What Peaches Remember
Dom sees the man who killed his sister carrying peaches the way she taught every porter to carry them. When both men begin training at the same gym, he asks for one supervised round.
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Stories
Public short fiction and novella-length pieces set in the Worlds of Our Making universe.
Crest
After an exemplary flood evacuation, swim coach Oona Hale learns that one child may still be inside a cooperative the city is not authorized to enter. She takes the waiting boat across the line.
After the Downbeat
During rehearsal, the licensed model of a dead singer waits for the living soloist to breathe. The delay may be an accommodation, a rights breach, or the first phrase the chorus has made together.
Sixty-Three Days
A transit worker correctly releases an accessibility hold after sixty-three unused days. The claimant returns on day sixty-four and refuses every easy way to make the conflict disappear.
Save Me a Noisy One
At a new materials cell, Pavo is asked to judge a disputed sound from the work he left behind. The test is fair; the reason he was brought into it is not.
Askable
A book conservator discovers that his eleven-year-old daughter has been asking private questions through a care channel, and that he has already crossed a line trying to learn what they were.
The Blue Book
Every Thursday, a seating system puts Tamsin and Vik at the same table. When a shared lunch leaves only one of them able to stay, she has to decide what their arrangement was worth.
A Better Path
Before a Choice Center appointment, Aster Court asks what kind of life you are willing to carry forward. What enters the Window changes the years that follow.