Spite Trip
The galley smells like burnt rehydrated coffee and someone else's feet.
Breathless and eager sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged breathless and eager, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 28 minutes. Writers to know: Iron Contour, Signal of Velvet and Quill of Gold. Readers usually start with “Spite Trip” and “The Data Leash”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Breathless and eager sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Data Leash
Brock Araragi, forty-two years old and a data analyst by trade, stood on his rooftop garden with a glass of cheap pinot and a grudge.
03 The Spiteful Orbit
I'm Tyra Harlow, twenty-four, and I stack grocery store bargains like most people stack receipts.
04 The Cartographer of Borrowed Tides
Nadia Voss was twenty-eight years old, and her job was stealing memories out of the heads of things that could eat her.
05 Brushfire and Blossom
I came to Fennic's Rest on a Tuesday in late spring, twenty-eight years old and freshly divorced, with a trunk full of enchanted junk and…
06 Ember to Ash
I was thirty-four that autumn, and I thought I knew every kind of tired.
07 Served With Desire
The scentweave machines hum.
08 The Missing Key
The sleet started an hour out of Reykjavik and never let up.
09 Cleaning the Wrong Hour
I took the night cleaning job because my son moved out in September and the house got too quiet.