Chambers of the Heart: speculative stories

Chambers of the Heart – it's hard, living in someone's heart

Building on Sand – how to choose between children

Blush – when everyone else wears a mask, what's it like to bare your face?

Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon – magic, music, and ... buffalo?

Fetch – she may be a simulation, but out on the edge, she’s one man’s best friend

The Humblebract Expedition – even dying children like to play

When Dooryards First in the Lilac Bloomed – a doorway to opportunity and change, if only humans can understand it

Some Sun and Delilah – a sunny island, an abandoned temple, and thoug

Crying in the Salt House – the house is built from tears, or so they say

Full of Stars – jar half empty, jar half full

Memory and Faded Ink – the aliens are perfectly human ... and just as flawed

Fountainhead – arranged meetings never work, especially with different species

Adaptations to Coastal Erosion – when your spouse is literally falling away from you

Outburst – Earth is dead, except for a few teens on a decaying orbital

The Irrigation Ditch – they came to hide, but didn’t realize it was from each other

Dragons I Have Slain – take hope where you find it

Cover art by Bonnie Leeman