A Tor.com Original

Of Roses and Kings
In this dark, skewed take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is now the Red Queen, and...
Two Truths and a Lie
Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered th...
The Weight of Memories
From the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End comes a story about unb...
Little Free Library
From the award-wining fantasy author of the Dead Rivers Trilogy, comes Naomi Kritzer’s enchanti...
The Hell of It
Some heroes don’t carry blades or go to war. Some heroes are fathers desperately trying not to...
The Red Mother
The Red Mother is a fantasy novella by Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Auga, a wa...
Exile's End
Carolyn Ives Gilman’s Exile’s End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact...
We're Here, We're Here
Critically acclaimed sci-fi author K.M. Szpara probes the ethics of genetic engineering in this...
The Cartography of Sudden Death
Time travel doesn’t actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex…. When Ythna i...
#Selfcare
In a near-future San Francisco where the gig economy has made work more precarious than ever, E...
Old Media
Annalee Newitz’s Old Media: A Tor.com Original, tells the story of a freed slave and a robot pr...
The Cockroach Hat: A Literary Love Story
When Sam Gregory wakes up to find he has turned into a big cockroach, he is understandably dism...
Masquerade Season
From Nigerian author ‘Pemi Aguda comes “Masquerade Season,” a Tor.com Original short story...
Bugs in the Arroyo
The bugs eat metal and leave people and animals alone—unless you crush one, and then they’ll sw...
Серебряные изнанки
У каждого облака есть серебряная изнанка. Иногда в буквальном смысле слова. Рассказ о сереб...