// Brooke Bolander
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Aug 13, 2026
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...
// Adam Pracht
// Escape Pod
// Aug 27, 2026
// Vajra Chandrasekera
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Aug 13, 2026
This is our struggle. We scuttle on the sand before the softly breathing salt-burdened sea with the lichen on the rocks a bright poison green and great white butterflies screaming under a red sky while we dream of justice and watch the ghost of a long-extinct rat ancestor, an ancestrat if you please, you know the ones we mean, the toothy ones wh...
// Adam Pracht
// Escape Pod
// Jul 23, 2026
// Rhiannon Rasmussen
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Jul 23, 2026
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