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ECO24 Microfiction Contest - First Place! - "Angels in the Forest" by Jessica Sirkin

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - First Place! - "Angels in the Forest" by Jessica...

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural world. We...

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - First Place! - "Angels in the Forest" by Jessica...

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural world. We...

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - Second Place! - "Late Bloomer" by Nuno Gonçalves

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - Second Place! - "Late Bloomer" by Nuno Gonçalves

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural world. We...

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - Second Place! - "Late Bloomer" by Nuno Gonçalves

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural world. We...

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - Third Place! - "One Last Resort on Station Ciel-13" by Nadine Aurora Tabing

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - Third Place! - "One Last Resort on Station Ciel-...

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural world....

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - Third Place! - "One Last Resort on Station Ciel-...

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural world....

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NOVEL EXCERPT: The Lost Level by Brian Keene

My name is Aaron Pace, and I’m writing this by hand in a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook that I found in a student’s backpack inside of an abandoned school bus. All...

NOVEL EXCERPT: The Lost Level by Brian Keene

My name is Aaron Pace, and I’m writing this by hand in a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook that I found in a student’s backpack inside of an abandoned school bus. All...

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FREE SHORT FICTION: A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar

Emily stood in the doorway to the Rio Cafe and looked around, half–convinced she had the wrong place. The word “cabaret” had conjured up visions of illicit underground doings populated...

FREE SHORT FICTION: A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar

Emily stood in the doorway to the Rio Cafe and looked around, half–convinced she had the wrong place. The word “cabaret” had conjured up visions of illicit underground doings populated...

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FREE SHORT FICTION: Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley

The cocktails there had always been dangerous, but now they were poison. We got the call in at the precinct, and none of us were surprised. We all knew the...

FREE SHORT FICTION: Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley

The cocktails there had always been dangerous, but now they were poison. We got the call in at the precinct, and none of us were surprised. We all knew the...

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FREE SHORT FICTION: Paying It Forward by Michael A. Burstein

Paying It Forward A Hugo Award-Nominated Short Story by Michael A. Burstein I'm dying. No one knows it yet. Having never married, I have no family to mourn my passing....

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FREE SHORT FICTION: Paying It Forward by Michael A. Burstein

Paying It Forward A Hugo Award-Nominated Short Story by Michael A. Burstein I'm dying. No one knows it yet. Having never married, I have no family to mourn my passing....