Lisa Tuttle - To be of use

A woman who has given her life to support her writer husband has a strange experience which changes her life.

Pat Murphy - The eradication of romantic love

A biologist rebounding from another failed romance makes a startling discovery about 'being in love'....

Karen Joy Fowler - Sarah Canary and the Mermaid

A chapter from 'Sarah Canary'. In 19th century America, Sarah Canary, a woman who seems to have been raised in the wild, B.J., a lunatic and Chin, a Chinese railway worker, take shelter in a cabin owned by a naturalist. Much whiskey is drunk and strange things are revealed...

Sherry Coldsmith - Faking it

Amy is in a bad relationship and faking it, as is partner who has copied more than she knows from her brain scan. But it has altered her as well...

Carolyn Ives Gilman - Glass angel

The image of an angel in a church window decides it has seen enough and climbs down to clean up society...

Martha A. Hood - Learning the language

A young girl suddenly loses the ability to understand language...

Gwyneth Jones - Forward echoes

A band of travelers seek the truth of rumours of aliens, journeying into Africa on a steamboat. Lots of literary echoes, powerfully written, but ultimately opaque. ( )