Sci Fi Short Fiction
Here's everything tagged: Family
In Her Image
Esther willingly sacrifices it all: job, relationship, even liberty to see her children survive long enough to call her 'Mother'.
Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896
Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?
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Fettle & Sunder
When a queer couple's worst nightmare is reified, it upends their orderly life and sends them scrambling for a way out.
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Rise Again
Afaf defies the strictures of her community to set out on a search mission for her mother, for the truth, and ultimately for herself.
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Unfit for Purpose
Facing the sudden loss of her carer bot, eight-year old Marwa fights back with every trick she knows.
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Redemption for the Unseen
The afterlife is nothing like you imagined, and much, much more! Nude selfies, gilded antiques, and white truffles. Watch your pennies!
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Earl Grey and Some Glue
In a dizzyingly changing world, Awad hangs onto the only thing he has left from the life he once cherished, whatever the cost.
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Rockhoppers
Zohra tussles with a devastating loss, a life-changing find, and herself.
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Triangles Are Forever
Weighed down by her past and beset by threats, Keziah risks it all for love and family.
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Semsema of the Zabbaleen
Semsema is caught between clinging to the familiar and venturing into the unknown.
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Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896
Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?
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In the Teeth of the Gale
What would you sacrifice for a lifelong dream? What wouldn't you?
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