Clarke: 1777 books

A woman isolated in the Mojave desert...an alien invasion...and a primal obsession. For Gillian Hall running her diner in a desert outpost is the good life, until a man calling himself Gabriel arrives as her enigmatic and unpredictable new short-order cook. On the same day fiery explosions...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our...

1. Three people are about to have a very bad day. All of them different to the other. All of them destined to come together in a situation of circumstance.2. She wakes to the a brightly lit room, her lover’s mouth inches from hers. It’s going to be a wonderful day... Her thoughts are becoming...

As a young boy, Patrick McKay knew his father had a heart. What he didn’t know was that this heart was not only cold, but made entirely of stone. Patrick found this out the hard way when he was awaken by the punishment his father was inflicting on him after finding out the one secret Patrick had...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our...

Mama has died and is now with the Great Spirits. Her strong-willed, crotchety husband is dead set on having her ashes buried in the Historic Conundrum County Cemetery. Mama's dying wish to her beloved son Hackett, "Don't let him do it!" During her lifetime Mama was a great lover of...

The poem, which has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to the poem, American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors...

When Dexter DeGregory, a prominent attorney from the metropolitan DC area, Trevor Harrison, a successful Architect and Interior Designer, and Belinda Todson, a savvy, classy housewife, found love, their days of untangling lies and unearthing deceit were over; or so they believed. But soon they found...

Jessie has come home for the summer after graduating from college, to house sit for her parents. She's lonely and horny, and she can't help herself when she sees Mr. Sherman watching her pleasuring herself in her yard. He's her best friend Lexie's Dad, but suddenly she sees him in a whole new way! FOR...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our May 2015 issue (#104) contains: Original Fiction by Matthew Kressel ("The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies"),...

This anthology contains 14 stories by authors from around the world. As winners of the first Onion Custard Short Story Competition, they beat the competition and made it to the final edition. The entry criteria were simple: Write a story of no more than 1,000 words. Write...

Life should be looked upon as a sacred thing, to be handled carefully. If something terrible happens, you stop for a while and have a think, and then you work around the next big problem coming up. Like water around a rock. And you still help people when you can, even your worst enemy. Some...

A fragile metal plate created in 1847 is found by Prof. Harry Inman in an old bookshop and becomes a pathway into a Victorian summer. A time-travel story... Browsing in an old shop, Professor Harry Inman comes across the image of a famous hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY, taken on a fragile silvered...

Clementine thinks her cousin Fan is everything that she could never be: beautiful, imaginative, wild. The girls promise to be best friends and sisters after the summer is over, but Clementine's life in the city is different from Fan's life in dusty Lake Conapaira. And Fan is looking for something,...