Author
Lisa Mason
Lisa Mason has published ten novels, including Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist) and The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book), a collection of published fiction, Strange Ladies: 7 Stories, and three dozen short stories and novelettes in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her story, "Tomorrow's Child," sold outright to Universal Pictures and is in development as a major motion picture.
Her new SF novel, Chrome, is forthcoming. Visit her at lisamason.com.
Her new SF novel, Chrome, is forthcoming. Visit her at lisamason.com.
House Hunting
The house crouches among the tall oaks, nearly motionless amid the wild blackberry bushes. I shift my spear from my right hand to my left, palms sweaty. My eight-month-old fetal daughter aims her tiny foot against the side of my womb. I stifle my grunt of pain. We need this…
Bess
The alien impregnated me this morning. He has impregnated me ever since I could first conceive, his scientific syringe filled with the fertilizing fluid from an anonymous male of my own kind. The alien waited two weeks after I gave birth to another son, whom I named Ralph,…