Fiction

The Four Schools

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Arzey the Monk pursues Garza the Provoker over the course of many lives. There’s not much that can stop a Monk of the Task… but when you’ve lived a hundred lifetimes, you’re bound to hit a couple of snags. In Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

The 50th Annual Magician’s Games

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Em didn’t have a single drop of magical blood in her body—yet here she was. And she was going to win. In Daily Science Fiction.

Slowly Builds An Empire

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It’s hard to be lonelier than Shinsuke Takinami—one of the last few nonpathics in Tokyo. In Clarkesworld Magazine.

Home At Gloom’s End

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The prophets have a job for a young squid. He’s eager to please. In The Dark Magazine.

Jack

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I am Jack’s inferior parietal cortex, and I know what you’re thinking. Probably that this is some lame rip-off of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club. It’s not. In Pseudopod.

On The Origin Of Song

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The naturalist Ciallah Daroun ranges through a world where music is magic—but he has yet to find the origin of song. In Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Prism City Blues

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Something’s turning people into monsters in Prism City. It’s Kafka in a vial. In Unlikely Story.