Author
Renee Carter Hall
Renee Carter Hall works as a medical transcriptionist by day and as a writer, poet, and artist all the time. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including Strange Horizons, Black Static, the anthology Bewere the Night, and the Anthro Dreams podcast. She lives in West Virginia with her husband, their cat, and a ridiculous number of creative works-in-progress. Readers can find more about her and her work at reneecarterhall.com.
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Yesterdayland
The door of the Machine hissed, and the girl came out at a run, eager, fists clenched and legs pumping, as if the door had opened on ice cream and roller coasters and every last birthday wish. She skidded, then, to a stop, her sneakers sliding in ash and grit. So this was it.…
Nevermore
The crow tightened his grip on the silent power line. He was not going to fly. He was not. He was not. An instant later, he opened his wings, launched from his perch, and flew the next slow circle of his route. The transmitter embedded in his back had long since given out, and…