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Jerry eBooks
Title Page
Cover Gallery
About the Authors
Issue 137, February 2018
Deep Down in the Cloud
Obliteration
Umbernight
The Power is Out
1
2
3
4
Epilogue
Soldierin’
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi
Issue 136, January 2018
A World to Die For
Say it Low, then Loud
Sour Milk Girls
A Cigarette Burn In Your Memory
The Lighthouse Girl
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again
Issue 135, December 2017
The Rains on Mars
Crossing LaSalle
Falling in Love with Martians and Machines
Darkness, Our Mother
Landmark
Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts
Issue 134, November 2017
Prasetyo Plastics
Retrieval
Dead Heroes
Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons?
The Catalog of Virgins
Second Person, Present Tense
Martian Blood
Issue 133, October 2017
The Sum of Her Expectations
The Nightingales in Plaires
The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon
The Psychology Game
Intro to Prom
1. Marine Biology
2. Civics
3. Sports Medicine
4. Physics
5. Statistics
Shiomah’s Land
Red Lights, and Rain
Issue 132, September 2017
Antarctic Birds
Little /^^^\&-
The Secret Lives of Bots
Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics
1
2
3
4
5
Möbius Continuum
0. The End
1. Möbius Ring
2. Auxiliary Body
3. Klein Bottle
4. The White Room
5. Möbius Space-time
6. The Beginning
Bonding with Morry
Warmth
Issue 131, August 2017
Twisted Knots
Reversion
The Stone Weta
In the Blind
A Man Out of Fashion
Fleet
Venice Drowned
Issue 130, July 2017
An Age of Ice
1
2
3
4
Travelers
The Significance of Significance
The Bridgegroom
Last Chance
Forever Bound
The Oracle
Issue 129, June 2017
Fool’s Cap
My Dear, Like the Sky and Stars and Sun
Neptune’s Trident
The Ways Out
An Account of the Sky Whales
Human Error
The Waiting Stars
Issue 128, May 2017
Streams and Mountains
We Who Live in the Heart
Baroness
The Person Who Saw Cetus
Running the Snake
The Man Who Walked Home
Issue 127, April 2017
Conglomerate
Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus
Left of Bang: Preemptive Self-Actualization for Autonomous Systems
Sunwake, in the Lands of Teeth
The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales
Thing and Sick
Ancient Engines
Real Ghosts
Issue 126, March 2017
Two Ways of Living
Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe
Crown of Thorns
Goodnight, Melancholy
The Discovered Country
At the Cross-Time Jaunter’s Ball
Issue 125, February 2017
Assassins
Prosthetic Daughter
How Bees Fly
Rain Ship
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
0
Dragon’s Deep
The Dragonslayer of Merebarton
Issue 124, January 2017
The Ghost Ship Anastasia
A Series of Steaks
Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities
Interchange
Milla
Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance
The Shipmaker
Issue 123, December 2016
A Tower for the Coming World
Painter of Stars
1. Deepening Dusk
2. DaVinci
3. My Sun
4. Arcturus
5. Frontline
6. Plague
7. The Meaning of Existence
Checkerboard Planet
Blue Grey Blue
A Future Far Too Bright
A Soldier of the City
1. Corn Parade
2. Men giving orders
3. Kinetic penetrator
4. Dog soldier
5. Machines
6. Surviving weapons
7. A soldier of the city
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World
Issue 122, November 2016
What the Stories Steal
Where Water Joins
Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart
Follow the White Line
Western Heaven
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Afrofuturist 419
An Eligible Boy
Reef
Issue 121, October 2016
The Next Scene
One Sister, Two Sisters, Three
The Calculations of Artificials
Introduction: Some numbers
1 -The solitary monitor of calculated behavior
2 -Senile and willful twins
3 -They contained fire with paper to survive
4 -Destiny is some sort of inverted calculation
5 -The fruits of humanity
Postscript
Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home
Rusties
Old Domes
The Very Pulse of the Machine
Issue 120, September 2016
The Despoilers
The Green Man Cometh
