All the Ruined Doorways of the Moon by Eilis O'Neal
It was, Anna had to agree, a most excellent house. As the estate agent led them from room to room, Nigel admired the tall-shelved library, the long, ever-flowing swimming pool […]
They Rob the Hybla Bees
By Louis Morris in Issue #461 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine So when Rome’s conquering legions overran Old Syracuse and Archimedes scrawled his spells in the dust duplicating us on a parallel Earth, most people rejoiced at the reprieve. Yet a few of us mourn the dishes we couldn’t recreate, here on the wrong side of the wrong world. ...
If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I
The Goddess of Not Enough
You’re eighteen. Your fairy godmother just fired you, because after three balls, the prince has grown bored with you. Tonight you stepped on his foot during a gavotte. “If you’d been cleverer,” the fairy godmother says—her words silver chimes girded with steel—“you’d have pretended your clumsiness was really punishment: a reminder to focus on yo...
Piece de Resistance by D.A. Xiaolin Spires
“All clear, go!” yelled Klara from beyond the plastic confines of the ball, and I came tumbling. Water sloshed against my feet, and adrenaline rushed from my stomach up my […]
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