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By K.J. Parker in Issue #467, Eighteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine “You arse,” he repeated. “You've just cured death. I have lifetime tenure. Therefore, every year for ever and ever, world without end, amen, I shall be turning up to these chancellor's dinners and staring into a plate of boiled fucking la...
1 Bakili awakes before the sky outside the window has shown the early fish-belly white of dawn. He stealthily gets out of bed, alighting on tiptoe, kisses his sleeping wife’s […]
“It’s not the same room,” Chiyo says staunchly. She’s sitting in her wheelchair, a faded quilt tucked around her legs. A Western plays on the TV, cowboys with scruffy chins […]
By Richard Parks in Issue #463 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine “Meaning humans have souls, if not physical immortality. Snake-devils have neither. From my point of view, I am trading lead for gold in what I teach versus what I learn. If this is betrayal, may you always be traitor to me.” I wasn’t so certain about the “lead for gold” a...