Cut and Color
Seven months before I got on that shuttle, I was standing in my kitchen at eleven at night eating cold noodles straight out of the pot…
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged boss and employee (both adults, consensual), ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Glass Ritual, Flint Paradox and Fiction of Tawny. Readers usually start with “Cut and Color” and “The Lawyer and the Pilot”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Seven months before I got on that shuttle, I was standing in my kitchen at eleven at night eating cold noodles straight out of the pot…
Samson Wilkinson boarded the Hauler on a Tuesday, if you could call any day a Tuesday out past Mars.
The coil was being stubborn.
The mash smelled wrong.
Lyla Metcalf was forty-two years old and she had been drinking bad coffee out of the same dented thermos lid for eleven years, and she…
The dust-sled didn't like the heat, and honestly, neither did I.
*This one came from the image of a glass office above a golden tree and the ache of knowing something perfect has an expiration date.
I had been running the Gates-Haven circuit for eight months before I ever stepped inside the pawn-and-weave shop on Tanner's Row.