links to other people's short stories 01
The backstory: Pocket is closing, right? and you can one click export a csv of your stuff, great, well done them, I guess. Naturally I imported that csv to Readwise Reader without looking at the file itself and some chugging later realised it was not a csv of my 55 unread items, it was 1600+ items that I'd EVER read in Pocket. I sighed with relief that Reader has keyboard shortcuts, & sorted shortest-to-longest & hit d and e a lot, & was left with a several-hundred-story anthology.
So here are some.
For He Can Creep - Reactor
A dark fantasy about Jeoffry, a cat who fights demons, a poet, who is Jeoffry’s human confined to an insane asylum, and Satan, who schemes to end the world.
Siobhan Carroll
The Blanched Bones, the Tyrant Wind
The city lives because we die: we, the shivering, bloody few, the girls who climb the diamond stair in the winter to serve ourselves to the dragon.
About the author
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Heron of Earth by Vajra Chandrasekera
Vajra Chandrasekera
How to Move Spheres and Influence People - Reactor
A Wild Cards story. An outcast learns how fit in at her school…
Marko Kloos
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! - Reactor
An android who knows nothing besides his work in a factory, is given one final week to explore the world before he is forced to undergo mandatory reprogramming, in this bittersweet precursor to TJ Klune’s IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS, now available in trade paperback!
TJ Klune
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Appointment in Vienna by Gabriel Murray
Gabriel Murray
Another Girl Under the Iron Bell - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: violence, sexual abuse, suicide, cannibalism There is no limit to the number of curses in the world. For each one the monks try to exorcise, ten more take its place. We are not here because we enjoy it though. Please don’t misunderstand. As you dip into steaming bath waters, entwine your bodies […]
Authors
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh by John Barnes
John Barnes
I'm considering getting Kobo Plus because, once you've dug past all the godawful omega fairy comphet, it does offer the Clarkesworld back issues. Maybe I'll get it over winter, to fill those dark hours.