In Search of Better Deaths
By Zet Madej in Issue #467, Eighteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Berokred took another step, and the woman startled as if woken from a dream. Surprise made her look younger. She ran away, skirts flowing around her. Tangren shouted after her, trying to warn her that the door ahead of her was closed. She r...
A Hundred Ways the Story Ends
Ladd’s Robot Repair
I wasn’t even two blocks into the Tumbledown when the walker’s nav crystal started fuzzing out. She veered left like a scavver drunk on coolant, and I knew I was in trouble. I tried sweet-talking her back on route, but she wasn’t listening. I was used to that. Nobody listens to a twelve-year-old—especially not a scrap pile with legs.
Precogs in the Machine
By Nat Katz in Issue #464 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine She looked into his brown eyes, and her vision doubled and trebled: Peter in a tunnel and in an alley covered by blood and walking on what she knew from her readings of distant lands to be grass. She felt she could come unmoored and drift away into those visions, wondered wheth...
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