Aphrodite’s Blood, Decanted
The Opposite and the Adjacent
Toward the Luminous Towers
The House of Half Mirrors
The Dark City Luminous
No Placeholder for You My Love
1
2
3
4
5
Issue 119, August 2016
First Light at Mistaken Point
Teenagers from Outer Space
Now is the Hour
The Engine’s Imperial
Reclamation
Alone, on the Wind
The Fish Merchant
A Stopped Clock
Issue 118, July 2016
Helio Music
Fish Dance
The Sentry Branch Predictor Spec: A Fairy Tale
Sephine and the Leviathan
Chapter 3/6: Trajectory
Chapter 2/6: Spite
Chapter 3/6: Down
Chapter 4/6: Grounded
Chapter 5/6: Others
Chapter 6/6: Flight
Against the Stream
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Nahiku West
Lion Walk
Issue 117, June 2016
And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices
Things With Beards
.identity
The Snow of Jinyang
Translators’ Note
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
The Promise of God
Pathways
Issue 116, May 2016
Left Behind
The Universal Museum of Sagacity
Breathe
Jonas and the Fox
Away from Home
I. New San Francisco
II. Teahouse
III. Meteor Shower
IV. Planetships
V. Chang’an, “Europe”
VI. Countryside
VII. Seventh Avenue Square
VIII. Home
IX. The Alliance Awakens
X. Neutron Star
XI. Return to Life
Tough Times All Over
A Heap of Broken Images
Issue 115, April 2016
Touring with the Alien
Balin
The Bridge of Dreams
1
2
3
4
5
The Cedar Grid
Old Friends
Winter’s Wife
Issue 114, March 2016
Salvage Opportunity
Seven Cups of Coffee
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
The Governess with a Mechanical Womb
Coyote Invents the Land of the Dead
Chimera
1. Chimera
A. Adam
2. Echidna
B. Eden
3. Typhon
C. The Captain
4. Orthrus
D. Cabin Zero
5. Argus
E. The Complex Chimera
6. Epilogue
F. Regeneration
The King of Norway
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
Gray Wings
Issue 113, February 2016
The Fixer
That Which Stands Tends Toward Free Fall
In the Midst of Life
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Between Dragons and Their Wrath
Blood Dauber
Mercurial
Issue 112, January 2016
The Algorithms of Value
The Abduction of Europa
Extraction Request
Everybody Loves Charles
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Epilogue
The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale
Old Paint
Issue 111, December 2015
Yuanyuan’s Bubbles
Union
Morrigan in Shadow
When We Die on Mars
Technarion
Daddy’s World
Issue 110, November 2015
So Much Cooking
Your Right Arm
In the Queue for the Worldship Munawwer
The Hexagonal Bolero of Honeybees
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Way Down East
One Last, Great Adventure
Issue 109, October 2015
And If the Body Were Not the Soul
Ice
The Father
Egg Island
Summer at Grandma’s House
War, Ice, Egg, Universe
The Peacock Cloak
Issue 108, September 2015
Cremulator
Loving Grace
Preserve Her Memory
The Algebra of Events
The Occidental Bride
Canary Land
Sea Change
Issue 107, August 2015
Today I Am Paul
It Was Educational
Security Check
The Servant
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Dying Young
Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck
Issue 106, July 2015
When Your Child Strays From God
Further North
Android Whores Can’t Cry
The Hunger Tower
Snakes
The Accord
1. Tish Goldenhawk
2. Er-jian-die
3. Tish Goldenhawk
4. Er-jian-die
5. Tish Goldenhawk
Hair
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Issue 105, June 2015
Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix)
Asymptotic
This Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year
Forestspirit, Forestspirit
The Hole in the Hole
Riding the White Bull
Issue 104, May 2015
The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies
For the Love of Sylvia City
Miss Griffin Prepares to Commit Suicide Tonight
Ossuary
An Evolutionary Myth
Solace
Tyche and the Ants
Issue 103, April 2015
The Empress in Her Glory
Let Baser Things Devise
1: Pierre
2: Comped
3: Human Resources
4: Tsuki
5: “Apollo’s Death (and Perhaps a Resurrection)”
6: Fly Me to the Moon
7: Mare Serenitatis
8: Interstitium
9: From Clockwork Corp
10: Little Cupids
11: LXXV
