“Crosstalk, Elysium” by Carolyn Zhao – 3.3
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Elysium itself — a Karnarian spaceship — though this revelation unfolds gradually. Elysium orbits a distant fuel station, counting each pass in…
“Bend Like the Palm” by David D. Levine – 3.4
Clarkesworld, March 2026 Diona, a seventy-three-year-old woman living on a small Pacific island nation called the Republic of Ratak and Ralik, detects an unusually severe typhoon approaching. Using her notebook…