The Slipstream Halt
*This one came out darker than I expected.
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged latex, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: The Pine Consonant, Coral Works and Sundown Wanderer. Readers usually start with “The Slipstream Halt” and “The Time-Slip Waitress”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
*This one came out darker than I expected.
The clock above the pie case says 11:47.
The shuttle doors opened and Triton Station hit me all at once.
Caroline Phlox was thirty-four years old, and she had learned the hard way, over the two years since a divorce and one year of a mostly…
The vat is winning.
The shift ended at 6:40 in the morning.
Nadia Voss was twenty-eight years old, and her job was stealing memories out of the heads of things that could eat her.
I've been a memory archivist on Cerule Station for six years now.
The shuttle from the surface took eleven hours and I slept through nine of them, which I counted as a personal victory.
Sasha Hendricks woke up before the sun on her eighth anniversary with Russell, and she could not for one second figure out why.