12: Banter
13: Departure
14: Coda: Pan trogolodytes of Guinea
The Petals Abide
Postcards From Monster Island
Noble Mold
Weep For Day
Issue 102, March 2015
Slowly Builds An Empire
Cassandra
The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Part 2)
3. Green
4. Yellow
5. Orange
6. Red
All Original Brightness
Coming of the Light
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna
The Book Seller
Issue 101, February 2015
The Last Surviving Gondola Widow
Indelible
The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill
Meshed
The Osteomancer’s Son
It Takes Two
Issue 100, January 2015
Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight
A Universal Elegy
Cat Pictures Please
The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary
Ether
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Part 1)
An Exile of the Heart
This Wind Blowing, and This Tide
Laika’s Ghost
Issue 99, December 2014
Fatima’s Wound
The Magician and Laplace’s Demon
Now Dress Me in my Finest Suit and Lay Me in My Casket
No Vera There
The Emperor of Mars
The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter
Tongtong’s Summer
Issue 98, November 2014
Cameron Rhyder’s Legs
Pernicious Romance
The Long Haul
Cody
The Vorkuta Event
1
2
3
4
Issue 97, October 2014
Taxidermist in the Underworld
Lovecraft
Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom, must be willing to live with ghosts ($500 / Berkeley)
Pithing Needle
A Rich, Full Week
Wizard’s Six
Issue 96, September 2014
Weather
Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points
Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy
Falling Star
Her Furry Face
Giants
Issue 95, August 2014
Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion
Bonfires in Anacostia
1. The Table
2. The Duck
3. The Car
4. The Kid
5. The Wake
6. The Bridge
The Saint of the Sidewalks
The Rose Witch
Seven Years from Home
Preface
The First Adjustment
The Second Adjustment
The Third Adjustment
The Fourth Adjustment
The Fifth Adjustment
The Sixth Adjustment
The Seventh Adjustment
Afterword
Nevermore
Issue 94, July 2014
The Contemporary Foxwife
Stone Hunger
Soul’s Bargain
The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness
Gold Mountain
Issue 93, June 2014
wHole
Pepe
Communion
Lambing Season
Have Not Have
Issue 92, May 2014
The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye
A Gift in Time by Maggie Clark
Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds
Night of the Cooters
Beluthahatchie
Issue 91, April 2014
Passage of Earth
Autodidact
Water in Springtime
The Cuckoo
Going After Bobo
Shining Armor
Issue 90, March 2014
Morrigan in the Sunglare
Human Strandings and the Role of the Xenobiologist
Suteta Mono de wa Nai 捨てたものではない (Not Easily Thrown Away)
The Egg Man
Mountain Ways
Issue 89, February 2014
Tortoiseshell Cats Are Not Refundable
The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul
And Wash Out by Tides of War
Infinities
Martian Heart
Issue 88, January 2014
The Clockwork Soldier
Grave of the Fireflies
Wine
Ship’s Brother
Utriusque Cosmi
Issue 87, December 2013
Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel
Of Alternate Adventures and Memory
Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade
1016 to 1
The Pure Product
Issue 86, November 2013
Mystic Falls
The Aftermath
Never Dreaming (In Four Burns)
Manifest Destiny
Special Economics
Issue 85,October 2013
The Symphony of Ice and Dust
Bits
The Creature Recants
The Ki-anna
A Night at the Tarn House
Issue 84, September 2013
Mar Pacifico
The Promise of Space
One Flesh
Out of Copyright
First Principle
Issue 83, August 2013
Cry of the Kharchal
Shepherds
Found
The Lovers
Cilia-of-Gold
Issue 82, July 2013
Pockets Full of Stones
I Tell Thee All, I Can No More
Across the Terminator
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm
The Dust Assassin
Issue 81, June 2013
The Urashima Effect
This Is Why We Jump
Free-Fall
Mongoose
Dead Men Walking
Issue 80, May 2013
Soulcatcher
Tachy Psyche
(R + D) /I = M
The Banquet of the Lords of Night
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled . . .
