Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our January 2024 issue (#208) contains:* Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("Nothing of Value"), Cécile Cristofari ("Down the Waterfall"), Alexandra Munck ("Binomial Nomenclature and the Mother of Happiness"), Chi Hui ("Stars Don't Dream"), E.N. Auslender ("Just Another Cat in a Box"), Marie Vibbert ("Rail Meat"), C. M. F...

Justin is a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) instructor with blazing speed and almost superhuman strength who leads a neighborhood watch group to help protect the most vulnerable women in their community.Marie is an MMA fighter who lives to love and loves to live, especially on the edge of trouble. Justin, who is by far the best instructor she has ever encountered, has also become the subject of almost all of her raunchy sexual fantasies. Being close to him and smelling him sends these fan...

The Blue Valley series is not your typical love story. It is a journey through one's past . . . maybe even a story resembling someone close to you.It's our story.Tessa Ross has finally decided to give herself a break.A break from her forced smiles. A break from the people she loves. A break to help her heart heal. A break to mend and regain the strength that she once had. A break to find herself again. A break to focus on t...

CyrusThe TruthI know who I am. I’m Cyrus Steel; son, brother, uncle, friend to people I choose to bring into my life.TruthI can fuck up anyone I want.TruthI know the devastation I can and have caused.TruthI can’t change the past, but I choose how to live now.TruthI like to fuck, and I will do a chick better than she’s ever been done. Hard and wild. No more than three hook-ups....

Held captive since birth, I never knew normal.As a child, I took comfort in reading. It was my escape; my only glimpse at what life and love could be like outside the walls that I had been hidden behind.When I was finally freed, the world I entered was something I never could have imagined.Then I meet Harper Abraham, and my heart's very beat . . . changes.But, can I?Contains mature themes.

Coming home from Italy blew, but my brothers had broken THE code. No not some bullshit, 'bro code', but THE 'Bro Code', Forever Steel style.Jase and Cyrus, my sexual mentors, were settling down. I needed to remind them what can happen when the heart overrides the dick and the burden of responsibility that carries. I need to remind them that kitties are to be pet, not possessed.My first day back to the tattoo shop and all th...

TheoReturning from Texas after summer break, which I spent working and training, I expected a temperature change. Hell, I welcomed the chill, but I didn't expect to be completely frozen out by the only chick at Lincoln University who I thought about almost as much as I do hockey.When I saw Riley Park for the first time, the universe shifted. Which sounds completely lame, but I take issues with liars; therefore, I refuse to be one.I, Theo Rivera, was...

From bedroom performances to center stage, Memphis Black’s dreams have come true.Together with his band mates—Finn, River, and Billy B—he takes some time for fun in the sun in Miami while gathering inspiration to finish their first full-length album. Some down time before hitting the road to tour the country, spreading their kind of rock like an STD.Tallia Priest, a preacher’s daughter grew up next door to ...

This book traces the philosophical history of hermeneutics from a primarily Gadamerian perspective and translates those tenets into describing an interpretive research method used in applied disciplines.

It only took one rogue Lego to send me tumbling down the stairs, my phone to take flight, and me to land —hard.Somewhere in between, I lost the towel I was draped in, and my phone—bless its chaotic little heart—managed to FaceTime a random contact. Of course, it was a man who was on the receiving end. A man who now, thanks to gravity and a tragically loose towel, has seen more of my body than anyone since ...

I grew up somewhere that assumes your future will look exactly like your past. Scholarships, discipline, and more late nights than I can count are the reason mine won't. I'm within reach of finishing my PhD and building the kind of life where stability isn't something you hope for. It's something you create. Then Lucy arrives. A little girl who's already seen more dysfunction than any child should, and suddenly, the future I've been working toward carries a lot more weight. Finishing my do...

Twenty-six-year-old Abraham O’Donnell is the CFO of Steel Inc. After working tirelessly for over a year, he takes a week off to enjoy the sand, surf, and bikini-clad women of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. After all, he's earned it.When a brief interlude with a flight attendant in her hotel room goes awry, Abe heads to a rental home with a private beach. While floating —bare— in the pool, he learns the guest house on the property is also...