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Barbara Krasnoff is Brooklyn born and bred, and has the accent to prove it. She is Reviews Editor at The Verge & author of 35+ specfic short stories, including the 2016 Nebula finalist "Sabbath Wine." Her mosaic novel of interconnected stories, "The History of Soul 2065," will be published by Mythic Delirium on June 11, 2019.

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How the New Year Took Over From the Old Year

Published Dec 31, 2020 · 1,127 words (5 minutes) · 106 views

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Baby 2021 finds out what it's going to have to deal with -- a very quickly written fable for 2020.

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Featured December 29, 2020

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Why Penguins Can’t Fly: A Christmas Story

Published Dec 23, 2020 · 2,170 words (8 minutes) · 5 likes · 497 views

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Everyone knows reindeer fly because of magic. But few know the tale of where they got it—because all magic requires a trade, and flying doesn’t come cheap.

Barbara Krasnoff is Reviews Editor at The Verge, and is the author of more than 35 short stories, including the 2016 Nebula finalist “Sabbath Wine.”

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Symbiosis

Published Jun 23, 2020 · 4,377 words (16 minutes) · 299 views

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Do desktop computers feel?

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The Didibug Pin

Published Apr 5, 2020 · 5,720 words (21 minutes) · 332 views

Science Fiction labor

Lize spends her days harvesting cliffcrawlers for the Company, but she suspects there's a secret behind the insects that the workers aren't being told.

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