Mastodawn

Both made their choice the same morning.
Whose choice would you have made?
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[Archivist's Footnote: 14 intake reports note this trade explicitly. None describe what is offered to the candidate in exchange. Nothing is offered. The candidate is found, recruited, and used. The wiring is treated as an asset and the cost is treated as an inconvenience.]
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3h ago

From the Archives: "Out of Draconia" by Alma Alexander, BCS #436, who has a new story & podcast in BCS #456.

"until the day she came back into the village, at dawn, staggering, thin to the point of being gaunt, her hair hacked by her own hand so that it hung in lank strands to just below her shoulders, her eyes hollowed out... but blazing. And cradled across her body in a makeshift sling... was a dragon egg."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/out-of-draconia/
#fantasy #sff #shortstory #podcastfiction

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Out of Draconia by Alma Alexander

She was gone for a long time—so long, in fact, that I began to come to terms with the possibility that she would never return, and to regret my urging for her to go out there and seek her dragon-egg fortune. Right until the day she came back into the village, at dawn, staggering, thin to the point of being gaunt, her hair hacked by her own hand so that it hung in lank strands to just below her shoulders, her eyes hollowed out... but blazing. And cradled across her body in a makeshift sling... was a dragon egg.

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Perseid Prophecies Magazine 4h ago

Stop me if you've heard this one before.
A man walks into a bar and orders a drink. He then (more or less) accurately predicts the next few events before they happens.
How does he know, and why does she get some things wrong?
It's all a matter of probabilities.

Read "A Man Walks Into a Bar" by Dennis M. Powers in the current issue of Perseid Prophecies!

https://perseidprophecies.ca/issue-9-spring-2026/a-man-walks-into-a-bar/

#scifi #sciencefiction #shortstory #sff #indiemagazine

Rahulkumar Panwar 5h ago

How do you be the best version that you can be, when your own mind is your prison borne out of trauma? When the survival instinct prevents you from living life itself.

This week's issue focuses on surviving yourself.

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Rahulkumar Panwar 8h ago

If Kaladin Stormblessed from Stormlight Archive and Dawnshot from Mistborn era 2 met in a bar, who reaches for their weapon first?
Kaladin trusts no institution but believes in people.
Dawnshot is his own brand of justice.
Both are right. Both are dangerous. Theories?
#SFF #Stormlight #Cosmere #TheParasiteWars

Blaine D. Arden 11h ago

Two of my books are part of the "English isn't even my 1st language!" bundle on Itch-io.
20 stories by multilingual authors for just $17.

Includes 𝘼 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙨 and 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨.
📚 https://go.blainedarden.com/itch-english

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Rahulkumar Panwar 11h ago

Would you read a book where the three protagonists are at war with the same system that broke them, and they have never met, and only one of them knows the others exist?
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Aurélie 11h ago

Vous aimez les ambiances de fin du monde ? Alors foncez découvrir ce roman de SF. L’autrice française Léa Cuenin signe ici un premier roman planant et captivant faisant la part belle aux femmes. Il y a de la mélancolie dans cette histoire de fin du monde et de projection de la mémoire des êtres humains dans le vide spatial. C’est juste, beau et doux, malgré tout, et ce jusqu’à un dénouement superbe.

Ma chronique complète par ici : https://loveinbooks.com/2026/05/11/memory-palace-lea-cuenin/
#mastobook #mastolivre #sff #leacuenin

Rahulkumar Panwar 22h ago

The first page of your book is the only page where you are guaranteed a reader.
Every subsequent page, you have to earn.
That is the entire problem.
That is the entire opportunity.
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