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Vaccine Season
Hannu Rajaniemi
This story appears in the anthology Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, edited by Gideon Lichfield and available for pre-order from The MIT Press.Content advisory: Discussion of pandemics, near-drowning
End Game
Nancy Kress - 2020
You can find this story in FOUNTAIN OF AGE by Nancy Kress.
Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot
Robert Olen Butler
A man dies suddenly and is reincarnated as a parrot. As a parrot, he struggles to find the words to say when he runs into his human wife.
The Years of my Birth
Louise Erdrich - 2011
Search for "Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich".
On the Lonely Shore
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 2019
Judith had neither. Her father had been a friend to Balthazar’s father. She was now an orphan, though she was no trembling waif-child. At twenty-two she was too old for such a designation. Nevertheless, the loss of her father and the subsequent funeral and the settling of his accounts had depleted their already meager purse. Judith’s father had gifted his only daughter fine frocks and hair combs, but that was years ago, before his luck turned, and the vast majority of such gifts had been sold.Judith found herself with a terribly small inheritance and no way to supplement this dismal income. That is, until she was summoned by Balthazar’s mother.
Let Those Who Would
Genevieve Valentine - 2020
Content advisory: violence
Staying Behind
Ken Liu - 2011
Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 61, the story is now also available online at tor.com as an excerpt of Liu's story collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories.
As Worlds Collide
Stephen Michell - 2020
This story was first published in THOSE WHO MAKE US: CANADIAN CREATURE, MYTH, AND MONSTER STORIES.
Tideline
Elizabeth Bear - 2007
This story was originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in March 2007. It is available in The Best of Elizabeth Bear.
FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Issue 14, Spring 2020
DaVaun Sanders - 2020
Cover artist: Dominique RamseyProse:GUARDIAN OF THE GODS // TOBI OGUNDIRAN - 5765 WORDSUNIFORM // ERRICK NUNNALLY - 5549 WORDSA TERMINAL KIND OF LOVE // VERONICA HENRY - 3041 WORDSYOUR ROVER IS HERE // LP KINDRED - 3415 WORDSPoetry:"Zombie of Palmares" by Woody Dismukes"Autolysis After Mentor Pursues Me While in a Relationship" by Jacqui Swift
In The City of Martyrs
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam - 2015
A young man searches for a memory.
The 5:22
George Harrar - 1999
When a fellow passenger on his usual train goes missing, a man begins to wonder if everything is as it seems.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 32: January/February 2020
Lynne M. ThomasBonnie Jo Stufflebeam - 2020
Clark, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Sharon Hsu, and Alex Bledsoe; reprint fiction by E. Lily Yu; essays by Meg Elison, Marissa Lingen, Malka Older, and Katharine Duckett; poems by Ada Hoffmann, Brandon O’Brien, Leah Bobet, and Betsy Aoki; interviews with Eugenia Triantafyllou and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Nilah Magruder’s Fallen Embers on the cover.