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They never gave her a name; when she needs one she names and renames herself after the birds she sees from the watchtower, the birds she sees in the forest, whichever most recently caught her eye or arrow. via Pocket Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Heron of Earth by Vajra Chandrasekera via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2sxGNKl

Look at what we woke. We feed them lies and watch them burn for it. via Pocket Strange Horizons - We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice By Octavia Cade via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2rlZwc7

You're far more likely to have heard of my artist wife Lucille Hrade than of me. Her paintings have a way of communicating directly to people. via Pocket His Artist Wife - Lightspeed Magazine via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2KQpjQO

The dragon-horse awakens in moonlight. Drops of cold dew drip onto his forehead, where they meander down the curve of his steel nose. via Pocket Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse - Lightspeed Magazine via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2I5AXKY

You'll see them someplace you're going when you're trying to make the most of your time. via Pocket Aberration - Lightspeed Magazine via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2N8lasE

In a dark future America where consumerism and gun culture are unchecked, a young family teams up to celebrate the first shopping day of the Christmas season in the most patriotic way possible. via Pocket

Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won't let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you'd checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark. via Pocket

It's the last day of autumn, and Jiteh's twin brother is dead. He sits on the edge of his cot, thorns popping like seedlings from between his knuckles and poking through his sweaty scalp in a blood-slicked crown. "I'm scared," he whispers. via Pocket Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by A. Merc Rustad via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2w2Hnm7

T he tuktuk driver spits a small fiery globule out of the side of his mouth. It spins as it flies, striated by angular momentum, and burns a hole in the street, burrowing instantly into the asphalt. via Pocket Dharmas, by Vajra Chandrasekera | Shimmer via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2nS4dIg

The first time you saw her, she was getting change from the machine in the lavandería; copper and nickel clacked against her metal palms, a rain of clicks pricking your eardrums. via Pocket

Tell me the story about the light and how it used to fall through the rain in rainbows. via Pocket

No one will sleep until the Princess learns the Stranger's name. Liù the slave girl, who has loved the Stranger since before his exile, when he was a Prince, when he smiled at her-Liù alone knows who he really is. via Pocket

In the Church of St. Barnabé vespers were over; the clergy left the altar; the little choir-boys flocked across the chancel and settled in the stalls. via Pocket

Robot Nemesis - Bibliowiki via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MvmqcV The War of the Planets is considered to have ended on 18 Sol, 3012, with that epic struggle, the Battle of Sector Ten. via Pocket

Spacehounds of IPC - Bibliowiki via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2BioSPv A narrow football of steel, the Interplanetary Vessel _Arcturus_ stood upright in her berth in the dock like an egg in its cup. via Pocket

Tedric - Bibliowiki via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Bip01r "The critical point in time of mankind's whole existence is there--RIGHT THERE!" Prime Physicist Skandos slashed his red pencil across the black trace of the chronoviagram. via Pocket

Lord Tedric - Bibliowiki via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Mvmtp7 Skandos One (The Skandos of Time Track Number One, numbered for reasons which will become clear) showed, by means of the chronoviagraph, that civilization would destroy itself in one hundred eighty-seven years. via Pocket

Dominating twice a hundred square miles of campus, parade-ground, airport, and space-port, a ninety-story edifice of chromium and glass sparkled dazzlingly in the bright sunlight of a June morning. via Pocket Galactic Patrol - Bibliowiki via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2nQd0uC

By H. P. LOVECRAFT Ihave often wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong. via Pocket

Ever eager as we are to present our readers with unusual features, it affords us exceptional pleasure to offer for this issue, our Third Anniversary Number, what we believe is the most unusual fantasy feature of them all. via Pocket