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Episode #7: “Stalemate” by Rose Lemberg
Stalemate
by Rose Lemberg
He wakes to warmth. The floor beneath his head. He stares at the spider-patterns etched into the ceiling, tiny and dense, gray against darker gray. No power runs through them. Inert now. Unneeded.
He wants to make the patterns work again.
—how could anyone survive a descent through Calamity storms? Above him, someone’s shiny dark shirt smells of static, a faraway storm passing. How are they still alive?
Alive, forever, trapped inside this loneliness.
A full transcript appears under the cut:
Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode seven for May 21st, 2015. I'm your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.
Our story this week is "Stalemate" by Rose Lemberg.
Rose Lemberg is a queer bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interfictions, Uncanny, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction anthology, and other venues. Rose co-edits Stone Telling, a magazine of boundary-crossing poetry, with Shweta Narayan. She has edited Here, We Cross, an anthology of queer and genderfluid speculative poetry from Stone Telling (Stone Bird Press), and The Moment of Change, an anthology of feminist speculative poetry (Aqueduct Press). She is currently editing a new fiction anthology, An Alphabet of Embers. You can find Rose at http://roselemberg.net and @roselemberg, and support her on Patreon at patreon.com/roselemberg.
Stalemate
by Rose Lemberg
He wakes to warmth. The floor beneath his head. He stares at the spider-p
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Stalemate
by Rose Lemberg
He wakes to warmth. The floor beneath his head. He stares at the spider-patterns etched into the ceiling, tiny and dense, gray against darker gray. No power runs through them. Inert now. Unneeded.
He wants to make the patterns work again.
—how could anyone survive a descent through Calamity storms? Above him, someone’s shiny dark shirt smells of static, a faraway storm passing. How are they still alive?
Alive, forever, trapped inside this loneliness.
A full transcript appears under the cut:
Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode seven for May 21st, 2015. I'm your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.
Our story this week is "Stalemate" by Rose Lemberg.
Rose Lemberg is a queer bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interfictions, Uncanny, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction anthology, and other venues. Rose co-edits Stone Telling, a magazine of boundary-crossing poetry, with Shweta Narayan. She has edited Here, We Cross, an anthology of queer and genderfluid speculative poetry from Stone Telling (Stone Bird Press), and The Moment of Change, an anthology of feminist speculative poetry (Aqueduct Press). She is currently editing a new fiction anthology, An Alphabet of Embers. You can find Rose at http://roselemberg.net and @roselemberg, and support her on Patreon at patreon.com/roselemberg.
Stalemate
by Rose Lemberg
He wakes to warmth. The floor beneath his head. He stares at the spider-p