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https://www.redheadedfemme.com/2026/04/notable-short-fiction-clarkesworld.html

Kidd looked at the notebook, at Lanya, at Mr Newboy, at the notebook. "Here."

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#ScribesAndMakers ∆ 2026.04.07 — Would your current creative project make a good game? (If it is a game, is there another media where you think it could work well?)

I'm the last person someone would ask for game ideas, but the current project has plenty of flying scenes. I don't mean aircraft, or spacecraft either. The main character is a day angel, and most of the cast have wings. There's even a night angel to mix things up. One has feathers, the other doesn't. They all fly. Human powered flight, but the how is spoilers. The POV flies fast and trains hard, is an air courier, and speeds between buildings and through alleyways like a daredevil. No shoot-em-up, but there are chase scenes. It's a lot of 1st person flight, including flying tandem. The latter is NSFW, but the rest might be pretty exciting!

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Bolt gets what she wants, and in a society where that's a woman's prerogative, well… This #excerpt is a first draft, and since it's from her POV not the reader's, I still have to ensure it's only what she'd be concerned about, what she'd feel with her own senses. That said:

I was right about one thing: My get-the-job-done-now imperative wouldn't have been fair to Shugh as a first time. I tugged my praetorian friend away from the gathered restaurants, fluttered us off the roof to the cooling towers of the Beer building, near the cooling vents. I saw immediately that Blue consented. Pointedly. The job didn't take him but moments; me either, I was so warmed up—and him so very very ready simply by knowing me so long and observing how much I wanted his prowess.

Standing up. Me. Him: Straight. Immediately connected, nary any resistance, hooking my legs over his arms, fumbling, then getting it right.

Left me buzzing. Him? Pressing me into the wall, repeatedly, lost in the moment. Me? Thrashing a bit. Or a lot. I realized latter he had a hand over my mouth and my wing elbows hurt, clunking the metal I'd been crushed against, at which time I glanced back toward the restaurants, hoping the shadow ducking away wasn't someone come to investigate the clamor.

No. Had been.

I began to giggle. Manically.

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#PennedPossibilities 979 — Tell us about something that disgusts your SC.

[Shugh, the journalist:] It disgusts me when people prejudge others by their gender without even thinking about it, especially when it's me. It saddens me when a friend does it, but I do my best to understand the structure of the world we live in.

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