Clarkesworld Magazine
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Clarkesworld Magazine is a Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine that publishes short stories, interviews, articles and audio fiction.
Clarkesworld Magazine
1w ago
Fishy had been sitting all alone on its shelf for ten days when the woman walked in. She had long, curly black hair pulled back in a ponytail and wore jeans and a gray sweater. Her face was puffy, and her eyes were red, but Fishy still recognized her from the photo on Dr. Peretz’s ..read more
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1w ago
You’re not meant to fix what happens in the time loops. Doctor’s orders, and that comes even before they give you the survey and the spiel and the confidentiality speech. The psych fiddles with his tablet in his cozy, yellow-couch office, and talks to you in a very grave and condescending voice. The tone checks ..read more
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1w ago
At first I thought something had broken in my book. I didn’t notice until the afternoon light from the windows began to recede. I tried to increase the brightness settings of the page, but no matter how I thumbed the margins, they would not change. For the first time, I looked carefully at the gold ..read more
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1w ago
As my implants processed and transformed the scene in front of me from moment to memory, the silky iridescence of an oil slick slid over my field of vision. With that wash of colors came a muted mourning, for I had caught the bronze glint of my mother’s arm in the recycling heap outside one ..read more
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Hands trembling, Shiv Mehta snatched the print copy of his wife’s ribcage off the conveyor belt and lowered the print into an organ tank. Those hands had healed thousands of patients, but these days his hands had gotten good at stealing. Over the last few months of his wife’s treatments, he’d fought all the fights ..read more
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1w ago
Alice wants to hold a funeral for me, which is disconcerting because I’m not dead. But humans, like all aliens—and certainly all single-forms—have their own idiosyncrasies. I’m used to the idiosyncrasies, of course: I’ve lived on Earth—in my tertiary body, at least—since my hatching in San Francisco, grew up in a cramped apartment in North ..read more
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1w ago
I think of you most when the sun sets on Atlas. The skies are so bright there you can feel the colors on your skin. I find myself repeating this to my granddaughter, Lila. The night she was born, I took her onto the terrace to watch the daylight roll back in waves. We stood ..read more
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Andrea Hairston was born in Pittsburgh PA and lived there until she attended Smith College at the age of eighteen. At Smith she studied physics and math before earning her BA in Theatre. She earned an MA in Creative Writing at Brown—the program now gives an MFA—with a focus on playwriting; but she also studied ..read more
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Andrea Kriz was born in Chicago and grew up in Michigan. Her parents as well as three of her grandparents all earned PhDs: “Growing up, I thought that getting a PhD and dedicating your life to research was normal . . . ” Kriz earned her B.S. in Biology at MIT and a PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences ..read more
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1w ago
Last month, I had to write two editorials that painted different visions of the future: one darker and another representing whatever we’re in now. I’d never thought I’d say this, but I’m happy to be writing an entirely new one this month. While we escaped having to run the bleaker version of events, the reprieve ..read more