Author: Marcelo

New short story: The Death-Baiters of the Worldwide Catastrophe Circuit

A man and a woman sat in a hotel room in a city haunted by death. The only noise coming…

New short story: My Brother the Sensor

Whatever the Ministry finds in his weekly blood samples they will never share, but we’ve shared a room for the…

New short story: “Forensic Geology”

“It’s an autopsy report on our country,” I told my husband when he asked, but I didn’t show him my…

New short story: “The Ghost Town on the Moon”

Huge and luxurious — for a hole deep in the Moon’s ground — armies of autonomous robots kept building lunar…

New short story: “On Accounting as Slow-motion Necromancy”

Anybody could’ve done it, given enough time. The rest on Adversarial Metanoia.

New short story: How I Found the Brother I Didn’t Know I Had

I learned about him when the police arrested me for the murder of his mistress. We look very much alike,…

New short story: “The Spirit of Global Sport”

When the Qatar 2022 World Cup final match was interrupted by the stadium becoming an overheated deathtrap, a terrorist cyber-attack…

New short story: “The Overview Effect”

Blue and white. Some browns. Some green. Ever since humans could, seeing Earth from above was a source of awe….

New short story: “Sideways”

There’s a trick to watching ad-supported videos in phones, TVs, or laptops: during the ads look just above the camera,…

New short story: “The Rewilding”

Viral genocides, fundamentalist STDs, famines in a test tube. As effective genetic engineering moved from tricky legality to illegal ubiquity,…