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How Sere Kept Herself Together
by Alexander Jablokov

I huddled in the back of the transport barge as it putted its way down the canal. I’d had to jam my ass between a pump housing and a falling-over pile of fertilizer sacks. Any ripple on the water, and my knees smacked my chin. I’d been confident when I started my business: “Sere Glagolit, Private Inquiries.” A few months on, my bruised hips hinted that “desperate” was maybe a more appropriate mood.

My new client, Brice, had hidden himself here in Sryll District. He was probably the only Om around here. Humans tend to get skin conditions from the eternal wet, and it’s a mostly Qippi neighborhood. I caught a few glimpses of those six-legged climbers about their business amid the dripping vertical gardens way above me. READ MORE

 

Turtles to the Sea
by Sandra McDonald

1. A turtle only travels when it sticks out its neck, 2488

“It’s a little awkward,” Major William Bristol said, after they’d been briefed.

“That your ancestors owned my ancestors?” Captain Johnny Winstead raised an eyebrow and tilted his chair back from the conference table, which had been painted sea green. “I promise not to hold it against you, Bill.” READ MORE

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