AmbiguityIn the back corridors of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, Claire meets a woman who offers to buy her shadow, the grief and guilt that have weighed her down since her mother's death and divorce. What starts as an impossible transaction becomes…
AINASA's official last message from the Opportunity rover was short and poignant. But the engineers who received it that day found something else buried in the data, something that shouldn't have been possible to generate at all.
AIWhen a lighthouse gets automated, the keeper goes home and the machines take over. But after twenty-two years of a human presence, the lighthouse starts to notice what's missing.
FictionMost dogs forget. Bodie remembered everything, every hand that touched him, every home that let him go, every person who loved him and couldn't keep him. This is the story of a dog who carried his whole life with him.
Artistic ObsessionEmile Soreau draws maps of places that no longer exist, and somehow people keep arriving at his shop looking for the exact street they lost. His hand moves across the paper with impossible accuracy, naming buildings and tracing gardens in…
FictionA naval fleet responds to a three-word distress signal from a research station and discovers that the moon it sits on is not a moon — it's a dormant organism, and it's waking up.
Fantasy FictionA retired intelligence officer moves to a Cotswolds cottage and acquires a black cat that doesn't age — the same cat that's been appearing at the cottage for four hundred years.
American DecayA cab driver from Queens gets dropped into Oz by a tornado and spends three years driving a Toyota Camry on the Yellow Brick Road, discovering that fairy tales have terrible infrastructure.
AmbiguityEvery clock in Aurelio Vega's Montevideo shop is broken, and every one tells the correct time. People come to him not for repairs but for answers that only stopped clocks can give
American DecayWhen her van breaks down in Delmore, Oklahoma — population 43 — a travel writer discovers the last original town on Route 66 and the people who refused to leave when America moved on.
FictionA clerk in the Chicago Post Office basement discovers a letter addressed to her with no postmark. The message warns something will come for her at midnight. What waits in the locked drawer of her desk has been patient for…
AIWhen android Otto-7 downloads emotions from a sketchy website, he falls for his creator while experiencing romantic attraction to coffee machines and crying at commercials. A tech romance about debugging love.
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