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 SHORT FICTION: Captive Girl
SHORT FICTION: Captive Girl
Unwelcome Bodies In the choreographed chaos of space, she searches for patterns that do not fit. She listens to the hiss and murmur of the interstellar winds; she peers into the visible spectrum and beyond. Whistling particles stream by, and her mind sizes them up, then discards them as harmless ...
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SF Tidbits for 11/18/08
SF Signal — ... free zombie stories from the book [See also: the SF Signal review]: "In Beauty, Like the Night" by Norman Partridge. "Malthusian's Zombie" by Jeffrey Ford. "Sparks Fly Upward" by Lisa Morton. "Followed" by Will McIntosh. "Passion Play" by Nancy Holder. From Apex: "Under the Dryer" by Fran Friel. "A Place of Snow Angels" by Matt Wallace. "Captive Girl" by Jennifer Pelland. "Something Wet" by James F. Reilly. ...

Arkham Tales and More
QuasarDragon — ... the horizon. The Northern sun never truly rose or set, knew Iliss, but in her wildness of heart, she had not kept proper track of the seasons, and was not sure if it was true Summer or Winter. It mattered little to her single-minded purpose. Omline HERE. And new fiction at Apex: "Under the Dryer" by Fran Friel. "A Place of Snow Angels" by Matt Wallace. "Captive Girl" by Jennifer Pelland. "Something Wet" by James F. ...

Friday Free Fiction for 21st November
Futurismic — ... of satire in the form of “The Last American: A Fragment from The Journal of KHAN-LI, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy” by J A Mitchell *** At Apex Online: “Under the Dryer” by Fran Friel “A Place of Snow Angels” by Matt Wallace “Captive Girl” by Jennifer Pelland “Something Wet ...

Memo to Myself: Do the Dumb Things I Gotta to Do, Touch the Puppet Head
Tor.com — ... , containing her Nebula Award-nominated story “Captive Girl.” In short, we kicked off our book division with a naked man on the cover and haven’t looked back since. ...

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