Colony 7 Estate
Glenna Swenson had better things to do with a day off than fight strangers over furniture.
Neighbors sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged neighbors, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Flint Paradox, Iron Contour and Sundown Wanderer. Readers usually start with “Colony 7 Estate” and “The Clocktower Bet”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Neighbors sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Clocktower Bet
The key stuck in the door of the Weaver's Rest, and Nellie Lowenstein gave it the same shoulder-jiggle she gave the clinic's supply…
03 Counterfeit Ledger
*This one came from a daydream about ledgers and lies, and how easily we trust a stamp and a signature.
04 The Slipstream Halt
*This one came out darker than I expected.
05 The Auctioneer and the Engineer
So here's how my night started, and I'll tell it straight because there's no point lying to you people.
06 The Dormancy Bet
I turned fifty-five in March.
07 The Data Leash
Brock Araragi, forty-two years old and a data analyst by trade, stood on his rooftop garden with a glass of cheap pinot and a grudge.
08 Air Debt
The beeping came at 0340 station time, which Irma Byrne had learned over eleven years on Meridian-7 was the hour the station liked to…
09 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…
10 Switch House
The job ran late.
11 Ghost Ferry
The ghost ferry on the I-5 overpass passed me going the other way, and it didn't even honk.
12 Brushfire and Blossom
I came to Fennic's Rest on a Tuesday in late spring, twenty-eight years old and freshly divorced, with a trunk full of enchanted junk and…
13 Reclamation Shift
My wrist-comp chimed the end of the shift right as I was finishing the last manifest line, and I sat there a second in the little office…