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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.

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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.

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

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…

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

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

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

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.

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

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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The Break-In by #KristineKathrynRusch


Raiders try to secure high-tech weaponry being auctioned off as relics and objects of art.

Set in the Diving universe and a sequel to The Death Hole Bunker with a big TO-BE-CONTINUED at the end.

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Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel by #DerekKünsken

The author makes a convincing argument that evolutionary pressures may—indeed, must!— lead to time travel being used to adapt to environmental conditions.

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The Dead Letter Office by David Erik Nelson @dave0


doxxed sorter woman

frosty dim lit boiler room

a gift from Satan


A disturbingly creepy story of defilement, retribution and closure.


#AsimovsScienceFiction #FavoriteStories Sep/Oct 2023
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In the Fox’s House by #LisaGoldstein


Same situation, but different species; a woman finds herself facing a very familiar decision. Will she have the opportunity to realize it in time to make a better choice?


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Tears Down the Wall by #MichèleLaframboise

The rent is too damn high!

- Jimmy McMillan


In a world controlled by rentiers, the city is a great place to work and play…if you can afford a flat. Sleeping in a tent on the side of a high rise is affordable, but accidents—and murder—can happen.

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The Pit of Babel by #KofiNyameye


So they gathered their strength and their Engines and in common purpose began to dig; and the name of the project was Babel.

- Book of Amrainaiyeh 25:5

Going down worked out so much better than going up.

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The Unpastured Sea by #GregoryFeeley


Exploring Neptune's depths.
Plant the flag.
And don’t worry because we will bring you back safely.
Guaranteed!

#AsimovsScienceFiction #FavoriteStories Sep/Oct 2023
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The Ghost Fair by Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar


Down to the stones where old ghosts play.

- I. S. Anderson


Old ghosts and old feuds on an old earth - one of the first folk gives a fresh perspective on things.

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Deep Blue Jump by Dean Whitlock


Kids are often used to produce wealth for the rich and powerful because their small size and helplessness are quite useful to their masters in certain situations.

Is there only the one ultimate escape from a life of slavery and abuse?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

A Time to Sing by #EddieDMoore

It ain’t over until the fat dwarf…

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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

Title says it all.

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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.”

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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.

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#Fantasy #SF #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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.

#Fantasy #SF #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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.

#Fantasy #SF #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

Gather Me a Treasure by #JordanChaseYoung


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

#Fantasy #SF #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

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?

#Fantasy #SF #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

We Go On Faith Alone by #KSWalker

Just a thin pane of often unseeable glass—metaphorical or real—separates us from our long journey and final destination.

#Fantasy #SF #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

Serenity Prayer by #FaithMerino


The cycle of abuse; "My daddy learnt it from his daddy, and his daddy afore him. If it was good enough for them, by God, it is good enough for me! Just shut your pie hole and accept it."

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

The Pet of Olodumare by #JoshuaUchennaOmenga and #OghenechovweDonaldEkpeki

The Godhead’s pet is lost/borrowed/stolen and ends up serving as the catalyst for the sculpting of humans and their eventual realm.

A wonderful #Afropantheology creation story.

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

The Very Nasty Aquarium by #PeterSBeagle

Guppies and duppies—this was no garden variety fin rot. “She had taught junior high school English and feared nothing.”

#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

Vanishing Point by #RJTaylor

For two exobiology surveyors, things are not always what they seem. A proper perspective doesn’t always help because sometimes your perspective isn't proper.

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That it for this issue, which was above average with some very good stories.

My short TooteReviews are all rolled up on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5619637421

#AsimovsScienceFiction #FavoriteStories Jul/Aug 2023
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What>We>Will>Never>Be by #RobertReed

Revenge is a dish best served cold…VERY cold. The continued saga of the Great Ship and the times after the creation of the Scar.

#AsimovsScienceFiction #FavoriteStories Jul/Aug 2023
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My Sister Told Me To Write A Story About the Genetics Of Inheritable Godhood by Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker

An idea is just an idea. It is up to the author to break the story.

BTW--where in god's name does her sister come up with these crazy ideas?

#AsimovsScienceFiction #FavoriteStories Jul/Aug 2023
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Have You Seen Bitsy? by #JamesVanPelt

Extra! Extra! Read all about it--Intrepid newspaper girl delivers moral lesson to her supposed betters!

#AsimovsScienceFiction #FavoriteStories Jul/Aug 2023
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Bridges by #SeanMonaghan

Ages after the robots went away, the abandoned intelligent machinery supply folk with housing, food, clothing, and even bridges.
 What happens when the AI programing goes awry?

An excellent allegory for the mayhem that cancer causes.


Pairs well with the anime “Cells At Work.”