Issue 79, April 2013
Annex
No Portraits on the Sky
Melt With You
Spar (The Bacon Remix)
Guest of Honor
Finisterra
1. Encantada
2. The Flying Archipelago
3. The Steel Bird
4. The Killing Ground
5. The aeronauts
6. The city of the dead
7. The face in the mirror
8. The professionals
9. Finisterra
Issue 78, March 2013
The Weight of a Blessing
The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution
86, 87, 88, 89
Issue 77, February 2013
Gravity
The Wanderers
Vacant Spaces
Issue 76, January 2013
Driftings
Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon
Effigy Nights
Issue 75, December 2012
Your Final Apocalypse
The Wisdom of Ants
Sweet Subtleties
Issue 74, November 2012
(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky
Aquatica
Everything Must Go
Issue 73, October 2012
A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones
England under the White Witch
The Battle of Candle Arc
Issue 72, September 2012
The Found Girl
Robot
Muo-ka’s Child
Issue 71, August 2012
Mantis Wives
Honey Bear
Fade to White
Issue 70, July 2012
Astrophilia
The Switch
Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers
Issue 69, June 2012
Immersion
If the Mountain Comes
You Were She Who Abode
Issue 68, May 2012
Prayer
Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop
All the Things the Moon Is Not
Issue 67, April 2012
Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes
Draftyhouse
The Womb Factory
Issue 66, March 2012
Sunlight Society
The Bells of Subsidence
From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit
Issue 65, February 2012
And the Hollow Space Inside
A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight
All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions
Issue 64, January 2012
Scattered Along the River of Heaven
What Everyone Remembers
All the Painted Stars
Issue 63, December 2011
Sirius
In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems
Silently and Very Fast (Conclusion)
Part III: The Elephant’s Soul
Thirteen: The Parable of the Good Robot
Fourteen: You Do Not Belong To the Object Inside You
Fifteen: Firstborn
Sixteen: Matryoshka
Seventeen: The Uses of Enchantment
Eighteen: Cities of the Interior
Issue 62, November 2011
A Militant Peace
The Smell of Orange Groves
Silently and Very Fast (Part Two)
Part II: Lady Lovelace’s Objection
Nine: The Particular Wizard
Ten: The Sapphire Dormouse
Eleven: The Bottomless Cauldron
Twelve: An Arranged Marriage
Issue 61, October 2011
Staying Behind
Pony
Silently and Very Fast (Part One)
Part I: The Imitation Game
One: The King of Having No Body
Two: The Fool and the Boat
Three: Two Pails of Milk
Four: Nothing like Soft Blood
Five: The Machine Princess
Six: Like Diamonds
Seven: The Prince of Thoughtful Engines
Eight: Fireflies
Issue 60, September 2011
Pack
Signals in the Deep
Issue 59, August 2011
Conservation of Shadows
The Fish of Lijiang
Issue 58, July 2011
Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika
Frozen Voice
Issue 57, June 2011
Semiramis
Trickster
Issue 56, May 2011
Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know
The Architect of Heaven
Issue 55, April 2011
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees
Matchmaker
Issue 54, March 2011
The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)
Perfect Lies
Issue 53, February 2011
Diving After the Moon
Three Oranges
Issue 52, January 2011
Ghostweight
Tying Knots
Issue 51, December 2010
The Taxidermist’s Other Wife
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
The Children of Main Street
