Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction (34 page)

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Accessing the Future

First published 2015 by Futurefire.net Publishing

All stories © 2015 the authors

Cover illustration © 2015 Robin E. Kaplan

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Nicolette Barischoff’s “Pirate Songs,” A.C. Buchanan’s “Puppetry,” Joyce Chng’s “The Lessons of the Moon,” David Jón Fuller’s “In Open Air,” Louise Hughes’s “Losing Touch,” Rachael K. Jones’s “Courting the Silent Sun,” Margaret Killjoy’s “Invisible People,” Petra Kuppers’s “Playa Song,” Toby MacNutt’s “Morphic Resonance,” Jack Hollis Marr’s “into the waters i rode down,” Kate O’Connor’s “Better to Have Loved,” Sara Patterson’s “A Sense All its Own,” Sarah Pinsker’s “Pay Attention,” Samantha Rich’s “Screens,” A.F. Sanchez’s “Lyric,” the illustrations by Fabian Alvarado, L.E. Badillo, Jane Baker, Comebab, Pandalion Death, Rachel Keslensky, Vincent Konrad and Tostoini, JoSelle Vanderhooft’s preface, the editors’ introduction and Derek Newman-Stille’s afterword are all published here for the first time, and are © the authors, 2015.

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ISBN-print: 978-0-9573975-4-5

ISBN-electronic: 978-0-9573975-5-2

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Table of Contents

Title

Acknowledgements

Preface, by JoSelle Vanderhooft

Introduction, Kathryn Allan and Djibril al-Ayad

Pirate Songs, Nicolette Barischoff

19.12.2014_A Future Without Pain (illustration), Comebab

Pay Attention, Sarah Pinsker

Invisible People, Margaret Killjoy

Julienne the Technician (illustration), Fabian Alvarado

The Lessons of the Moon, Joyce Chng

Screens, Samantha Rich

To the Pitch (illustration), L.E. Badillo

A Sense All its Own, Sara Patterson

Better to Have Loved, Kate O’Connor

Needs More Coffee (illustration), Rachel Keslensky

Morphic Resonance, Toby MacNutt

Losing Touch, Louise Hughes

futurecoffee (illustration), Vincent Konrad

into the waters i rode down, Jack Hollis Marr

Playa Song, Petra Kuppers

Flux (illustration), Pandalion Death

Puppetry, A.C. Buchanan

Lyric, A.F. Sanchez

High Handed (illustration), Jane Baker

Courting the Silent Sun, Rachael K. Jones

Everyday Future (illustration), Tostoini

In Open Air, David Jón Fuller

Afterword, Derek Newman-Stille

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