Ember and Ink
Six years ago I kissed a man at a party and he disappeared the next morning.
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged hair pulling and hair play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 20 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Sundown Wanderer, Iron Contour and Signal of Velvet. Readers usually start with “Ember and Ink” and “The Brewer's Price”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Six years ago I kissed a man at a party and he disappeared the next morning.
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Damian Sanders was twenty-eight and he could not remember the last time Grace had cried in front of him before tonight.
Amelie had watched a lot of people win things.
The meeting hall of the Saltside Clock Tower filled up the way it always did before a vote, which was to say slowly and with a lot of…
The shuttle ramp hissed down and the gravity hit me wrong before my boots even touched the deck.
The wind currents above the Cinderline were lying that morning.
The salt out here never stops.
The scentweave machines hum.