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.
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Stories
Public short fiction and novella-length pieces set in the Worlds of Our Making universe.
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.
Opt-In
During his child's fever night, a father who runs his home by hand has to decide whether the help he refused is exactly what she needs.
The Noise Budget
A sound designer makes a care facility safer, then meets the widower who needs one imperfect sound returned.