Shaenon K. Garrity's fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Escape Pod and Kaleidotrope as well as in a number of anthologies. Her graphic novel The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor, with artist Chris Baldwin, is available from Simon & Schuster.
Prove you’re not a robot, the laptop demanded. Select all images with cars. Selby squinted at the grid of thumbnail photos, feeling a burp of anxiety that summoned sense memories of elementary school math classes. Timed tests, that was the feeling. Three minutes to solve 25 division problems and prove your humanity. The first thumbnail […]
They didn’t say memes back then. So what did they call it? At the end, in the dark, Lizzie tried to remember. An in-joke but not a joke, a sign for the initiated. A Bob Dobbs sticker on the inside of your locker or a battered copy of an underground comic book. A way for […]