“Primitive” depends on your perspective.
“Learning Letters” by Carrie Vaughn (2023) — 4,384 words (about 18 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Lightspeed magazine issue #153, February 2023.
Learning Letters by Carrie Vaughn
Category: Your Daily Dose of Empathy
Pinocchio Photography by Angela Liu
An interesting take on post-mortem photography
“Pinocchio Photography” by Angela Liu (2023) — 6,450 words (about 26 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Clarkesworld magazine issue #198, March 2023.
A Man Walks Into a Bar; or, In Which More Than Four Decades After My Father’s Reluctant Night of Darts on West 54th Street, I Finally Understand What Needs to Be Done by Scott Edelman
A short story with a long title.
“A Man Walks Into a Bar; or, In Which More Than Four Decades After My Father’s Reluctant Night of Darts on West 54th Street, I Finally Understand What Needs to Be Done” by Scott Edelman (2023) — 5,977 words (about 24 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Lightspeed magazine issue #152, January 2023.
The Ones Who Stay and Fight by N.K. Jemisin
This is sort of a companion piece or response to the classic Ursula K. Le Guin story “The Ones Who Walk Away form Omelas“.
“The Ones Who Stay and Fight” by N.K. Jemisin (2020) — 3,829 words (about 16 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Lightspeed magazine issue #116, January 2020.
Cold Relations by Mary Robinette Kowal
A story of siblings and magic.
“Cold Relations” by Mary Robinette Kowal (2023) — 8,256 words (about 3 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Uncanny magazine issue #50, January/Februaty 2023.
Nebula Award Nominees for Short Fiction, Part 6 of 6
The last one! Tomorrow the winners will be announced!
Nominee for Best Novelette
“Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka” by Christine Hanolsy (2024) — 9,884 words (about 40 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine issue #405, 18 April 2024.
Nominee for Best Short Story
“We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim (2024) — 2,832 words (about 12 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Lightspeed magazine issue #168, May 2024.
Nebula Award Nominees for Short Fiction, Part 5 of 6
Almost there!
Nominee for Best Novelette
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (2024) — 8,370 words (about 34 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Clarkesworld magazine issue #212, May 2024.
Nominee for Best Short Story
“V*mpire” by P.H. Lee (2024) — 5,320 words (about 22 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Reactor magazine, 23 October 2024.
Nebula Award Nominees for Short Fiction, Part 4 of 6
My continuation of nominees that can be read online for free.
Nominee for Best Novelette
“Joanna’s Bodies” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (2024) — 11,100 words (about 45 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Psychopomp magazine, 1 July 2024.
Nominee for Best Short Story
“Evan: A Remainder” by Jordan Kurella (2024) — 4,483 words (about 18 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Reactor magazine, 31 January 2024.
Nebula Award Nominees for Short Fiction, Part 3 of 6
Here are the next two nominees that can be read online for free.
Nominee for Best Novelette
“Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A.W. Prihandita (2024) — 8,730 words (about 35 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Clarkesworld magazine issue #218, November 2024.
Nominee for Best Short Story
“Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachel K. Jones (2024) — 549 words (about 3 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Lightspeed magazine issue #164, January 2024.
Nebula Award Nominees for Short Fiction, Part 2 of 6
Two more nominees that can be read online for free.
Nominee for Best Novelette
“What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden (2024) — 16,300words (about 66 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Psychopomp magazine online, February 2024.
Nominee for Best Short Story
“The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak (2024) — 3,080 words (about 13 minutes for the average reader)
Originally published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet magazine issue #48, September 2024.