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Fractured Realities redefines Science Fiction and Fantasy, collecting the best works of an author in his prime into a single volume for the first time ever. In this tome you will find stories of cyberpunk, alien invasion, strange infections, and stories of himanity's very end. In Sounds for Crustaceans, originally published in Fantasy Magazine, the protagonist discovers they are turning into a crab and seeks acceptance and understanding from their partner in a painful story about finding ourselves and treating the world with kindness. In Hard Memory, our protagonist is a detective in search of a hacker who spreads depression throughout the city with electrical emotional manipulation, but finds something much darker in the process. In Mycelium Dreams, the sole survivor of a shuttle's alien fungal infection converses with the thing which killed his crew and tries to understand the motivations of something which has a different understanding of life itself. In Spill-Free and Sparkling, a shipboard cleaning system deals with a dire situation while unaware of the realities facing the crew, all in the name of perfect cleanliness. In A Golem Made of You, our protagonist encounters failure, disgust, and desire as a parasite overtakes his ship, leading him to question his humanity and the unbearable burden of loneliness. In Aspiration Extermination, we view a robot apocalypse through the optics of the mundane and the workers who clear the earth of humanity, despite the tedium of the task. To the Plains of Etherea is the story of an adventurer facing the loss of his companion who has been by his side through all of their struggles. It's a heart-rending tale of perseverance and deepest caring. Interview with Julie Fairweather, Star of Lawnmower Hands, is a story of utmost decadence in the form of a magazine interview, shining a light on the depravity that hides in ignoring the truth. Their Hands Will Carry You Home asks what we would be willing to give for the return of the one we love, and how much sacrifice is too much. The stories in this collection are all interspersed with tiny drabbles - stories themselves in small, 100-word snippets. Inside you will find: Alien Taxidermy and Love Have Four Things in Common Hard Memory Reflection Fancy and Fish Hearts I Grow Sounds for Crustaceans Memory and Steel Hope for Enthos The Psychic Fish Hates You The Legend of Johnny C To the Water Goes My Pain Mycelium Dreams To Fly on Gentle Wings Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves A Mark Deeper Than Flesh Spill-Free and Sparkling His Monstrous Cloaca A Golem Made of You By Moonlight Guided Containment The Devil's in the Details Aspiration Extermination My Ship to the Depths The Locked Prophet The Oathtaker, Servant of Draghtai the Undying A Mind Not My Own Not Good Enough With Hands Unstilled For You I Return To the Plains of Etherea An Itemized List of Charitable Contributions With Dreams in Her Hair Interview with Julie Fairweather, Star of Lawnmower Hands A Drink to Return to the Sea How to Build a Sexbot to Love and Cherish You Their Hands Will Carry You Home And Two Shall Take Its Place To Worlds Within Your Robot Horoscope for the Day of Reclamation Unfleshed Vessel Witness for the Dead Ships Rise over Apple Valley Sweet Words from Acid Lips And much more

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Addison Smith (he/him) is an amorphous being constructed of suspended cold brew and kombucha. His mind is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast formed around a brainstem of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus. He's doing his best, though. His fiction has appeared in dozens of publications including Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction. Addison is a member of the Codex Writers Group and you can find him on Bluesky @addisoncs.bsky.social.

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