X Marks the Story: November 2018

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Finding excellent short SFF can often feel like hunting for buried treasure. Sometimes it takes a guide to help fill in the map, connecting readers with fantastic fiction and showing where X Marks The Story–a new monthly column from Charles Payseur. It takes a great deal of strength to defy X-pectations. To fight back against the pressures pushing people into the strict confines of their roles. Roles that offer no relief or reward, but merely make it easier for corruption to spread and prosper. In the stories we’re X-ploring today, things are not X-actly going great. It’s a tour of broken worlds, ripe with deception and pain and people struggling to get by. To find meaning and a reason to keep fighting when it seems useless. When resistance feels futile in the face of the corruption, greed, and omnipresent violence. For all the bleakness that the settings might imply, however, the stories are very much about resistance, revolution, and hope. Both on a scale of governments and realities themselves, and on a much more intimate level, the characters must navigate personal identity and trust amid the possibilities of destruction, violation, and betrayal. And while teetering on the brink of the […]