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

The Story We Used to Tell


NOT A BOOK
    

The Foster Portfolio


Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    

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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