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After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland by Max Franciscovich

#s:specfic #s:trans #t:origfic | Ari volunteers to row first. We knew they would; we expected it. Mir, as she has intended to, says, “No, I’ll row, I’m the strongest,” and she is, with the thickest arms, so she takes the oars. Cal curls in the stern at her feet, so close she hardly has space to row but trembling so hard that she does not tell him off.

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We Shall Drink Wine by Andrew K. Hoe

#n:♥ #s:specfic #t:origfic | Until then, there is Fate Cutter, weeping the blood of an old love, sharp and silent. There is poisoned wine in a celadon cup, not unlike the Elixir of Immortality the queen-wife drank. There is this cold, cold moon to which the queen-wife ascended only to find that bone-white home infested—this moon whence our kind came, the endless beyond-dark we do not sing to, lest it tear out our throats with loneliness.

1 month ago | View Shared by zeiat
Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand by Fran Wilde

#s:disability #t:origfic | No one wants to be pinned between an entrance and an exit, unless you’re part of the show.

1 year ago | View Shared by zeiat
Yellow and the Perception of Reality by Maureen McHugh

#s:specfic #t:origfic | I wear yellow when I go to see my sister. There’s not a lot of yellow at the rehab facility; it’s all calm blues and neutrals. I like yellow—it looks good on me—but I wear it because Wanda is smart and she’s figured it out. She knows it’s me now when she sees the yellow.

1 year ago | View Shared by zeiat
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu

#s:specfic #t:origfic | The water that falls on you from nowhere when you lie is perfectly ordinary, but perfectly pure.

1 year ago | View Shared by zeiat
Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue by Charlie Jane Anders

#s:specfic #s:trans #t:origfic | Rachel has always thought this incident exposed the roots of the social contract: most of our relationships are upheld not by love, or obligation, or gratitude, but by mutually assured destruction.

1 year ago | View Shared by zeiat
The Northern Caves by nostalgebraist

#t:origfic | An online message board devoted to a cult fantasy author wrestles with his baffling final book.

6 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
心也許很小很小世界卻很大很大 (The Heart May be Tiny but the World's Enormous) by ladysisyphus

#c:m/m #f:atla #n:ssbb #t:origfic | Really, if it hadn't been for the damn baby, Gong Ji would've gotten away with it. (May or may not be the epic love story of Jet's Two Gay Dads.)

6 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
Sid Stills' Blues (Three-Quarters in the Bag in Alphabet City) by ladysisyphus

#c:m/m #n:ssbb #n:♥ #t:origfic | The headache wasn't what woke him, but it was what kept him from going back to sleep once he was up. It rolled through his head like a drum line, pounding its high school marching band arrangements of some once-golden oldie across his brain with all the embarrassing force of the time he'd been sixteen and nearly killed himself with his father's Jack. He hadn't been hung over like this in years, decades. Just one more shit side effect, he supposed, of getting old.

6 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been by ladysisyphus

#c:m/m #n:ssbb #t:origfic | How had he been? That was a strange question, and one he wasn't quite prepared to answer, at least as far as his sister was concerned. /Met a man who's also a communist, have taken to smoking reefer, think about committing sodomy almost every waking moment of my day -- so, depending on how you look at it, about to hit rock bottom or the best I've ever been./

6 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
The Course of Honour by Avoliot

#c:m/m #t:origfic | When Jainan arrived on Iskat to represent his home planet in a diplomatic marriage to Imperial Prince Taam, he was naïve enough to hope the match would work. Taam knew better. Five years later, his confidence shattered, Jainan is released when Taam dies in an accident, only to be faced with another marriage to help salvage his treaty. Jainan understands how the real world works now; but Prince Kiem - the cheerful, scandal-prone darling of the Iskat celebrity magazines - keeps breaking all the rules he's learned.

6 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
HOW TO BECOME A ROBOT IN 12 EASY STEPS

#t:origfic | BY A. MERC RUSTAD How to tell your boyfriend you are in love with a robot: 1. Tell him, “I may possibly be in love with a robot,” because absolutes are difficult for biological brains to process. He won’t be jealous. 2. Ask him what he thinks of a hypothetical situation in which…

8 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
Why Wouldn't She Be My Friend? I'm Fantastic. by axolotlsgambit

#c:f/f #t:origfic | In which a bored hacker and an AI with a terrible job strike up a conversation, and determine that they are flirting. (Algorithmically.)

10 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
Another Decalogue by mautadite

#c:f/f #t:origfic | The news has been out for weeks. ORIGINAL CINDY - FREE ONCE MORE.

10 years ago | View Shared by zeiat
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu

#s:specfic #t:origfic | In this way it was discovered that the wasp nests of Yiwei, dipped in hot water, unfurled into beautifully accurate maps of provinces near and far, inked in vegetable pigments and labeled in careful Mandarin that could be distinguished beneath a microscope.

11 years ago | View Shared by zeiat

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