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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

The Foster Portfolio


Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    

End Game


Nancy Kress - 2020
    You can find this story in FOUNTAIN OF AGE by Nancy Kress.

The Story We Used to Tell


NOT A BOOK
    

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.