Author

David Afsharirad

David Afsharirad is the editor of the anthology series The Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction, from Baen Books. A graduate of North Carolina State's MFA in creative writing program, his fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Space and Time Magazine, SpeckLit, and Anthology from Another Dimension. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and son.

The Promise

Catherine shifted in the silk nightgown, worried that it was too much, too over-the-top-Romantic with a capital R. Floor-length and sheer, it made her look like something out of an old-timey movie. But it was periwinkle blue and cornflower yellow, the same as their wedding…