Debt Frame
The letter came on a Tuesday, which felt like a joke because nothing good has ever come to me on a Tuesday.
Dry and wry sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged dry and wry, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Silver Current, Scarlet Reverie and Fiction of Tawny. Readers usually start with “Debt Frame” and “The Brewer's Price”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dry and wry sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Brewer's Price
*Hey there.
03 Last Shift at the Rebuild
Teresa Smithson walked into the bunker at dusk the way she had walked into it for fourteen years, which was to say without thinking much…
04 Borrowed Time
I was twenty minutes into clearing out my locker on my Thursday off, wearing yesterday's sock because I couldn't find the other one, when…
05 The Deadline Loop
Karl Wilkes was thirty-six years old and bored out of his skull.
06 Ghost Ferry
The ghost ferry on the I-5 overpass passed me going the other way, and it didn't even honk.
07 Cinderline
The wind currents above the Cinderline were lying that morning.
08 Respite Protocol
The cargo lifter had been complaining for the better part of an hour before it actually quit on them.
09 The Glass Wife
Gayle Paulson is forty-three years old, and she has been married long enough to know the difference between a man talking and a man…
10 The Groundsman's Choice
*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.