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Alyx Online - The quickest,
dirtiest ticket to the inside of my brain...
Read, relax, enjoy. Then check Shiny New
Fiction for the inside track on upcoming publications!
"Five
Good Things about Meghan Sheedy," up now on Strange
Horizons.
To
hear the Fiends tell it, the agenda of their invasion was simplicity
itself—take over all of Earth, evict every last offworlder,
and bring on the Utopia. They had united Asia behind this goal
before Dinah was born. Wanting an independent Earth was easy to
comprehend, making it a seductive idea. Funny thing, though, their
fine talk of cleansing humanity of foreign contaminants didn't
stop them from buying offworlder bombs. Oh, they pretended they
were just scavenging ordnance from the Demos and their Kabu allies,
but the numbers didn't track—anyone could see the Fiends
had offworld sponsors just like the Demos. In Dinah's books, that
made them hypocrites.
And
they'd merrily assassinate anyone with Kabu ties.
"The
Sorrow Fair," up now on Helix
Speculative Fiction
Gabe
tried to push past the child, to hop over the turnstile. She grabbed
his forearm with irresistible strength, turning it palm-up and
swiping her candy floss over his wrist. The fibers smoked where
they touched him: there was a smell of acid and a blister rose
on his forearm. Swelling to the size of his fist, the skin mottled
and blackened, scorched first into indecipherable patterns and
then into something recognizable: a printed rectangular ticket.
"Admit one," it read.
The
Spear Carrier - An angry young woman's chances of becoming
an offworld ambassador will be thwarted... or is she ruthless enough
to get her rival killed?
A
Key to the Illuminated Heretic - What if Joan of Arc hadn't
burned?
Faces
of Gemini - Two women, one set of superpowers.
Ruby,
in the Storm - Aliens, snowstorms, and campus unrest at
the University of Calgary
The
Children of Port Allain - In Port Allain, dangerous criminals
roam free on one side of a massive, heavily secured Wall ... while,
on the other side, the children of the town fall prey to a delusion
that they have died
Three
Times Over the Falls - Bring a life jacket! You will get
wet. You may get soaked!
Nevada
- A nasty brew of witchcraft and attempted theft (prequel
to Indigo Springs)
The
Girl Who Ate Garbage - co-written with the lovely and talented
Jessica Reisman
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