The Fisherman’s War
An aging Icelandic fisherman takes his eighty-ton boat against the Royal Navy during the 1958 Cod War, armed with nothing but stubbornness and the conviction that the fish belong to Iceland.
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AILove in the Algorithm Age
After 2,347 algorithmically perfect matches and zero sparks, Petra Voss meets a Luddite sound engineer in a hardware store who builds theremins and doesn't own a phone.
AmbiguityA Bullet for the President’s Ghost
A Secret Service agent is contacted by the ghost of President William Henry Harrison, who warns him of a 200-year assassination cycle targeting the incoming president.
AmbiguityThe Girl Who Hated Miracles
Rosalind can heal anyone she touches, but every miracle ages her body by years. When a school fire traps twenty-three children, she faces the cost of the only gift she never wanted.
AmbiguityDead Letter Office, 1923 (Version 2)
A postal clerk in 1920s New York discovers a letter that shouldn't exist — addressed from the dead to the living — and gets recruited into a shadow office that delivers mail between worlds.
Artistic ObsessionThe Pianist of Titan | A Science Fiction Short Story
A spy posing as a pianist on Saturn's moon discovers alien contact data hidden beneath the methane seas — and chooses to play one last concert while burning her cover forever.
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