The Survival of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson

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★★★☆☆

(Horror; Molly Southbourne) In this sequel, a clone of the original Molly tries to live a quiet life, but that’s not easy when people are looking for her and most of them want to kill her. (19,569 words; Time: 1h:05m)

You don’t need to read the original novella to appreciate this one, but if you read this one first, it will definitely spoil the earlier one. See related articles on Tor.com.

The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson

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★★★☆☆

(Horror; Molly Southbourne) Molly has an affliction: whenever she bleeds, the blood grows into duplicates of her. Duplicates who always want to kill her. (21,176 words; Time: 1h:10m)

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Decommissioned, by Tade Thompson

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(Military SF) Castle agrees to talk with a reporter about her experience being a cyborg in the recent war. (4,810 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

The Apologists, by Tade Thompson

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(Post Apocalypse) The aliens who accidentally destroyed the human race employ the few survivors in an effort to rebuild London. (8,604 words; Time: 28m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average

Child, Funeral, Death, Thief, by Tade Thompson

Apex Magazine, September 2015; 3,934 words
Rating: 3, Good, ordinary, story

A young Nigerian man learns that he is clairvoyant--which opens up lots of temptation.

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The story moves briskly along, and it makes its exotic location feel very real. The description of what it feels like to be clairvoyant is excellent.

It certainly avoids the cliche happy ending, but "and so I learned to be a happy thief and lived happily ever after" is a very unsatisfying ending.