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I wish she were here! No one else could appreciate the perverse anguish of my situation. I wondered if she had known, when she sent the cloak, the havoc it would wreak between Joscelin and me.

I have never failed to recognize a patron upon meeting. Severio Stregazza was one of mine.

Religious horror about a song that the parishioners sing against their will and to their detriment.

A child saves her family from a haunted house. Sort of.

A sinister ancestor tree is felled by the clawing roots of the dandelion weed.

An Oz story about the Lion losing his hard won courage in the face of a monstrous spider.

A cage fighter gets to make her own fortune before the end.

An immigration story on Mars.

In the wake of being left on a dying earth instead of one of its colonies, a man is righteously incensed until he finds out why.

The next time Halley’s Comet comes around is different to the last.

Probably no surprise that the most horrific story from this collection comes from a future where the army is a seemingly pleasant alternative to corporate bondage, yet also has bioengineering that ensures military service can also be unending.

Not so much time travel in this one as a central building that exists in many times at once.

8 Laws I Wound Up Breaking While Attempting to Restore the Timeline Is Just a Short, funny romp

A love story buried in an addiction story about a fictional drug called Emosynth.

A mother ages backwards at the same pace as her daughter ages forwards.

Devastating look at time travel in the vein of being unable to change anything that’s already happened.

Mommy kisses it better takes on a whole different meaning in this one.

An alien invasion brings out humanity from a small group of survivors in an apartment block.

Brief snapshot of memory and escaping abuse.

Christmas elves save Christmas.

The nine lives of a cat lived through the single life of their human companion.

This story about Splits creating more people from previous times in a person’s timeline faintly reminded me about Julia Armfield’s short story about sleep.

Omg the best story of a robot as a surrogate mother and then battling for custody after the birth parents are dead. I can see this one as a TV episode.

An abandoned android finds a way to be of service to life after its owner left it behind.

This story by a series of emails was deeply uncomfortable to read as an educational board implemented replacing teachers with AI. But at least there was universal basic income at the end! 🙃

Oof this one from the robot’s perspective shows the frivolous nature of people chasing the next new shiny and the technology that falls to the side along the way.

The AI war begins early in this poverty stricken version of the world where a possible alternative is to upload your consciousness into a computer.

Ahhh fairy trees and folkloric horror from Ruth Frances Long!! This one is so evocative and good it had my toes curling in my slippers.

Maurice offers sustenance and love to some horrific babies.

The goddess' descriptions in KC Grifant's short are striking in their foreignness