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FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Issue 14, Spring 2020 by DaVaun Sanders
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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.
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.
As Worlds Collide
Stephen Michell - 2020
This story was first published in THOSE WHO MAKE US: CANADIAN CREATURE, MYTH, AND MONSTER STORIES.
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.
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.
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.
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 War of the Wall
Toni Cade Bambara - 1980
The narrator describes the frustration that the people of the community have with the artist, who is not only painting over one of their favorite places to play, relax in the shade, and hold on to the memories of a lost friend, but the artist is unwilling to accept the hospitality from anyone who tries to offer her food, or find out what she is up to. When the narrator and Lou go out into the country to meet up with their grandmother, they learn about graffiti from dad and grandmother who are watching the news, and they decide that they are going to deface the painting when they return back to Taliaferro Street. When they return, however, they find that the mural was a beautiful picture that not only reminded the community of all of the things that they loved about the wall, but celebrated the vibrant cultural richness of their community.
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".
Tin House Magazine, Issue 72, Summer 2017
Rob SpillmanMark Waldron - 2017
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