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Graham Robert Scott

Last Contact

Published Aug 15, 2019 · 944 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 44 views

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After an ape expert misses an appointment, a gorilla holds up traffic in his search for answers. [Originally published in Nature Futures and reprinted in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018.]

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Charlotte Platt

Manna from Above

Published Jul 17, 2019 · 1,506 words (6 minutes) · 103 views

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Manna from Above is a short story about death, rot, and the turning cycles of the natural world. The story is set in the same universe as Sacrament and Off Kilter, though at different timing, and features a favourite character of mine.

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Alex Isle

Last Lesson

Updated Jun 30, 2019 · 20,767 words (76 minutes) · 2 likes · 228 views

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This story is set in a world of extreme climate change, in a city now abandoned due to extreme climate change and known as the Nightside by those who chose to stay there anyway without the support of civilisation. Ellen, a school teacher, knows she should have seen the crunch coming but let herself deny it anyway. Now she needs to decide her unexpected future. This is a Work in Progress, not part of the four stories already published in Nightsiders .

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L.X. Beckett

Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling

Updated May 25, 2019 · 24,735 words (90 minutes) · 3 likes · 487 views

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Near-future journalist Drow sees his future crumble before his eyes when an ill-advised story crashes his social standing all around the internet and the world. He becomes desperate — so desperate, that he might just be willing to take part in an eccentric artstorm aficionado's dangerous piece of performance art.

Enjoy our first featured novella this weekend by L.X. Beckett, a Toronto-based writer and editor whose novel Gamechanger, set in the same universe, is now available for pre-order from Tor.

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Ben Serna-Grey

Murmur

Published Mar 20, 2019 · 3,524 words (13 minutes) · 2 views

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A story set in the same universe as "Sigh," and one that unfortunately has had a pretty rough publication history. Follows an old widower as he tries to make his way in this burnt out, dead world.

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Ben Serna-Grey

Sigh

Published Mar 20, 2019 · 1,995 words (8 minutes) · 12 likes · 1100 views

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You wake up, wires surrounding your head like a halo. You try to speak, but mechanical chirps emerge instead of words. The world may have ended, but your new life has just begun. This haunting story comes from author Ben Serna-Grey, a musician, writer, and fiction reviewer living in the Pacific Northwest.

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Michael McCormick

Snow, 2562

Published Oct 30, 2018 · 306 words (2 minutes) · 2 likes · 316 views

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In the year 2562, a mysterious manna falls from the sky.