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From our archives: Red Blood, Dark Water."
“Forgive me,” I said, for I knew
both who and what he was,
“I didn’t mean to summon you...
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From our archives: "Every Burning Bird Will Be Reborn."
"Tell me where we are going and why,” Grandmere snaps, as if reading Kella’s thoughts .
“Today I will present myself to the firebird for judgment,” Kella recites...
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A&A contributor Randy Andrews: " I was reading PROJECT HAIL MARY at the zoo the day I wrote 'Relative,' which was published last year in A & A and is now nominated for the Dwarf Stars award:)"
From our archives: "Daring." A young woman learns to not let her bosses take credit.
“I think I found a mermaid.”
There’s a heavy sigh that about bowls her over. “If that’s an attempt at being funny it’s poorly timed, Lise.” abyssapexzine.com/2024/03/da…
From our archives: " A Bier of Bloody Roses." No one knew what caused Rose Syndrome. The only commonality anyone had found among the ill was they’d all suffered unrequited love.
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From our archives: "Moths in a Fluttering Heart."
Her village was dead. "Nazis,” Papa-Kostas managed. “Looking for resistance fighters. We didn’t tell.” A fit of cough. “Evdokia… dead too. See to Charon’s supper, girl. Don’t leave us here, stranded.”
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From our archives: "Pet." Chira laughs, the happy sound tripping through the water. His pet? She had thought it was the other way around.
This is what happens when you wreck an ecosystem. abyssapexzine.com/archives/a…
From our archives: “Cheatin’.”
"I’d been looking forward to snacking on some bumblebugs myself. Apple-fed bumblebugs were a fine treat; sweet and salty and just full of nutrition things…" which was just how she looked to the spook devil.
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From our archives: “Hives.”
My babysitter told me she had hives
And showed me a hole in the palm of her hand
Where bees kept going out and coming in…
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From our archives: “Spider Without a Web.”
Syr told herself not to overreact. She would simply have to think faster than the human animals.
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From our archives: "Cold Currents," in which a man battles a generational tendency to seek a watery, suicidal grave and instead rescues others from drowning. abyssapexzine.com/2019/01/co…