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Ceffo
On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a secret that could change her life… “Beneath my sorrows, I hold a city.” Nizar Qabbani She...
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Tor.com is home to an award-winning short fiction program, with fifteen years of original stories for science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans to enjoy. We’ve made reading our stories even easier by...
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Detonation Boulevard
In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, all while dodging the competition, fatigue, and violent lava geysers—there’s only one way Cat knows...
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Download the Tor.com 15th Anniversary Short Fiction Bundle
This year on July 20th, Tor.com turns 15! Since that long-ago year of 2008, we’ve published more than 600 original stories from authors around the world. To celebrate, we’ve pulled together some...
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Burning Girls
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes, edited by Ellen...
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The Devil in America
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson, edited by...
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Blood Is Another Word for Hunger
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger” by Rivers Solomon,...
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Six Months, Three Days
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders, edited by...
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What It Means to Be a Car
An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt… Welcome to Small Heaven, home of Jennet Harada. You are Ketrin Nanhola? Yes, that’s me. My name is Seishin Toyota and I am...
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Headhunting
A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a cathedral–but why would someone want it? Amir wakes up from a dream about a flesh-and-bone piano,...
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The Three O’Clock Dragon
Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing dragon and her unconventional platform… Liza exited the south tunnel just in time to see the launch....
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The Job at the End of the World
A weary resilience worker should know better than anyone: no one is safe when the world is always ending… The nail gun was busted so I was up on the roof with an actual hammer. It wasn’t bad: a minor...
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The Passing of the Dragon
A woman who fears she’s failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her favorite poets and finds something even more wondrous, but also more impossible to capture on canvas…...
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Download the Tor.com Summer 2023 Short Fiction Bundle
Welcome, readers! We’ve had a busy summer in short fiction with stories about chess-playing bears, post-human civilizations, mystical Italian towns, interstellar rally races, AI cars, PIs dabbling with...
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The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener
After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera from the “old world” times finds his life upended by an orphaned girl. . . The magazine is called...
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FORM 8774-D
It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employee for the government agency begins to wonder if work is following her home. . . Thursday, 8:47 a.m....
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Jack O’Dander
The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may not be real. . . The backdrop Graham uses for the Zoom meeting makes it look like he lives in a luxury apartment,...
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Not the Most Romantic Thing
On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each other’s secrets (and one significant surprise) while conducting a recovery mission on a mining asteroid scheduled for...
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The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery
A new Judge Dee mystery! While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan discover the only thing more menacing than a vampire child is twin vampire...
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On the Fox Roads
While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight lines when you run the fox roads… I. The...
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The Canadian Miracle
A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery workers’ efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi. This story is set in the same future as...
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A Heart Between Teeth
A new novelette set in the realms of Kerstin Hall’s acclaimed The Mkalis Cycle series. The 813th realm of Mkalis has fallen to a cruel and mercurial god, but Tahmais, its would-be successor, finds an...
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Download the Tor.com September/October 2023 Short Fiction Bundle
Welcome, readers! For our September/October 2023 bundle, we’ve got stories about a struggling artist, a post-apocalyptic archivist, an office worker at an unusual government agency, a dark entity with...
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Sun River
Princess Mwadi of Everfair teams up with American actress Rima Bailey on a reconnaissance mission in Egypt in an attempt to thwart the European spies intent on destabilizing Everfair and its business...
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Ivy, Angelica, Bay
When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l’Abielle steps up to protect her community with the help of a mysterious orphaned girl in this charming...
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The Sound of Reindeer
Ada’s holiday trip to meet her girlfriend’s family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she discovers the family’s unusual Christmas Eve tradition… The first thing Ada Cirillo noticed on the...
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All of Tor.com’s Original Short Fiction Published in 2023
We have so much to celebrate as we look back on 2023! In July, Tor.com marked its 15th anniversary, having published more than 600 original stories from authors around the world while exploring the...
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Also, the Cat
Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest in peace while their grudges live on… Rosalee died, aged seventy-six. Her oldest sister, Irene...
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Download the Tor.com November/December 2023 Short Fiction Bundle
Welcome, readers and happy new year! For our November/December 2023 bundle we’ve got stories about a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a Canadian Recovery worker, deconstructed fairy tales, and a family...
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Liminal Spaces
An engineer who frequently travels for her job, suddenly finds herself in airports other than the one she arrived in… When she got off the plane, Amelia was thinking about her boyfriend, Jerome....
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