Twenty-Two Steps to Become Us by Hannah Yang
There are a dozen copies of my mother playing Candy Crush in the living room. The Learners have her hooded eyelids, which they keep firm with antiaging creams. Her black […]
Until the Cure
The golem who cares for my mother is patient, as I am not patient. The golem who cares for my mother is kind. It is precise. I took everything I wanted to be as a daughter, and am not, and I put it into the golem. I’m still afraid I am failing her.
Aspect of the Moth
By Jonathan Olfert in Issue #469 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine There was no whisper of any of this excavation on the road. It may be secret, it may be fast and recent, or perhaps the conquered city produces too great a bulk of rumor for this to stand out and propagate. I knew about the temples' leveling, but that took place in front...
The Cold That Brings You Home
By E.M. Linden in Issue #466 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Afterwards, while the mother and baby slept or cooed at each other, Jesset was freed to the fresh air to deliver the grace-bread. Sister Grain baked two loaves after every birth. One for the church, to be blessed and broken for the poor of the village. One for the Kind Ones ...
Selected Case Notes from the Judicial Oversight Council of the Gatarn Empire
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