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#FandSF #FavoriteStories #ScienceFiction #Fantasy Sep/Oct 2023

If I Should Fall Behind by Douglas Smith

The Trolley Problem becomes even more problematic when it is the whole universe on the track and the love of your life on the siding, but our hero finds a rather unique solution.

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Growths by Nina Kiriki Hoffman


The ethical dilemma of whether to change something in your child that might make their life easier, but fundamentally alter who they are.

This very short story kept me thinking for some days after reading.

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Sugar Steak by Jenny Kiefer

Flossing won’t help much after a meal of sugar steak.

Pairs well with Shinya Tsukamoto’s 1989 body-horror film “Tetsuo: The Iron Man.”

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On the Matter of Homo Sapiens by Kel Coleman

Three robots on a geocache scavenger hunt left by extinct humans discuss the ethics of bringing back homo sapiens.

Would make for a good episode of Love, Death and Robots.

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Night Haul by #AndrewCrowley

Dangerous cargo, but there is no safe route detour for this trucker. Dread and terror on the long haul road.

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Teatro Anatomico by #GettyHesse

The student delivers an anatomical lesson to her professor. Is the professor capable of learning?

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Upstairs by #TessaYang

Movin’ on up to the ultimate gated community comes with very mixed feelings and changes in the family dynamics. Can Sadie cope?

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My Embroidery Stitches Are Me by #AHumphreyLanham

Some mental and physical scars are so deep and intense they become simultaneously real and metaphorical.

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To Pluck a Twisted String by #AnneLeonard

Art speaks truth to power, which is why they seek to control and destroy. But art has many ways of speaking and cannot be denied.

A story for our times.

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Mixtapes From Neptune by #KarterMycroft

Music is one of the most potent evokers of memory…even in the depths of a gas giant.

Strangely, I read this between sets at a music festival with mixtape bumper music playing. Memories…

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Three Sisters Syzygy by Christopher Mark Rose @ChrisRose

Syzygy:
- yoked together (Greek)
- three celestial bodies in a line (astronomy)
- union of opposites (Carl Jung)

This story: all of the above

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What We Found In The Forest by #PhoebeWood

During a rite of passage, you don’t need the passage nor the rite; you just need to discover something that had been inside you all along. A prose poem.

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Sort Code by #ChrisBarnham

A graceful pas de deus back and forth through the corridors of time looking for an elusive something.

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Bayanihan by #MaricarMacario

You can go home again, but everything—you or home?—has changed. Good thing grandmas are the same every where and when. An immigrant song for everyone.

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Shining Shore by #MaxFirehammer

Don’t let the happy title fool you; this seaside village isn’t as quiet as it seems. An unsettling body-horror tale that will leave you squirming.

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Poetry:


How To Pack For a Quest by #MarySoonLee
How big is your bag?

 Some surprising but smart choices

Lost Lines From Ariel’s Song by #GretchenTessmer
Revenge is a dish best served with…playbills?

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The Giant’s Dream by #BethGoder

A Giant as a canvas and art considered as an autoimmune disease; should the artist find a new media?

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A Time to Sing by #EddieDMoore

It ain’t over until the fat dwarf…

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Plumage From Pegasus; I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Litterateurs by #PaulDiFilippo

Title says it all.

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Pedestals, Proclivities, and Perpetuities by #CelesteRitaBaker

Rooftops are better than pedestals because they are bigger on the topside.

“Send up my Be Relax™ masseur, Dolby Digital™ sound system and Food Ninja™. You can stay down there Charlie.”

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What to Do When a Protagonist Visits Your Generic Village by #DanPeacock

A guide for the NPC aspiring to become a protagonist. Will the circle be unbroken?

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The Day of the Sea by #JenniferHudak

The slow, relentless rise of The Sea; some will fight her and others will embrace her. Whatever the plan, she will change your world.

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A Meal for Frederick by #NickThomas


Compulsively feeding your obsessions is working out just fine. The dragon doesn’t seem to be getting fat and it has to eat, doesn’t it?

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A Half-Remembered World by Aimee Ogden @aimeeogden


Everyone wants something a little better for them and their kids, even those living on the back of their God--a giant sea-going crab

It's a hard scrabble existent, but in God’s wanderings you get an occasional glimpse of a different--and perhaps better-- place.

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NPC (or Eight Haxploits to Maximize Your Endgame Farming: A Player’s Guide) by #DaVaunSanders

Blurring the line between a world with confrontation, manipulation, violence and an on-line computer game.

While grinding and farming be sure to remember than NPCs are people too.

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Gather Me a Treasure by #JordanChaseYoung


Eternal devotion and sacrifice, but never a moment together; a tragic love story.

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Little Bird by #JillMcMillan

Her whole life centered around taking care of her stern humorless daddy. You can’t blame a woman for wanting to fly and sing a little.

An escape from quiet desperation on the Great Northern Plains...but at what cost?