Issue 50, November 2010
On the Banks of the River Lex
Seeing
Issue 49, October 2010
Laying the Ghost
Salvaging Gods
Issue 48, September 2010
The Cull
Paper Cradle
Issue 47, August 2010
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
Messenger
Issue 46, July 2010
Beach Blanket Spaceship
The Association of the Dead
Issue 45, June 2010
Futures in the Memories Market
My Father’s Singularity
Issue 44, May 2010
A Jar of Goodwill
A Sweet Calling
Issue 43, April 2010
Between Two Dragons
January
Issue 42, March 2010
Alone with Gandhari
The History Within Us
Issue 41, February 2010
Torquing Vacuum
The Language of the Whirlwind
Issue 40, January 2010
The Things
All the King’s Monsters
Issue 39, December 2009
Night, in Dark Perfection
The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy
Issue 38, November 2009
The Mermaids Singing Each to Each
Brief Candle
Issue 37, October 2009
Spar
Of Melei, of Ulthar
Issue 36, September 2009
White Charles
Non-Zero Probabilities
Issue 35, August 2009
The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew
Advection
Issue 34, July 2009
Placa del Fuego
On the Lot and In the Air
Issue 33, June 2009
Walking with a Ghost
The Giving Heart
Issue 32, May 2009
From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7
The Devonshire Arms
Issue 31, April 2009
Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story
The Dying World
Issue 30, March 2009
Herding Vegetable Sheep
The Loyalty of Birds
Issue 29, February 2009
The Second Gift Given
The Jisei of Mark VIII
Issue 28, January 2009
Celadon
Teaching Bigfoot to Read
Issue 27, December 2008
A Woman’s Best Friend
Episode 72
The Completely Rechargeable Man
Issue 26, November 2008
Idle Roomer
batch 39 and the deadman’s switch
Issue 25, October 2008
Gift of the Kites
Passwords
Issue 24, September 2008
Worm Within
Can You See Me Now?
Issue 23, August 2008
Blue Ink
Tetris Dooms Itself
Her Mother’s Ghosts
Issue 22, July 2008
When the Gentlemen Go By
The Glory of the World
Issue 21, June 2008
Clockwork Chickadee
The Secret in the House of Smiles
Issue 20, May 2008
A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antartica
Birdwatcher
Issue 19, April 2008
After Moreau
Flight
Issue 18, March 2008
Teeth
The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black
Issue 17, February 2008
Captain’s Lament
The Human Moments
Issue 16, January 2008
The River Boy
Debris Ensuing from a Vortex
Issue 15, December 2007
Curse
The Buried Years
Threads of Red and White
Issue 14, November 2007
Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky
Acid and Stoned Reindeer
Issue 13, October 2007
A Dance Across Embers
Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-Realist Aswang
Issue 12, September 2007
The Ape’s Wife
Lost Soul
Issue 11, August 2007
The Taste of Wheat
The Beacon
Issue 10, July 2007
I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said
Transtexting Pose
Issue 9, June 2007
The Oracle Spoke
Moon Over Yodok
Issue 8, May 2007
There’s No Light Between Floors
Qubit Conflicts
Issue 7, April 2007
The Third Bear
The First Female President
Issue 6, March 2007
Clockmaker’s Requiem
Something in the Mermaid Way
Issue 5, February 2007
Chewing Up the Innocent
Attar of Roses
Issue 4, January 2007
Orm the Beautiful
Automatic
Issue 3, December 2006
Urchins, While Swimming
The Other Amazon
Issue 2, November 2006
The Moby Clitoris of His Beloved
Lydia’s Body
Issue 1, October 2006
A Light in Troy
304, Adolph Hitler Strasse
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