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Chapter One The first person I tried to kill with a shadow was my sister. I had removed my only pair of stockings and left them to dry by the fire while I relieved myself. Remil had taken the socks, unraveled them into two useless piles of thread, and then laughed when she’d seen my […]

It feels like fate when Lucy sees the billboard flash neon against night as she stumbles out of the reunion trashed on vodka and self-loathing. Lucy has seen the name floating around the news: Optime, pronounced “opti-me”, is the pet project of some tech mogul with a biohacking obsession. She’d dismissed it as some woo-woo […]

My daddy saw great horrors during the Brothers’ War. Soldiers with their heads blown off. Men crawling on their bellies, on account of their missing legs. Horses dragging dead riders across battlefields. Rows of bodies with no linen to cover them. But the war’s greatest horror, no one saw for years. I’m watching it now […]

In a future where water has colonized land, a team of crack scientists race to prevent a catastrophic breach in a major sea wall beyond the B-Harbor of Baltimore—but the effort will come at a cost. Vera rotates her silent-running, fuel-cell powered skiff until she’s facing B-Harbor Sector 1. She comes to a full stop. […]

She was born in the Cave, emerged from the cocoon of shattered stalactites soaked in vestigial groundwater like all daughters before her. Her first name was Kori, her second, Mama, and now finally everyone calls her Yaya, the eldest. Even after so long, a sinful child whose hunger for adventure once lured her old family […]

Ava is born at 12:00 a.m. sharp on the first day of spring, with purple crocus buds pushing through the patchy snow outside. It is a home birth, and she spends her first day on earth squalling and sleeping, nursing and acclimating to her new existence. She has a mother and a father who gaze […]