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April 2013 ISSUE

Melt With You

Our fourth piece of audio fiction for April is “Melt With You” written by Emily C. Skaftun and read by Kate Baker.

 
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April 2013 ISSUE

No Portraits on the Sky

Our third piece of audio fiction for April is “No Portraits on the Sky” written by Kali Wallace and read by Kate Baker.

 
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April 2013 ISSUE

Annex

Our second piece of audio fiction for April is “Annex” written by Benjanun Sriduangkaew and read by Kate Baker.

 
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April 2013 ISSUE

Annex

On the eve of Samutthewi’s entry into the Costeya Hegemony, Esithu was sloughing off the shell of their birth-body. There would be speculation afterward what Esithu was born as—someone’s son, someone’s daughter? To that Esithu would always say, “I was born as I am now,” which became a stretch after Esithu obtained a second then a [...]

April 2013 ISSUE

Spar (The Bacon Remix)

Our first piece of audio fiction for April is “Spar (The Bacon Remix)” written by Kij Johnson and read by Kate Baker.

 
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April 2013 ISSUE

No Portraits on the Sky

The stranger fell from the sky just after dawn.
Rela heard the snap of branches and looked up. The sun was rising in a gray haze beyond the forest’s eastern edge, and the mist was retreating from the aerie. In the canopy above, a dark figure tumbled through the fog, bouncing from branches and whipping past [...]

April 2013 ISSUE

Melt With You

Even after being reincarnated as a plastic lawn flamingo, Irma still insisted that the scruffy panhandler on the I-95 off-ramp near our house had been Jesus. “We missed him,” she’d say, painted beak opening to reveal a mouth that did not lead to a windpipe or vocal chords or lungs. “We mistreated Jesus again and [...]

April 2014 ISSUE

Spar (The Bacon Remix)

[Editor’s note: In 2009, we published Kij Johnson's Nebula Award-winning story, “Spar.” In 2013, she contributed this alternate version of the story to John Ordover’s BACONTHOLOGY, a bacon-themed charity anthology aimed at raising money for children with autism. We present this story for your April amusement and hope that you will consider supporting John’s cause. [...]

April 2013 ISSUE

Guest of Honor

One of the robots offered to carry Pico for the last hundred meters, on its back or cradled in its padded arms; but she shook her head emphatically, telling it, “Thank you, no. I can make it myself.” The ground was grassy and soft, lit by glowglobes and the grass-colored moon. It wasn’t a difficult [...]

April 2013 ISSUE

Finisterra

1. Encantada
Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world.
The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the waters of la caldera; but where the skies she remembers were bounded by mountains, here on Sky there is no real horizon, only a line of white [...]

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