Colony 7 Estate
Glenna Swenson had better things to do with a day off than fight strangers over furniture.
Funny and chatty sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged funny and chatty, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 21 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Glass Ritual, Iron Contour and Scarlet Reverie. Readers usually start with “Colony 7 Estate” and “Last Show”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Funny and chatty sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Last Show
I was up on the solar catwalk fixing a dead junction box when I saw the pack come through the gate.
03 Ember and Ink
Six years ago I kissed a man at a party and he disappeared the next morning.
04 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…
05 The Empathy Job
*This one came from thinking about how we perform emotions at work, and what it'd be like if someone could literally see through the act.
06 The Lawyer and the Pilot
Samson Wilkinson boarded the Hauler on a Tuesday, if you could call any day a Tuesday out past Mars.
07 Spite Date Zero
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…
08 A Hot Truce in the Cold
Andrea Houston turned fifty-four on a Tuesday, which she considered the most honest of the weekdays.
09 Signal and Soil
The ferry dock at Broadhaven still had its old-world bones sticking up out of the water, and every time I came down here with a cart of…