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The Didibug Pin

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

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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Shane Halbach

O What Freedom, This Great Steel Cage

Published Apr 4, 2020 · 1,015 words (4 minutes) · 65 views

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This is a story about how technology plays a role in disability, anxiety, and addiction. I have been thinking about it a lot lately; if you had to sum this story up in one phrase it would be, "Social Distancing"!

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Elinor Caiman Sands

Fish on Friday

Published Apr 3, 2020 · 556 words (3 minutes) · 45 views

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An ordinary British couple go on holiday to Florida--and become alligators. What can possibly go wrong?

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Holly Lyn Walrath

Stardust

Published Apr 2, 2020 · 2,047 words (8 minutes) · 1 like

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A sex worker finds sentience in a futuristic world steeped in jazz nostalgia.

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Tabatha Wood

From the Deep

Published Apr 2, 2020 · 3,835 words (14 minutes) · 12 views

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Earthquakes are caused by monsters under the earth, a giant squid advances on Wellington, and a young boy knows the magic words to keep the city safe. But will his grieving father believe him?

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We added two mystery snails to our betta fish tank and they're quite fascinating to watch. This one was making its way across the tank eating the trace amounts of algae forming on the glass. I followed it around with the macro lens and took this photo while it had its mouth open.

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Tabatha Wood

Rabbit

Published Apr 2, 2020 · 5,567 words (21 minutes) · 74 views

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In a rebuilt future, once destroyed by war and climate disaster, a young girl has accepted her role as hunter, provider and protector in the wake of her father’s death. When her deaf younger sister is followed by a stranger, she does what she believes she must to keep her, and their village, safe.

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James Van Pelt

Sacrifice

Published Apr 2, 2020 · 4,075 words (15 minutes) · 30 views

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Anthropology is filled with stories of cultures that practiced ritual and sacrifice to anchor their place in the world. There's little to reason to doubt that the far-removed generations of the survivors of a spaceship that crash landed on an empty but livable planet might not develop their own rituals,unrecognizable to their technological ancestors.

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Rebecca Birch

Quarantine Summer

Published Apr 1, 2020 · 5,010 words (19 minutes) · 15 views

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Trapped within a quarantine shield, in a town where a biological weapon kills all but the children, a young man struggles to protect his unexpected--and unwanted--family of orphans.

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