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 chastity, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Edition of Amber, Scarlet Reverie and Iron Index. Readers usually start with “Cut and Color” and “Last Pour at the Refuge”. 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…
Piper Benton was forty-three years old and she was wiping the same glass for the second time, which was a habit she'd picked up in the bad…
The ghost ferry on the I-5 overpass passed me going the other way, and it didn't even honk.
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…
The turbines were the first thing you noticed about New Meridian, even before you got inside the mountain proper, because the whole…
The cargo lifter had been complaining for the better part of an hour before it actually quit on them.
The thing you need to know about me is I don't lose.
*I wanted to write something quiet...