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My Father and the Sun by B.T. Lowry

The sun rises in the east, thus the entrance to the sun also lies in the east. -Yanta speaks, 1.1 Along with my family, I faced the rest of our clan across our ship’s wooden deck. The big vessel had been our home for seven years. It tilted in the gentle...

April 14, 2017    Posted In  Fiction 
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“The Weight Of Years” by Jaime Babb

There is neither time nor weight where I come from; neither gravity nor history.  The Earth has whirled around the sun more than a hundred times since the first human settlers came to Sedna, and yet out there in the Kuiper belt, it remains forever the year...

December 2, 2015    Posted In  Fiction 
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“A Tomb for Demrick Fauston” by Fred McGavran

“How do you know when you’re dead?” Demrick Fauston asked The Reverend Charles Spears, Rector of the Downtown Church of Our Savior. It was the first time the developer had been in Spears’ study since a dispute over the endowment years before....

August 1, 2015    Posted In  Fiction  Uncategorized 
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“Love” by Eve Tushnet

Man’s greatness even in his concupiscence. He has managed to produce such a remarkable system from it and make it the image of true charity. --Blaise Pascal, Pensees *** This is the story of my one hiring failure: how I made the wrong decision,...

July 1, 2015    Posted In  Fiction 
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“Tea House Dreams” by Diane Gallant

Later that night, in the apartment behind the tea house, Yusen would quarrel with his wife about the dreams ­­ about their meaning and their source, and about how Yusen came to throw away three weeks’ profit for them. Yusen’s wife would speak hatefully...

July 1, 2015    Posted In  Fiction 
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“Beta Unauthorized” by S.K. Richards

Everyone knew household robots did not pray, chant or meditate.  Little wonder, then, that Kris watched in stunned denial, coffee and cranberry muffin forgotten, when her household bot lowered itself to the kitchen floor and struggled to cross its telescoping...

June 11, 2015    Posted In  Fiction 
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“A Believer’s Guide To Azagarth” by RJ Astruc

If you visit the planet Azagarth, bring warm clothes. Most of the year it's under five degrees Celsius, and even colder in the valleys, around which the ice -- which is orange here, not white, due to some strange refraction of the dual, distant suns -- rises...

June 11, 2015    Posted In  Fiction 
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“The Master’s Eggs” by Christopher Kastensmidt

Zach nudged open the creaky door which led to Brill’s atelier. He scanned the room, hoping for something unexpected to liven his day, but it looked the same as always: paintings of strange places Brill called fields, forests, and mountains hanging on the stone...

June 13, 2014    Posted In  Fiction 
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“The Revival” by Anne-Marie Yerks

Meeting Kevin’s parents for the first time, Greta was at once sure -- or almost sure -- that she was right. “A monk!” Kevin’s mother Gloria had whispered in the kitchen. “Can you imagine? Raised as an Episcopalian, and he wants to be a monk....

June 12, 2014    Posted In  Fiction 
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“Answer to a Prayer” by Philip Lees

"The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want." The man had been reciting the psalm when they wheeled him into the curtained examination room and parked the gurney next to the wall. Doc Hampshire was hoping he would stop when he reached the end, but he just...

June 12, 2014    Posted In  Fiction 
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