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…

“What do you mean, it’s got my soul in it?” The doctor – whose credentials she should have been a lot more careful about examining, would have been, if she…

She spent more time in her house, lately, than in her body. Snugging the cable in behind her ear, the familiar click, then laying herself out on the couch and…

I noticed the first bee crawling out from between my ribs two months ago. It balanced for a few breathless seconds on the titanium strut, cleaning its wings, then launched…