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…
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy stories. Sci-Fi & Fantasy stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 22 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Sundown Wanderer, Glass Ritual and Shift of Ivory. Readers usually start with “Lost Key Found” and “Colony 7 Estate”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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61 62 Gravity Well
The argument started the way most of their arguments started, over a schedule nobody had agreed to.
63 The Slow Hours
The sun has been sitting at the same angle for three hours now.
64 Ghost Ferry
The ghost ferry on the I-5 overpass passed me going the other way, and it didn't even honk.
65 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…
66 Cinderline
The wind currents above the Cinderline were lying that morning.
67 The Last Request
Corey Webb was forty-two years old and had spent twenty years drifting from one market town to the next, spinning records for crowds that…
68 Dust Sprint
The dust-sled didn't like the heat, and honestly, neither did I.
69 The Caravan Road
The road through the Marrow Valley was the same as every other road.
70 The Glass Wall Interview
The turbines were the first thing you noticed about New Meridian, even before you got inside the mountain proper, because the whole…
71 Respite Protocol
The cargo lifter had been complaining for the better part of an hour before it actually quit on them.
72 Docking Bay Confessions
The coffee pot on burner three has been there so long it's basically a fossil.
73 Gale Lessons
The thing you need to know about me is I don't lose.
74 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…
75 The Maker of Small Celebrations
Val Crandall arrived at the Eclipse Pavilion at six forty on a Friday evening, which was fifteen minutes earlier than she needed to be…
76 The Empathy Rep
I was thirty-two years old, a senior sales representative for Empathy Corp, and I had never actually used the product I sold.
77 The Salt Window
The salt out here never stops.
78 The Cartographer's Debt
My name is Andi Reyes, I'm twenty-nine years old, and until three days ago my life was so boring it actually hummed.
79 The Resonance of Last Light
I've been a memory archivist on Cerule Station for six years now.
80 Ask the Vet
I had both arms up to the shoulder inside a heifer when the clinic door banged open.
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Sundown Wanderer, Glass Ritual, Shift of Ivory, Iron Contour