The Teahouse
By Prashanth Srivatsa in Issue #461 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine There’s a heady blend of cardamom and cloves that go in the third, along with tea leaves that resemble charred twigs. It is the third she fears today, for the Shibra leaves demand time (time she does not have) to settle with the boiled milk. The buck-toothed General o...
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. ...
PodCastle 950: FLASH FICTION EXTRAVAGANZA: Reapings
Fragments of the Whole
Lise’s personas have no warning when the XexlCo Construct appears at the gate of her memory garden, smiling cheerfully at each of her personas in turn like a neighborhood milkman making his daily rounds. They watch the newcomer saunter by with open curiosity, moving aside to let him pass as though he’s a regular guest in Lise’s subconscious. The...
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