Counterfeit Ledger
*This one came from a daydream about ledgers and lies, and how easily we trust a stamp and a signature.
Body worship sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged body worship, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 29 minutes. Writers to know: Midnight Porch, Pearl Phrase and The Juniper Horizon. Readers usually start with “Counterfeit Ledger” and “The Second Trick”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Body worship sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Second Trick
Cherie Gaines was twenty-eight years old and she could tell you the exact contents of her lunch cooler for the next eleven days without…
03 The Empathy Job
*This one came from thinking about how we perform emotions at work, and what it'd be like if someone could literally see through the act.
04 The Puppeteer's Knife
The plan for the evening had been simple, the way all my plans were lately.
05 Data Interference
Elle Montgomery was fifty-four years old and had spent thirty of those years turning data into arguments she usually won.
06 The Lawyer and the Pilot
Samson Wilkinson boarded the Hauler on a Tuesday, if you could call any day a Tuesday out past Mars.
07 The Night Baker's Key
The ovens needed feeding at midnight.
08 The Data Refinery Favor
My name is Casey Lowenstein, I'm fifty-two years old, and I came to New Ghent colony on Teth to disappear.
09 The Empathy Rep
I was thirty-two years old, a senior sales representative for Empathy Corp, and I had never actually used the product I sold.
10 The Auctioneer's Echo
The auction stage at dawn was the quietest place in Emberfall, and Tori Gunn had always liked that about it.