Editorial
Editorial: Go Small and Go Home
Go small and go home.In our call for FamPunk, this was one of the guidelines. It is something that many of our submitters responded to, and referenced directly in their cover letters. Go small and go home.So many spec fic stories go big. They get larger and larger, up to and involving saving the world/galaxy/universe. [...]
Fantasy
Ursula
Naturally, my first thought is that the bear has eaten my child. My second is to blame myself. I put my daughter to bed early, went to read my book. I should have been hovering in the dark beside her, listening to her breathe like breaking news I can’t afford to miss.Or maybe I just [...]
Science Fiction
The Last Ofuton in Orbit
After my grandmother died, I was left with the ofuton and the spirit inside it.It had been hers since before lift-off, stitched by hand on Earth, brought to the orbiting colony in the old days when people still thought they might go back. Indigo-dyed cotton, faded from decades of artificial lighting. I unrolled it in [...]
