The Cleaner's Debt
The penthouse smelled like lemon cleaner and old money.
Dark and intense sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged dark and intense, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 25 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Plum Type, The Cobalt Prologue and Table of Sparrow. Readers usually start with “The Cleaner's Debt” and “The Slipstream Halt”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dark and intense sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Slipstream Halt
*This one came out darker than I expected.
03 Hemlock Hours
Gabrielle Wentworth stood at the front of the granary and tapped the slate with her stick.
04 The Time-Slip Waitress
The clock above the pie case says 11:47.
05 Debt of Echoes
Malik Dawkins was thirty-four years old, and he was watching a woman take his sound booth apart with her bare hands.
06 Resonant Pairings
Damian Sanders was twenty-eight and he could not remember the last time Grace had cried in front of him before tonight.
07 Orbital Bid
Amelie had watched a lot of people win things.
08 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.