The future looms over Massachusetts, but can we stick the landing, asks Joel Cox in his short story Variable Rewards:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/variable-rewards-joel-cox

Image: Cristina Zaragoza

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Rose hasn't spoken to her father for eight years. But, in Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Holly Edwards, the call of home is strong:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/little-lamb-who-made-thee-holly-edwards

Image: Julia Taubitz

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What's the reality of motherhood? In this graphic short story, Bruna Martini takes it one day at a time:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/one-day-at-a-time-bruna-martini

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Memory collides with the facts on the ground in this short story from Takiguchi Yūshō, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/peppermint-takiguchi-yusho-translated-by-jesse-kirkwood

Image: Geio Tischler

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Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-cream-diana-evans

Image: Felipe Pierreson

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Short fiction is sometimes long in the making, says Lucy Caldwell. But it can also catch the current moment while it is still on the wing:

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/lucy-caldwell-a-dart-into-the-day

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For Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood, fiction is a matter of listening to what the story has to say:

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/takiguchi-yusho-jesse-kirkwood-peppermint-fiction-story-voice

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With the backlash against trans people in full swing, fiction can play an important part in helping us understand each other, says Holly Edwards:

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/holly-edwards-little-lamb-who-made-thee-trans-queer-politics

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The American dream is fracturing under the pressure of social media and AI. But Joel Cox tells the @fictionable #podcast that doesn’t mean we can’t have a laugh:

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/joel-cox-variable-rewards-suburbs-social-media-AI

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Giving birth is like being run over by a bus, Bruna Martini says on the @fictionable #podcast But framing the experience in a comic can give a sense of perspective:

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/bruna-martini-one-day-time-comic-child-laugh

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