Science Fiction. The Catalogue of Returning Names At the monastery’s lowest archive, where the comet’s warm stone breathed against the shelves, Sister Ilyra opened a catalogue dated eight hundred years ahead. Its pages smelled faintly of rain. The ink was iron-dark, and each...
Weird Fiction. The Last Address Mara carried one letter inside the paper hull of a tiny paper boat, and the boat inside a green stone no larger than a plum seed. Saffron sunlight poured through the orbital greenhouse’s stained panels. Beyond them, stars burned without weather....
Hopeful Science Fiction. The Seed Below the Lamps Every night, Sora hung her lanterns along the paths people avoided. They climbed the service ladders, trembled beneath pipes slick with condensation, and leaned beside the dark hydroponic vaults. Their little flames were green as...
Romance. The Season That Would Not Close Iona Vey made clocks for seasons rather than hours. Her workshop hung beneath the orbital greenhouse’s northern dome, where condensation beaded on old stone ribs and moss climbed the pipes in patient green. Inside, damp clocks breathed...
Weird Fiction. Departure Board By the time Mara Venn returned to Earth, winter had thickened around the stations. Frost silvered the timetable, and the departure board displayed seasons instead of cities: THAW, DROUGHT, FIRST LEAVES, THE YEAR OF ASH, ONE UNVERIFIED SUMMER....
Weird Fiction. The seed’s memory Former astronaut Mara Venn had stayed in orbit for eleven years, long after Earth became a rumour that arrived too late to correct itself. Below the station, storms had drowned the continents in pale ash. Above them, the greenhouse turned...
Adventure. The Season That Would Not Close Mara Venn kept time in seasons. Her workshop floated beside the greenhouse’s eastern trellis, where black cherry trees grew in black cherry soil beneath a copper-colored horizon. Their leaves held memories of forests gone from Earth:...
Historical Fantasy. The Rumour of Earth By the time Mara Venn reached the northern trellis, the orbital greenhouse had completed its ninth rotation without sunrise. The station turned once every forty days, and on a station that never met an ocean there was no reason to mark...
Mythic Fiction. The Season Clock Mara kept time in the greenhouse beneath the seed, where the trees grew upward in slow green fire and the stars showed through their leaves. Her clocks did not measure hours. They measured the patient turning of spring, the lean of summer, the...
Mystery. The amber window Iona Venn kept one window on her bench: narrow, rain-silvered, and warm at its center with an amber light that came from nowhere she could name. The orbital greenhouse curved around her, a lattice of pressure glass over the seed that remembered extinct...
Mythic Fiction. The Seed Under Glass At the edge of the orbital greenhouse, where the soil turned from cobalt shadow to sea-glass green, Orra Venn waited for a forest to remember her. She was sixty-three, her hands mapped with pale seams, and her bones remembered the gravity of...
Gothic Fantasy. The Tide of Glass The lake appeared only when the seed inhaled. Ilyan ferried strangers across it in a narrow black boat, poling through water the color of white coral. Above him the greenhouse curved away into the dark: ribs of pale wood, leaves like stained...
Weird Fiction. Orbit Was a Kind of Ground Ilya Rook kept herself in orbit after the landing stations were mothballed, after the oceans developed a municipal accent, after the newspapers printed Earth in the past tense. She floated beneath the botanical garden with her boots...
Romance. The Seed Beneath the Glass Mara Vale kept the last door in a drawer beneath her workbench. It was not a door you could open from the ordinary side. On paper, it appeared as a narrow black rectangle, scaled for a human shoulder, with a brass handle and a number in faded...
Weird Fiction. The Last Seat in Orbit Commander Mara Venn stayed in orbit for nineteen days after her capsule landed without her. She claimed the landing gear had failed. The flight controller claimed she had exited through the airlock with no suit, no helmet, and no reason....
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