Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi... thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of...
A man decides to visit his mistress. But on arrival, he sees her embracing another man. He waits for the interloper to leave, then goes in, starts an argument with the woman, strikes her and it results in her death. Having left the flat without...
Nebula Award Best Short Story Winner WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction Cóyotl Awards Best Short Story Winner World Fantasy Award Best Short Story Nominee They were shy creatures, the jackalope wives, though there was nothing shy about the...
Best remembered for his sensational bestselling novels of the 1930s, James M. Cain may well be one of the most important, yet still misunderstood, of American authors. Among other writers and for certain critics, his reputation and singularity are...
A family on the verge of self-destruction finds themselves isolated in their bathroom during a tornado warning.
“Don’t look now but Max Booth III is one of the best in horror, and he’s only getting started.”
—Josh Malerman,...
From Nigerian author ‘Pemi Aguda comes “Masquerade Season,” a Tor.com Original short story
Pauly is a good son. When he brings home three beautiful Masquerades, he’s expecting that his mother will be proud of him. But when his mother...
A brand new stand-alone deep space adventure from Alastair Reynolds, featuring the author’s long-running character Merlin, who has previously appeared in “Merlin’s Gun” (1999), “Hideaway” (2000) and “Minla’s Flowers” (2007).
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A Canticle for Leibowitz meets The Hunt for Red October in Andrew Kelly Stewart’s breakout novella We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep, about a fundamentalist order of monks who control Earth’s last nuclear submarine
Remy is a Chorister, one...