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5 free-to-read stories tagged “Mortality”

Upgrade Day

RJ Taylor Clarkesworld 2023 ShortStory Science Fiction 2,080 words

"Today is upgrade day and Gabriel, a model 2098 post-human intelligence robotic service assistant, wears an appropriately festive hat. The perfect cone of polka-dotted purple paper slopes to one side of his head, his glossy plastic surface giving the weak...

AI FictionMortalityTender

And Now, A Preview of Coming Attractions

Adam-Troy Castro Lightspeed 2021 Novelette Science Fiction 9,090 words

"I have experienced some tastes of my afterlife as a crustacean. In it, I am one of many, on a beach with purple sand abutting a sea that could be water but might be some other liquid entirely, beneath stars that seem larger and brighter than any I see in...

SlipstreamMortalityPhilosophical

Content warnings 2

deathsuicide

Immortal Coil

Ellen Kushner Uncanny 2021 ShortStory Fantasy 6,044 words

"Marlowe is going to outlive him. Of this, he is sure. He has seen him on the streets of Blackfriars, of Southwark, in Bladder Lane, near Aldgate… He can pretend to be anything, young Kit. Not so young Kit. The two men are of an age: born the same year...

Historical FantasyMortalityHistorical Europe

Preserved in Amber

Samantha Murray Clarkesworld 2021 Novelette Science Fiction 9,661 words

"The taxi from Guiyang Airport passed through long tunnels with curved white crescents every fifty or so meters along. It was simply some reflective material, but the bright curves leading her off into the distance through the darkness of the tunnel made...

First ContactMortalityElegiac

Content warnings 1

death

We Are Not Phoenixes

John Wiswell Fireside 2021 ShortStory 817 words

Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.

Magical RealismMortalityRestrained

Content warnings 1

illness-and-pandemic