Author
Will McIntosh
A nominee for both the Nebula awards this year and winner of the Hugo for "Bridesicle," Will McIntosh�s work has appeared in Asimov�s (where he won the 2010 Reader's Award for short story), Strange Horizons, Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction 2009, and many other venues. In 2005 his story "Soft Apocalypse" was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Association and the British Fantasy Society awards for best short story. His story �Followed,� which was published in the anthology The Living Dead, is currently being produced as a short film. Will is a psychology professor in the Southeastern U.S. He became the father of twins in 2008, which explains the precipitous dropoff in his productivity in 2009-10. The story that follows is a companion piece to "Perfect Violet", which was first published in On Spec, and appeared in Science Fiction: Best of the Year 2008.
Free Lunch
It took a moment to place the sound, because no one should have been making it in their house. It was the soft, rhythmic squeal of a mattress and the wheeming of a woman approaching a stifled climax. The sound sent an icy blast through Phoebe's stomach. She had begun to suspect,…
Perfect Black
When Jahn stopped to flirt with a girl selling potatoes in the alley, he got that mirror deja-vue feeling, as if he'd been there before, only he'd been selling the potatoes. Even the sound of water dribbling from a nearby pipe onto the pavement seemed familiar. The more he…