Nitrate Nocturnes
Novelette 7,608 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
Everyone has a timer on their wrists counting down the years, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until they meet their soul mates. Fiona’s just 24, and her timer says she’ll have to wait 40 years. So what to do until then?
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