Cliff's Girl by Fiona Moore
When Cliff came back home for Casey’s wake, he brought his robot Will, and he also brought a girl. A woman, Morag corrected herself. Just as she shouldn’t think of […]
The Punishing Animal
He hates the birds. There are two, a breeding pair. Their eyes are red as devils’. On land they’re stupid, little feet pushed so far back on their bodies that they can’t escape by running. Yet they glide over the water, glossy mottled boats. Their chicks ride their backs. The adults protect them, tuck black wings up to shield them from wave and ...
Escape Pod 1060: Soft Currency (Flashback Friday)
The Eldest Bird of Paradise
By Denzel Xavier Scott in Issue #465 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine We have delicious cuisine. We are lovers of life. We are lovers of love. We are so many things, but above all else, we are lovers of freedom that live in a cage that no one can enter and no one can leave. Though my homeland is beautiful, peaceful, and filled with abu...
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