Found 97 works tagged 'Romance'.
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Dear Penelope
Published Mar 15, 2020 · 769 words (3 minutes) · 170 views
Science Fiction Romance epistolary emails
Starfish, a spaceship journey, and e-mails.
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Bedlam Inn
Published Mar 15, 2020 · 5,974 words (22 minutes) · 103 views
Fantasy Historical Romance regency romance Christmas Story
In the countryside of Regency England on Christmas Eve, no room at the inn: two strangers are forced to take shelter in the stable.
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Tam-lin
Published Mar 10, 2020 · 1,543 words (6 minutes) · 90 views
Fantasy Romance retelling fairy tale Scotland traditional
My retelling of the Scottish ballad about a brave girl who risks all to rescue the knight she loves from entrhallment to the Fairy Queen.
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The Price of Chivalry
Published Mar 5, 2020 · 1,187 words (5 minutes) · 152 views
Literary Fiction Romance trains libraries Berkeley taxi
How much does chivalry really cost on a summer night where young ideals are alive and well?
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Europa Spring
Published Mar 3, 2020 · 3,599 words (14 minutes) · 4 likes · 366 views
Science Fiction Romance Jupiter Jupiter moon disabled main character genetic modification disabled lead character Europa disability disabled protagonist space colony
150 years in the ice and radiation of Jupiter’s moon has left a small community irrevocably changed—right down to their DNA. When a probe from a space station drops out of the sky with an offer of “rescue,” Vlad and his wife Marie have a difficult (and life-altering) choice to make.
Author Elinor Caiman Sands lives and writes in the UK. Her work has appeared in the Defying Doomsday anthology, Cosmos Online, and the Strange Bedfellows Anthology of Political Science Fiction.
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Brief Candle (Io, #2)
Published Mar 3, 2020 · 7,835 words (29 minutes) · 84 views
Science Fiction Romance genetic engineering mining volcano Jupiter Jupiter moon
Magrian is an Iod, a genetically engineered "non-person" destined to spend his life as a brutally oppressed miner on Jupiter's hostile moon, Io. But his life is turned upside down when he meets Jazri, an expert on volcanism from nearby Europa. This story is a sequel to “In Place of Darkness” which first appeared in the Strange Bedfellows anthology of Political Science Fiction, (Bundoran Press, 2014).
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NPCs
Published Feb 27, 2020 · 992 words (4 minutes) · 42 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction Romance
This is a story about love mostly, with a small sprinkling of philosophy and quantum weirdness.
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Published Feb 21, 2020 · 2,431 words (9 minutes)
Horror Literary Fiction Science Fiction Romance Other Dimensions quantum physics lgbtqia+ metaphysics The Beatles gay non-linear lgbt breakup slipstream
This story first appeared around last year's Valentine's Day, and ironically, it's a love story about a breakup. Also, metaphysics, sculptures, and weird objects showing up in your living room from other dimensions, with offhand cameos from the Beatles and the Eleventh Doctor. This is my queer unabashed love letter to all things metaphysical. It also came straight out of one of the weirdest dreams I've had. (Why thank you, my subconscious.)
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Of Late I Have Dreamt of Venus
Published Feb 18, 2020 · 7,647 words (28 minutes) · 133 views
Science Fiction Romance terraforming venus
Although I didn't know the word at the time I wrote this story, it's about an oligarch who attempts to accomplish what no government has the will or drive to do: terraform Venus. This story was included in Gardner Dozois' YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION anthology, 25th edition.
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Lashawnda at the End
Published Feb 12, 2020 · 6,553 words (24 minutes) · 1 like · 126 views
Science Fiction Romance aging space exploration medicine Biology
Wherever we turn on Earth, life surprises and amazes us with complexity and cleverness. Surely when we find it on other planets, life will present itself in unexpected ways. Biologists Lashawnda and Spencer study the unusual plants on Papaver while their expedition fights to survive a catastrophe.
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