I can walk out the front door into the wide, busy, surprising world and do whatever I want. But he can’t, and so I stay. He smiles at me across…

It was the worst place her car could have stopped. Sputtering one last rum-bitter gasp of spent fuel, a shuddering fume-cough, then rolling to a silent, inertial halt on the…

I love you. He leaned over my bed and whispered it, while I pretended to sleep. Again and again, so close that his breath quivered my eyelashes, the hazy, half-shut…

Rain ran down through the channels in the bell, ringing it as the wind never would. Its maze-like latticed frame was made for water, not air, its clapper a sloshing…

It was the inevitable conclusion that no one wanted to acknowledge. Copy an object into a matter replicator, and it could be tweaked and reproduced and perfected forever. Nothing produced…

They had lost half their platoon the first night in that damned city. And Jameson had no idea how to explain that to his superiors barking on the radio, since…

The piano was a more gorgeous inheritance than Tabitha had ever have expected from her grandmother, stout as an oaken castle, gilt with golden fairies and petals in mother-of-pearl. It…

The guide walks ahead of them with a telescoping pole held importantly above and ahead. A white slit in the dark, like the wick of a phantom candle leading the…

The most gorgeous garden in the city, in the tiny backyard of a middling sorcerer. The fence, rotten with rain and neglect, bloats like a wooden belly, trying to contain…

You’d think the cattle might be uneasy around a possessed cowhand. I was worried about that when I first picked up a white spur out of the mud, white in…