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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #263
The Oracle and the Sea
Megan Arkenberg
When she plays, it’s the old songs—not her heavy concertos but brisk two-fingered melodies, folk tunes and old hymns, the first songs her youngest students would master. Every month when the soldiers bring her supply of flour and milk, they also bring waterproofed parcels of manuscript paper and cool bricks of ink. She always refuses them.
The Bodice, The Hem, The Woman, Death
Karen Osborne
I had long since tired of my mother’s lessons: these polite assaults, this bastard corsetry. But what was I supposed to do? Tell her no? I was her only daughter. My mother would have fought her little war for my appearance, her weapons silk and silver and the voices of our family's dead, even if we’d known that our world was already over, that the armies of the underworld were slipping through our walls through broaches and hatpins, necklaces and bangles, boxes and bags, using the city's favorite things against it.
Megan Arkenberg
When she plays, it’s the old songs—not her heavy concertos but brisk two-fingered melodies, folk tunes and old hymns, the first songs her youngest students would master. Every month when the soldiers bring her supply of flour and milk, they also bring waterproofed parcels of manuscript paper and cool bricks of ink. She always refuses them.
The Bodice, The Hem, The Woman, Death
Karen Osborne
I had long since tired of my mother’s lessons: these polite assaults, this bastard corsetry. But what was I supposed to do? Tell her no? I was her only daughter. My mother would have fought her little war for my appearance, her weapons silk and silver and the voices of our family's dead, even if we’d known that our world was already over, that the armies of the underworld were slipping through our walls through broaches and hatpins, necklaces and bangles, boxes and bags, using the city's favorite things against it.
24 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 17, 2018
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Scott H. Andrews
469 books24 followersScott H. Andrews is a writer of science fiction. He teaches college chemistry. He is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Andrews's short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Space and Time, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, On Spec, Crossed Genres, and M-Brane SF.
Andrews's short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Space and Time, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, On Spec, Crossed Genres, and M-Brane SF.
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November 14, 2018
The Oracle and the Sea by Megan Arkenberg
5 stars
Wow... the writing in this story while prose is nonetheless pure poetry. Reading it felt as though Kashmai was actually singing the words. Just stunning... it left me overwhelm and touched.
The Bodice, The Hem, The Woman, Death by Karen Osborne
5 stars
The authors use of metaphor in this piece is superb. It brings a beauty to a story that is otherwise about death, suffering and hopelessness. Yet by the end the nameless narrator of the story manages to find a trickle of hope in her shattered world.
5 stars
Wow... the writing in this story while prose is nonetheless pure poetry. Reading it felt as though Kashmai was actually singing the words. Just stunning... it left me overwhelm and touched.
The Bodice, The Hem, The Woman, Death by Karen Osborne
5 stars
The authors use of metaphor in this piece is superb. It brings a beauty to a story that is otherwise about death, suffering and hopelessness. Yet by the end the nameless narrator of the story manages to find a trickle of hope in her shattered world.
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