These stories are not quite genre. They're more mainstream stories that require an unusual circumstance in order to be told.- In one, a woman guides her Skipship through the void of timeless space using only her dream as a map. But it's not the ship that makes the story. In another, a woman returns from a near-future war eager to start her life as a mother, but the war isn't the story. - In another near-future war an officer fights a battle with insurgents and the armor designed to protect him. But the story isn't' about the battlefield.- A man of science believes he's discovered what makes time tick while another man of science is pushed into taking the biggest risk of his life.- There's a ghost, hiding in the shadows of its living self.- A father tries desperately to reunite with his son after a decade fixated on the construction of the largest building in the world. Another father finds the courage he needs to save his daughter after a visit to his hometown reminds him what it means to be a parent. - A man, a finder with special talents is called upon by an unlikely customer to find something she longs for and ends up finding for her something that has no price tag.- A would-be father, after being granted the second chance of a lifetime, confronts ineffable loss. The grief that consumes him follows him through numerous lifetimes. Stories like these have been told before. But maybe not quite like these.
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