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Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Martisset nodded approvingly when she saw what I took out of my pockets. “You provision … Continue reading →

When I was first restored to my gene-mother, or she to me, after her Transition, she bathed me in the lullabies of the Inhabitants, waves of warmth. I understood she was different, as I was. The Shipwright had explained it … Continue reading →

If you asked me what I could have, ambitions I’d fulfill if I could–well, get T-7 off our back. That would be a nice start. Just give us a fighting chance, all right? Do you seriously have to be stirring … Continue reading →

We fear annihilation, of course, in spite of the plain fact that I-Elsewhere, We-Elsewhere will continue, even if this instance dies. We’ll just not rejoin Ourselves, and whatever we learn will be lost. So — beyond that, We fear that … Continue reading →

Desire is the ancient root of suffering, in its double face of attraction and revulsion. What we’d prefer, what we reject — doesn’t matter, in the face of What Is. Make effort, let go of the outcome; know that the … Continue reading →

Talk to it like it’s a horse, Phila says, and don’t insult the ghost in the machine. There are metal-spirits and wood-spirits; water and fire and air all have their souls too, ancient beyond reckoning, and a good mechanic knows … Continue reading →

Temn yr Astok claims to speak for my great-clan; he practices assassination and proscription, supposedly in the manner of the respected ancestors. None will gainsay him, as none were alive at that time. The precedents he cites are before my … Continue reading →

The Shipwright never had a child, so far as I know, but when I was twelve and lonely–for I’d been close to my mother, physically close (her conjoined offspring, some of the traveling-circle joked)–she spoke to me. I didn’t know … Continue reading →

Our cuisine has enough spicing so it doesn’t taste like the very same thing every day, though we all know that the bases number only a few, our old agricultural staples plus some new plants that have entered our diet … Continue reading →