended By: RHorton:4

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, by Sarah Pinsker

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(Near-future SF) Bay lives alone and subsists off things that wash ashore from cruise ships and such. Then Gabby washes up, alive, and complicates her life. (7,596 words; Time: 25m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended

Recommended By: NClarke Nebula

Songs in the Key of You, by Sarah Pinsker

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In the near future, all the cool High school kids wear "Kurzwailers" on their wrists, which play music that's customized for them alone. Aisha's family is too poor for her to have one, but she does have a gift for creating music. (2,700 words; Time: 09m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: SFEP

Our Lady of the Open Road, by Sarah Pinsker

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One of the last live bands struggles to do performances in a mostly-online world. (16,300 words; Time: 54m)

Rating: ★★★★★, Award-Worthy

Recommended By: SFRevu:4 SFEP

And We Were Left Darkling, by Sarah Pinsker

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A childless woman is consumed by dreams that she has a baby. (3,098 words; Time: 10m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended