LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy

Susan Palwick | Mother's Day, After Everything

All of us remember what Mother’s Day was like before we became sterile: flowers and candy for...

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David Marino | Salemo

There is a city called Salemo. Salemo sits atop a cliffside at the edge of a sea. | © 2024 by...

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• 5 días

David Anaxagoras | Under a Star, Bright as Morning

Jo drives urgently as they race toward the star, not sure how far to go, racing because the baby...

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• 9 días

Modupeoluwa Shelle | How to Know Your Father Is a God

I know you’ve been following me since I left school, boarded the train, and took to the alley....

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• 12 días

Endria Isa Richardson | A Pedra

Audio Recording, “Lydia and Ecco at Insight,” February 3, 2134 I didn’t run. If the boy had not...

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• 16 días

Mitchell Shanklin | a testament to indirection, an enigma, the sun above

So, this is awkward. We aren’t at the stage in our relationship where I’d feel comfortable...

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• 19 días

Marissa Lingen | Islands of Stability

Jeanne Calment said she was 122, but there were questions. The records from 1875 were shaky, some...

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• 23 días

Sharang Biswas | Season of Weddings

To be fair, the first one is work, so he doesn’t even get to pick his outfit. But an...

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• 23 días

P H Lee | Only Some of True Love's Miracles

True love’s kiss works miracles. Everyone knows the story: The sculptor who carved a perfect...

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• 29 días

Adam-Troy Castro | The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics

If a robot stands alone in a field, staring into the forlorn distance as it obeys the last order...

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• 29 días

Angela Liu | An Incomplete Body Has No Answers

You don’t know why you ask because you already know he can’t answer. A body is only a body when...

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Alex Irvine | Kopki and the Fish

The story as it is told in the dry valleys north of Averon, where the only roads run down to the...

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Will McMahon | Fragments of a Symbiotic Life

I was born normal enough, except that I was four days late, which isn’t so much, and slightly...

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Shingai Njeri Kagunda | Let the Star Explode

The last picture that Karu has of her father alive is on the day of her graduation. She has this...

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Phoebe Barton | But From Thine Eyes My Knowledge I Derive

It was a long fall in-system from the warp point, so Va Sojourner had plenty of time to observe....

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KT Bryski | An Elegy for the Former Things

You’ve been driving for hours and I wish you would stop. You clutch the steering wheel so hard,...

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Wen-yi Lee | What Becomes of Curious Minds

On the third evening of every week, dozens come to Stalactite Keep to hear the storyteller teach...

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Christopher Rowe | The Pearl Captain

Josea Dream was the pearl captain at the heart of the bivalve ship Blue Spring, which had...

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Everdeen Mason | Scarlett

Scarlett’s eyes had to be perfect. Jon was the artist who’d made her, so it bothered him to think...

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Mari Ness | Further Examination and Capture of Candle Skulls Associated with the Baba Yaga

Recent scholarship has shed considerable light on many previously puzzling or mysterious aspects...

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