A girl lives under the tyranny of her nanny, who is also a tiger.
A girl lives under the tyranny of her nanny, who is also a tiger.
A human “doctor” must treat a very rare alien species using only AI assistance and translation machines. But the corporatization of medical technology and a history of genocide means nothing is as it seems.
Audio version on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Here’s a thread where I talked a little about my thoughts behind the story. And here’s another thread. This story means a lot to me and contains many things I’ve spent hours thinking about, in bed when the state of the world keeps me up at night, in my dissertation as I grapple with what “knowing” even means, and for weeks at Clarion workshop as I wrote and sobbed in my dorm room trying to make it all come together. If you can only read one thing from me, please read this one!
A book-mender starts seeing shadows in the books she mends, shadows that are traces of a forbidden magic that reveal the dark history of both the empire and her own family.
Audio version on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
A vengeful ghost and her half-human daughter promised to be good for a second chance to live, but both life and the nature of their own flesh creep too close to violence.
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After his ship drowned in a storm, a sailor is stranded on the great sea wall off the coast of the sunken city Jakarta.
With graduation fast approaching, Bandhu must find his magical Intuition to know what kind of jobs he’ll be good for. But his search of his magical power brings him to a piece of family history—and political history—that had forced his parents and grandparents to drift apart.
A collector of solar eclipse photos encounters the incarnation of a dying sun and helps her face her impending death.
A mother seeks revenge for the death of her son by begging a shaman to curse the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies.
On Día de los Muertos, the new library of a university must find a way to collaborate with its janitor to call back the spirit of the old library, which it is in love with.