Marie Vibbert
Snarky stories with robots, space ships, and blue collar sensibilities.
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Besides writing stories for markets like Analog and F&SF, poems, comics, and video games, Marie Vibbert has been a medieval (SCA) squire, ridden 17% of the roller coasters in the United States and has played O-line and D-line for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team. Follow her @mareasie on twitter
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The Toymaker's Daughters
Published Jun 2, 2021 · 3,764 words (14 minutes) · 1 like · 43 views
Fantasy Science Fiction found family urban fantasy
Claire is a wooden automaton working in a dive bar. Today she gets to meet her sister for the first time. This originally appeared in the "The Internet is Where Robots Live Now" anthology
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Learning to Fly
Published Jun 15, 2020 · 2,415 words (9 minutes) · 55 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction fabulism single dad
A child learns valuable lessons about art, self-confidence, and flying on a failed dental contest poster.
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Infinite Boyfriends
Published Apr 25, 2020 · 3,555 words (13 minutes) · 1 like · 414 views
Humor Science Fiction alternate universes Mad science
Nothing helps a girl get over heart break like a best friend, especially if that best friend is a mad scientist with the ability to pull new versions of your boyfriend from alternate timelines.
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Fourth Dimensional Tessellations of the American College Graduate
Published Feb 5, 2020 · 4,733 words (18 minutes) · 1 like · 655 views
Science Fiction Math Climate Fiction
Alana's ex-boyfriend has a problem with disappearing bees. The cause is more mysterious than they imagine. Reviewed by Cat Rambo: “…the ending made my heart leap and it is my favorite story of 2018 so far. I will hold onto my copy of this magazine forever because it contains it.”
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The Willing Body, the Reluctant Heart
Published Nov 21, 2019 · 1,852 words (7 minutes) · 1 like · 695 views
A body collects friends heart, lung, and brain to seek out these strange new aliens who seem to have only one intelligence per body. AnLab Reader’s Choice Finalist! Printed in Chinese in Science Fiction World November, 2019
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Brain Trust
Published Jul 3, 2019 · 3,980 words (15 minutes) · 2 likes · 735 views
This was my very first sold short story. I wrote it shortly after my wedding in Vietnam in 2001. Or I should say, I had already been working on the premise (the coopting of poor or third-world minds for distributed computing nodes, unappreciated minds become exploited labor) and a week in my mother-in-law's house made me change the setting.
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The Pits
Updated Jun 5, 2019 · 15,330 words (56 minutes) · 1 like · 514 views
Fantasy Humor Romance orcs erotica explicit
Orc porn! A high fantasy erotic romp. This is a gift to my subscribers to apologize for removing the previous orcporn epic. By reading this story you affirm you are at least 18 years of age, okay?
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Quirks
Published Apr 10, 2019 · 3,430 words (13 minutes) · 1 like · 803 views
Science Fiction near future labor unions
Collective Bargaining and Direct Memory Transfer -- watch out for the quirks.
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The First Trebuchet on Mars
Published Jan 2, 2019 · 2,326 words (9 minutes) · 4 likes · 963 views
Life is hard in a Mars research colony, but there's still downtime and plenty of boredom, which is why Jill Cooper built the first trebuchet catapult on Mars.
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The Wrong Way to do the Right Thing
Published Nov 7, 2018 · 4,073 words (15 minutes) · 1 like · 884 views
This story was written for a shared-world anthology, one intended to have a plot arc through it. I tried to advance that arc while also giving my readers some fun things to enjoy, and bring in a character from an earlier story.
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