Law of Tongue
The fact that they insisted we keep calling them “killer whales” should really tell you something. The orcas of Puget Sound are vicious in negotiations. In Clarkesworld.
Reno Walled City
Paste, drinks, jams. Keep moving. Never stop hustling. There’s no time for getting close when the next gig’s on the uplink. So it goes in the Reno Walled City. In Seize the Press Magazine.
The Four Schools
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
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
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
The prophets have a job for a young squid. He’s eager to please. In The Dark Magazine.
Jack
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
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
Something’s turning people into monsters in Prism City. It’s Kafka in a vial. In Unlikely Story.
Naim Kabir 