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Stone Blind
Once upon a time there was a girl whose mother had died soon after her seventh birthday. Her father, a reasonably successful merchant, was driven almost mad with grief. He commissioned a stonemason to...
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Remapped
“Let me call you Daddy,” I said. There was nothing but hiss of a bad digital connection. The screen’s cold glow cast harsh shadows across the rumpled landscape of my bedclothes. I was glad, now, that...
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Portals – 1
At the age of 32, Jeb noticed his life had been a series of portals. Looking back, he could count them off on his fingers. At high school, he’d been the fat kid. School is hard enough on everyone, but...
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Lucy the Scholar
People joke about love at first sight because they know love has nothing to do with it. It’s uglier than that. I met Lucy at a conference up at York the day before nature wrapped the whole of the...
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The Laughing Man
Men don’t cry like women. I’ve always thought that most of the ways in which people say that men and women are different was bullshit. We’re not from Venus, they’re not from Mars, and all that gender...
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Flesh Composed of Suns
The boxroom smelled like her cunt. Naya was unsure if the room had always smelled this way and her cunt had taken on its scent, or whether these sagging towers of paper had absorbed, had inhaled and...
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Cold Storage
Patience was Dr. Viresh Lee’s virtue. In an age when molecular scans and biological reconstitutions were the standard investigative approach to paleobiology, Lee liked to get his hands dirty. This...
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Back to Nature
The girl’s hair is short and of no particular colour. That mid-brown so many American girls have and dye to something more interesting. Elizabeth suspects she cuts it herself, in despair, in front of...
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Little Prick
This is a revisitation of a much shorter piece that I reworked. I sat up amid the swaddle of bedding in the berth and rolled up the sleeve of my cotton nightdress, waiting in a tangle of fear and...
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The Baptism
(Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 9, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, 2010) 1870, Annam, French Indochina The church of Dak Rede was a small wattle-and-plaster affair, perched...
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