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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.
As Worlds Collide
Stephen Michell - 2020
This story was first published in THOSE WHO MAKE US: CANADIAN CREATURE, MYTH, AND MONSTER STORIES.
Let Those Who Would
Genevieve Valentine - 2020
Content advisory: violence
In The City of Martyrs
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam - 2015
A young man searches for a memory.
The Collected Tymon the Black
Richard Parks - 2017
Or at least that's his reputation. Some reputations are deserved, some not. Or perhaps Tymon's notoriety is a means toward quite a different end.
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.
End Game
Nancy Kress - 2020
You can find this story in FOUNTAIN OF AGE by Nancy Kress.
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
The Specialist's Hat
Kelly Link - 1998
Something is creeping up the stairs, something is standing outside the door. Something is sobbing, sobbing in the dark; something is sighing across the floor... "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.Come Join Us by the Fire S2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries including Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Shaun Hamill, Daniel M. Lavery, Matthew Lyons, T. Kingfisher, Seanan McGuire, Nibedita Sen, and Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.The full Table of Contents is as follows:Cassandra Khaw- "Some Breakable Things"Sarah Langan- "The Changeling"Shaun Hamill- "Music of the Abyss"Caitlín R. Kiernan- "Standing Water"Tade Thompson- "Bone"T. Kingfisher- "Origin Story"Silvia Moreno-Garcia- "The Sound of Footsteps"Laird Barron- "Jōren Falls"Damien Angelica Walters- "Tooth, Tongue, and Claw"Sunny Moraine- "If Living is Seeing I'm Holding My Breath"Matthew Lyons- "Blood Daughter"Jessica Guess- "Mama Tulu"Daniel M. Lavery- "Prodigal Son"Seanan McGuire- "Emergency Landing"Indrapramit Das - "You Will Survive This Night"‘Pemi Aguda- "Things Boys Do"Kelly Link- "The Specialist's Hat"Clay McLeod Chapman- "The Fireplace"Nibedita Sen- "Pigeons"Camilla Grudova- "Ghost Bread"Catherynne M. Valente- "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles"Brian Evenson- "The Cabin"Maria Dahvana Headley- "The Krakatoan"Craig Laurance Gidney- "Spyder Threads"Mariana Enriquez- "Things We Lost in the Fire"Gabino Iglesias- "The Song of the Lady Rose"Nick Antosca- "The Quiet Boy"
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
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.
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.