Stories from Nature magazine, July 2013 issues

4 stories, all flash fiction length, all online. Where I have a separate post on a story, link on story title goes there. Label "download" links the online copy of the story.

List below is in order of my preference, best first.

1. 4 July: Ken Hinckley's "The ostracons of Europa" (B); download: Human explorer meets a local on Europa!
2. 18 July: Gregory Benford's "Think big" (B); download: Humans aren't the only ones modifying local atmosphere...
3. 25 July: Deborah Walker's "Surrendered human" (B); download: Man discovers another God & realizes his past Sins...
4. 11 July: Shane D Rhinewald's "All that remains" (B); download: After an earth destroying war, a man from a colony world has brought his two children back here on a nostalgia trip...

Related: Stories from Nature magazine.