Marisca Pichette
Clarkesworld
2023
ShortStory
Science Fiction
4,030 words
details
"Our generation ship never grows. Our faces—varied as the stars that swaddle us, far from everything we knew—never age. Do we learn, cut off from all the past? Do we change? I’ve asked myself these questions, and so many more, over the...
Generation ShipDiasporaEpistolary Adjacent
Content warnings 1
suicide
Marisca Pichette
Strange Horizons
2026
ShortStory
5,088 words
details
What I’d taken for white beads are actually human teeth, mixed with white crystals I identified (via taste, to Mole’s horror) as salt. Mole looks at the mixture and shudders. I don’t know how to explain why I keep them. As much as I wish to deny the...
Secondary World FantasyFriendshipDread
Content warnings 3
body-horrordeathgore
Marisca Pichette
Nightmare
2026
details
1. There is no better friend than the dermestid . I found them first in the woods, adorning the staring sockets of a coyote skull. So small I could have crushed them, they accomplished more than my child hands could—crawling, chewing, cleaning better than...