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- Building - Marlee Jane Ward
I search for him for days, and as every afternoon slips away to night my heart sinks like the sun behind the scrapers, making cold shadows of the crumbly streets. The wind picks up now and again, coming down the valleys made by the tall buildings, winnowing debris. Every chunk of concrete is a memory of him. - JACK O’ WRAITHS - Phil Emery
Down here on his back in the field, with the crop practically grown harvest-high, he couldn’t see the danger coming, but when it did he was confident he’d hear it. It wasn’t long. The slithering was soft at first. Monstrous, but soft. As it came nearer softness gave way to harshness, to a neverending hiss of something huge moving along the ground. Still Jack lay. Made himself stay down even as his heart quickened. - Nothing But the Gods on Their Backs - Alex T. Singer
Rekka brings the god with her from the old world, shoved into the lid of her suitcase, rolled into her sweaters and stuffed in her socks. She stumbles into the last train out, dropping her hats and most of her scarves, but though she breaks the wheels on her bag, she doesn’t lose the god. - Somehow, She Remains - Z.T. Bright
What do you do when your twin sister asks you to take a two-year hiatus from your life on Earth to visit her on an alien planet? When your sibling also announces that she has cancer and has no intention of returning home, you go… even when it costs you your job and the love of your life. You go. Of course, the planet Piklor itself may add its own, unimaginable revelations. - How I Did Not Make Friends With Teniel eu Letxie - Bree Wernicke
Two drinks, and I start telling people I can do syokk.
Is that entirely accurate? No. Can I stop myself? Also no.