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8 free-to-read stories tagged “Disability”

Flow

Marissa Lingen Fireside 2018 ShortStory 2,955 words

Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.

Contemporary FantasyDisabilityHopeful

Content warnings 1

death-of-a-loved-one

Last Gods

Sam J. Miller Drowned Worlds 2016 ShortStory Climate Change 6,200 words

On the edge of the ruined land, village people worship Orcas as gods. Unbeliever Kelb is up to something, and Adze tries to help him because she loves him.

Climate FictionDisabilityPost Apocalyptic

Content warnings 3

animal-harmdeathviolence

Ancestries

Sheree Renée Thomas Nine Bar Blues 2020 ShortStory 4,288 words

Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.

AfrofuturismDisabilityWest Africa

Content warnings 3

ableismabuseviolence

By Claw, By Hand, By Silent Speech

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry & A. Merc Rustad Uncanny 2018 ShortStory SF Adventure 4,425 words

The Owen corporation has brought some dinosaurs through their “gate,” and Dr. Crimshaw thinks she can use sign language to communicate with one of them.

BiopunkDisabilityHopeful

Coming Home

Dhiyanah Hassan Strange Horizons 2026 ShortStory 5,165 words

If only Serthe'P had been able to fit in, maybe she could have protected —. No. This thought was dangerous. Mnth’R had helped her understand that their isolation had more to do with the Raja’s exploitation of their cast’s fears than any shortcomings of...

Science FantasyDisabilityTender

Content warnings 3

deathgoreviolence

PodCastle 953: The Will of the God of Music

PodCastle 2026 ♪ audio

Author : P. H. Low Narrator : Jo Moran Host : Eleanor R. Wood Audio Producer : Eric Valdes Previously published in Fantasy Magazine, March 2023 Rated PG-13 The Will of the God of Music by P. H. Low You hear the door open as if in dreaming. Back when you...

Contemporary FantasyDisabilitySecond Person

Content warnings 1

body-horror

PseudoPod 873: A Box of Hair and Nail

Pseudopod 2023 ♪ audio

PseudoPod 873: A Box of Hair and Nail is a PseudoPod original. “This story was inspired by an urban myth that terrified my mum when she was a teenager in Malaysia. The legend went that if you didn’t dispose of your nail and hair clippings carefully, an...

Folk HorrorDisabilitySoutheast Asia

Content warnings 3

body-horrorgoreviolence

Escape Pod 840: The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) / Alien Invader or Assistive Device?

John Wiswell Escape Pod 2022 ♪ audio

The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) By John Wiswell Dinosaurs don’t want to kill you; they just don’t care that you’re there. More people have been sat on by brontosauruses than have been eaten by all the theropods combined. Since I joined security on the...

First ContactDisabilityWhimsical

Content warnings 3

deathgoreviolence