The Star-Bear
By: Michael Swanwick
3.31
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda… At the Pub…
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1. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original
By: Cassandra Khaw
2.82
Format: 3 pages,
A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more
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2. Waiting on a Bright Moon: A Tor.com Original
By: J.Y. Yang
3.84
Format: None pages,
Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and it… read more
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3. Detonation Boulevard
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition
In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more
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- short stories
4. On the Fox Roads
By: Nghi Vo
4.04
Format: 29 pages, ebook
While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- short stories
- historical fiction
- fantasy
5. The River and the World Remade
By: E. Lily Yu
3.47
Format: 13 pages, ebook
When the waters rose, the people who stayed on the River learned they weathered the storms best tog… read more
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- speculative fiction
- short stories
6. Salt Water
By: Eugenia Triantafyllou
3.62
Format: 18 pages, ebook
While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
7. Evan: A Remainder
By: Jordan Kurella
3.17
Format: 21 pages, ebook
In " A Remainder," a new original work of short fiction from Jordan Kurella, Evan is suddenly cough… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
8. Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale
By: Kathleen Jennings
3.00
Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition
Delicately balancing between poetry and prose, award-winning author and illustrator Kathleen Jennin… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
9. The Sound of Reindeer
By: Lyndsie Manusos
2.78
Format: 23 pages, ebook
Ada’s holiday trip to meet her girlfriend’s family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she d… read more
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- speculative fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
10. The Dark House
By: A.C. Wise
3.20
Format: 22 pages, ebook
A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more
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- short stories
11. The Counterworld
By: James Bradley
2.51
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never e… read more
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- short stories
12. The Job at the End of the World
By: Ray Nayler
3.76
Format: 21 pages, ebook
A weary resilience worker should know better than no one is safe when the world is always ending..… read more
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- short stories
13. The Passing of the Dragon
By: Ken Liu
4.10
Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav… read more
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- speculative fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
"We’re all trying to tell our own story, And we make other people parts of our own stories. We’re meant to bring our stories together, to speak and listen and know that the stories are real and they m…"-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
"Life is one long story we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and in our quest for meaning, we make other people players in our own psychomachia. Sometimes the consequence of doing that can be…"-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
14. The Puppetmaster
By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa
3.71
Format: 15 pages, ebook
A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
15. After the Animal Flesh Beings
By: Brian Evenson
3.85
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more
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- speculative fiction
- short stories
16. How to Cook and Eat the Rich
By: Sunyi Dean
3.78
Format: 9 pages, ebook
A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
17. Ceffo
By: Jonathan Carroll
3.69
Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition
On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a … read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
18. Form 8774-D
By: Alex Irvine
3.91
Format: 54 pages, ebook
It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employe… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
19. Counting Casualties
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.69
Format: 18 pages, ebook
Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
20. The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener
By: Ramsey Shehadeh
3.68
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera… read more
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- short stories
21. The Star-Bear
By: Michael Swanwick
3.31
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda… At the Pub… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- short stories
- historical fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
22. The Three O’Clock Dragon
By: John Wiswell
3.80
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing drago… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
23. The Canadian Miracle
By: Cory Doctorow
3.61
Format: 23 pages, ebook
Short fiction from science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow!A contentious ele… read more
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- short stories
24. As the Last I May Know
By: S.L. Huang
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull t… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
25. Pretty Good Neighbor
By: Jeffrey Ford
3.22
Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition
There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands... At th… read more
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26. Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4)
By: Carrie Vaughn
3.94
Format: 32 pages, ebook
On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each other’s secrets (and… read more
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27. Headhunting
By: Rich Larson
3.61
Format: 36 pages, ebook
A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a … read more
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- fantasy
28. What It Means To Be A Car
By: James Patrick Kelly
3.61
Format: 15 pages, ebook
An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt… read more
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29. In the Moon's House (Lady Astronaut)
By: Mary Robinette Kowal
3.95
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
A new Lady Astronaut story! Dawn struggles to fit in with the rest of her team--the backup crew for… read more
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- historical fiction
30. Worth Her Weight in Gold (River of Teeth, #0.5)
By: Sarah Gailey
3.88
Format: 18 pages, Kindle Edition
Winslow Remington Houndstooth, notorious outlaw, handsomest heartbreaker in the American South, has… read more
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- historical
- short stories
- fantasy
- historical fiction
"She was faster than a secret spreading through a church picnic."-Sarah Gailey, Worth Her Weight in Gold (River of Teeth, #0.5)
31. The Hundredth House Had No Walls
By: Laurie Penny
3.58
Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition
Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and act… read more
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- fantasy
