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Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins

Louis Inglis Hall Clarkesworld 2025 Novelette Science Fiction 12,590 words

"Do you remember being born? I expect that you do. After all, it happened only a very few minutes ago. Sensation comes first. Perhaps it was my voice you noticed—a ragged voice, new-carved. These are your first sounds. Sandpaper words, and the even temper...

BiopunkColonialismSecond Person

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death

Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents

Louis Inglis Hall Clarkesworld 2025 ShortStory Science Fiction 3,560 words

"They cut off Auréle’s head and they put it on a pike above the city’s third best bridge. To me, that seemed a shame. I had only just got his nose right. It had a crook in it, Auréle’s nose. A sporting accident, from his days at the Academy. He’d been...

MetafictionalArt And CreationRestrained

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death-of-a-loved-oneviolence

Podcast: Cold Comfort

Louis Inglis Hall Strange Horizons 2026

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Louis Inglis Hall's 'Cold Comfort' read by Emmie Christie. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠

Magical RealismFatherhoodElegiac

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deathdeath-of-a-loved-onesuicide

The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods by Louis Inglis Hall

Louis Inglis Hall Clarkesworld 2026

DAY 1 Hello, little switch. Welcome to the world! I’m your Buddy, and I’m very pleased to meet you. You shouldn’t be afraid. Try to orient yourself, if you can. […]

DystopiaAI PersonhoodBleak

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violencewar