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Threto is under lockdown for a new strain of bird flu, and a girl in a stolen jacket is running across a housing courtyard with two pills in her pocket and a police drone on her heels. The drone’s sensors chase sound, not movement. Then an old man on a balcony begins to sing, and […]

In the unlit south wing of a palace, a former assassin climbs in through a window, soaking wet, and walks straight into the king’s younger sister. Victoria does not scream. She asks whether he has come to see her, informs him that it is exactly thirty-four paces to the washroom door, and corrects him when […]

A man stands at a gas pump in the village where he grew up, wiggling his credit card in front of the card slot and working out how much of everything he owns he can afford to put into a full tank. He decides on ten dollars, in cash, and goes inside to pay a […]

Content warnings: Child sexual abuse A courageous account of childhood trauma and the author’s determination to reclaim her story There are memoirs that invite you into a different life, and there are memoirs that demand you confront something you would rather not believe could happen at all. Catherine Heller Reilly’s The Ring, the Cult, and […]

An ambitious and imaginative take on Earth’s past and future, in which magic and art shade into one another as the characters come into their own A Dawn Obsolete, the first “folio” of debut author Jaseon R. G. B.’s planned seven-installment series, The Light Apparent, has the potential to become a cult classic. The flipside […]

The water is at his shoulders and the smog is spilling over the valley rim when Vox finally stops mocking her. All afternoon he has lounged in the stone cage Lirien raised around him, napping, telling her that her bunker will fail and her lake will fail and that she has no idea how anyone […]