You know, being a babysitter can be rough. There’s inevitable tantrums, endless complaints, way too many responsibilities, and (sometimes) those bratty kids really do seem like legitimate monsters.

Especially when you’re a babysitter for possessed dolls.

Blink Instead of Crying

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Quiddity Lit Magazine

You know how they say plants never judge you? Well, try telling that to this poor gardener. From sprouts to blooms, follow along with the unreserved thoughts of a batch of spunky, sweet, silly chrysanthemums from the perspective of an ever-present psychic gardener.

(By the time you finish, you’ll also probably know how to grow a mum garden of your own.)

**This story is currently being reviewed for an award, and so can’t be legally published online just yet. Sorry! 🙁

Graveyard watch. That old job where you go floating out into the middle of space to check the ejected coffins, and make sure the idiots in disposal didn’t eject another living person. Bring in anyone who’s not dead yet and keep an eye out for Flesh-Eaters. It’s a simple-enough job for Mariia, even if it doesn’t earn her much respect.

But it gets a bit more complicated when she makes an adorable, hungry, strangely-blobby new friend.

**This story is currently being reviewed for an award, and so can’t be legally published online just yet. Sorry! 🙁

Nestor is a quadriplegic young man who can’t remember the last time he was able to move on his own. But now he can, thanks to the new Starwalker body he’s just won – a robotic body living on Mars that he can transfer his mind into. But as tensions rise between Nestor and his family about how much time he’s spending on Mars, Nestor must come to decide whether he truly belongs on Earth among humanity or on Mars among the Starwalkers.

The One Who Goes Home