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A Performance for Painted Bones - The Dark Magazine - 0 views

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    Fade in. The street is ermined in thick fog. The corner of a building solidifies through the mist, all filigree balconies and tall, winking windows. Hibiscus and hydrangea droop over the ledges like spent revellers. via Pocket
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"Don't Embezzle, Kids," by Natalie Ho - Defenestration - 0 views

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    "I wanna be a billionaire, so freaking bad…" Yaritza hummed the catchy tune to herself while scrolling through the WikiHow page "How to Embezzle Money" on her middle-class 11. via Pocket "Don't Embezzle, Kids," by Natalie Ho - Defenestration via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2PszCxM
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Without Exile by Eleanna Castroianni - 0 views

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    Luciole. I dreamed I was swimming in the seas of my homeland again. My hair turned into seaweed thick with petrol; my mouth tasted like radiation and uranium. via Pocket
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On the Other Side of the Sea - Nerine Dorman - omenana.com - 0 views

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    Annetjie and I take turns carrying the bag of Ma's ashes. The bag isn't very heavy, but our arms are tired and our feet stumble over every rock and ditch. via Pocket On the Other Side of the Sea - Nerine Dorman - omenana.com via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2gVVSAk
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Veilonaut's Dream by Henry Szabranski - 0 views

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    Sometimes the Discontinuity kinks and curves and flips about as if it is alive. Openings slide along its vast length like undigested morsels down the gullet of a cosmic serpent. via Pocket Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy The Veilonaut's Dream by Henry Szabranski via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2KiiBlT
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No. 252 Rue M. le Prince | Weird Fiction Review - 0 views

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    The following story first appeared in architect and author Ralph Adams Cram's 1895 collection Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories. via Pocket No. 252 Rue M. le Prince | Weird Fiction Review via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2vilCNM
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On Good Friday the Raven Washes Its Young - 0 views

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    On Good Friday the Raven Washes Its Young via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2ONlNJ0 "On Good Friday the raven washes its young, as this world curses me with frogs and snaketongue; so this world should tell me face to face, who have I wronged in my life in this place." -Hungarian Folk Song Splosh creak. via Pocket
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"The Little Terror" by Will F. Jenkins | The Saturday Evening Post - 0 views

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    "The Little Terror" by Will F. Jenkins | The Saturday Evening Post via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2OQtaPM There was no crashing roll of thunder when the principles of psychological acosmistic idealism became practicalities in the world inhabited by Nancy. Her mother had no twinge of uneasiness, and her father was reading his newspaper. via Pocket
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Was She Wicked? Was She Good? - Nightmare Magazine - 0 views

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    Was She Wicked Was She Good - Nightmare Magazine via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2nUG0kQ She leaves the small creatures in tortured juxtapositions. Her mother and I find them on the porch steps, in the garden, drowning in small puddles, the green hose dripping water from the copper nozzle, guilty as blood. via Pocket
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"Cicisbeo" by M. John Harrison | Weird Fiction Review - 0 views

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    "Cicisbeo" appears in M. John Harrison's 2017 collection You Should Come With Me Now, published by Comma Press. We're also featuring a review of the collection by Christopher Burke. Summer was half over before it had even begun. via Pocket untitled via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2pwmNa8
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"How to Avoid Getting Asked to Be a Bridesmaid," by Cassie Title - Defenestration - 0 views

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    First, be antisocial. In kindergarten, when the teacher asks you to share crayons and play nicely with the other children, don't. There's no point. via Pocket "How to Avoid Getting Asked to Be a Bridesmaid," by Cassie Title - Defenestration via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2L8Qztz
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Wings of Earth by Jiang Bo - 0 views

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    Jiang Xiaoyu didn't move. "Time to ratchet things up a notch." Max didn't seem to have noticed Xiaoyu's trepidation. "We can't let your trip be in vain. Now then, down on Earth, you might try to jump the last three steps of a staircase. via Pocket
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Strange Horizons - Old Fighter Pilots By Samuel Jensen - 0 views

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    It is dawn. In 1997, in Brigham City, Utah, Alexis Tromble is already awake. via Pocket
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"Pamphlet for New Humans," by Mercedes Lucero - Defenestration - 0 views

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    So you're a new human in the world. Welcome! This pamphlet contains some important information you should know. We understand that this may be quite overwhelming for a new human like you. New humans are becoming rare these days. via Pocket
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The Heart of Owl Abbas | Tor.com - 0 views

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    A composer in an unstable city-state accidentally discovers the perfect singer for his work-a clockwork man-and sows the seeds of revolution. via Pocket
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Eldridge | 365tomorrows - 0 views

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    Doctor Jessup is terribly polite. We're stirring our coffees before he asks his first question. "You asked what started it. That question is the answer. I can't remember when it became an actual question, though. via Pocket
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Of All the Orbits in the Universe… | 365tomorrows - 0 views

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    You had to fall into mine. Lord, but you are a sight for jaded eyes. Hair like liquid night, eyes a man could drown in, lips that form a bow Robin Hood would kill for. via Pocket
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In the Rustle of Pages, by Cassandra Khaw | Shimmer - 0 views

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    Li Jing looks up from the knot of lavender yarn in her hands, knitting needles ceasing their silvery chatter. The old woman smiles, head cocked. via Pocket In the Rustle of Pages, by Cassandra Khaw | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2PlsMdj
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These 5 books go 6 feet deep - 0 views

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    Grave robbery. If you think it's a relic of gothic novels, think again. Now that the first generation of body-modified tech-bros and computer-implanted one-percenters sleep under tombstones, there's a ton of gear in the ground. via Pocket
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We Lilies of the Valley, by Sonja Natasha | Shimmer - 0 views

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    If Yvonne presses her cheek to the thick window of the space station, and cranes her neck just so, she can see a crescent slice of Earth, marbled in desert. She traces what she can see of the western coast of Mexico. via Pocket We Lilies of the Valley, by Sonja Natasha | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2B3fnj6
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