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The Problem with My Dachshund

“The problem with my dachshund is that he pees.

Constantly. Unrelentingly. On rugs and furniture and laps.”

Your Face You look so much like you. I feel like I could reach out and touch your face. Your face! It’s so good to see your face.

Compassionate Simulation Static. Startle. Wait.                                    Wait.

Love Is Never Still Through every moment of carving, I want her as one wants a woman.

Between Dragons and Their Wrath with An OwomoyelaI will probably die today. If not, I will probably die tomorrow.

Tea Time The hatter is a poor man. He has no hats of his own.

Grand Jeté What’s the difference between a person and a doll?

 

Featured stories.

If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love If you were a dinosaur, my love, you’d be a T-rex.

The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window My story should have ended on the day I died.

Eros, Philia, Agape A robot’s quest to know love in all its forms.

How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses.

A Memory of Wind How does a human girl become the wind?

 

Science fiction.

The Monster’s Million Faces Aaron’s mind just won’t cooperate. And neither will… he.

Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind On the last day of her life, the light-eyed child finds a pair of ancient skeletons.

Diving after the Moon To him, the moon was the future.

A Monkey Will Never Be Rid of Its Black Hands As the cut fell, I saw no blood.

Scene from a Dystopia You’ve read this book before.

 

Traditional fantasy.

Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia The line between art and magic is a treacherous thing.

Maiden, Mother, Crone with Ann Leckie She may do it all, but it all goes awry.

Monstrous Embrace I am ugliness in body and bone, breath and heartbeat.

Decomposition His enemy’s two dead girls–they were the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.

Great, Golden Wings Lady Percivalia watched the young cinematographist’s hands.

Needle and Thread with Ann Leckie She could return to the sidhe . . .  but what would they take from her this time?

The Stable Master’s Tale I did not see a dragon again for many years.

 

Contemporary fantasy.

Fields of Gold When Dennis died, he found himself at a party.

Detours on the Way to Nothing I’m the girl on the roof.

Abomination Rises on Filthy Wings I’m not going to kill my ex, but I probably should have. Don’t tell anyone I said that.

Skyscrapers Under smokestacks, beside stairs, in the sudden green of precarious gardens.

What Lies at the Edge of a Petal Is Love He fell in love with her slender paleness like the stalk of an exotic plant.

Where Shadow Meets Light Princess Diana’s ghost emerges at night.

 

Myths, fairy tales, and retellings.

All That Fairy Tale Crap Never ride a pumpkin when you can steal cab fare.

Marrying the Sun The wedding went well until the bride caught fire.