E. Catherine Tobler

Resistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying "No." Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power to shake our readers to the core. We are subordinates to a power base that is actively working to solidify its grip on the world. Now is the time to stand up and raise your voice and tell the world that enough is enough TABLE OF CONTENTS: FICTIONJohn Hornor Jacobs - "Glossolalia"A. Merc Rustad - "The Judith Plague"Maurice Broaddus/Nayad Monroe - "What the Mountain Wants"Karin Lowachee - "Sympathizer"Brooke Bolander - "Kindle"Cassandra Khaw - "What We Have Chosen to Love"Fran Wilde - "The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning"Rich Larson - "Scurry"Sarah Pinsker - "Everything Is Closed Today"Sheree Ren e Thomas - "Thirteen Year Long Song"Dee Warrick - "Nobody Lives in the Swamp"Russell Nichols - "Rage Against the Vending Machine"Meg Ellison - "Hey Alexa"Marie Vibbert - "South of the Waffle House"Veronica Brush - "Face"Jo Miles - "Choose Your Truth"Rachael K. Jones - "Oil Under Her Tongue"Eugenia Triantafyllou - "April Teeth"E. Catherine Tobler - "Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix)"Shanna Germain - "Salted Bone and Silent Sea" POETRYAnnie Neugebauer - "To Write"Jeremy Paden - "The Skeleton Archer Speaks"Mary Soon Lee - "If the Fairy Godmother Comes"Lucy A. Snyder - "Permian Basin Blues" Christina Sng - "The Dolls"Joshua Gage - "#greenlivesmatter"Alethea Kontis - "Witch's Star"Bianca Spriggs - "Plot Twist"

Plagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Br one Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace in an increasingly climate-devastated world. The Necessity of Stars brings the alien Tura to Br one's Normandy garden, a place removed from the world's ruin. Within the garden's shadows, Tura will show Br one a way forward, even if she can't remember it.The Necessity of Starsby E. Catherine Tobler is a thoughtful tale of memory loss, politics and climate change.

Step right up Come one, come all, to Jackson's Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade. The steam train may look older than your great-grandmother's' china, but within her metal corridors are destinations you have only ever dreamed. They're real, friends, each and every one--and yours for the taking.Witness Rabi, Vanquisher and Vanisher Extraordinaire, who can make coins and the past vanish before your very eyes. Dare to visit the Beauty and the Beast, our conjoined twins who are terrible and tortured by turns. Sample Beth's marmalade, the sticky sweetness containing the very memory of the day you turned sixteen, and your beloved's lips touched yours once and never again.It's worth the price, traveler. Jackson's Unreal Circus is where you can be whoever or whatever you want. Whether it be a ride on the Ferris wheel, slipping inside a skin that is not your own, or the opportunity to live as you never have before--it is all possible on this, the grandest of tours. The train beckons you--come, come For the first time, E. Catherine Tobler has compiled a collection of her popular circus stories. With nine stories ranging from the first publishing within this universe to a previously unpublished piece, this is your ticket to her magical world. Welcome to The Grand Tour.Contains the following destinations: "Vanishing Act" "Artificial Nocturne" "We, As One, Trailing Embers" "Liminal" "Blow the Moon Out" "Ebb Stung by the Flow" "Lady Marmalade" "Every Season" (original to this collection) "Inland Territory; Stray Italian Greyhound"Also features a special introduction by Hugo-nominated author A.C. Wise

Ancient EgyptDaughters.Mothers.An end to every beginning.Disguised as a boy, Sagira Solimon spent her youth trying to salvage a dead Egypt from the drifting sands, before Englishmen could carry it all away. She found the rings in a cracked bowl, slid them on, and vanished into another world entirely. A world where Egyptian gods still ruled.Broken and haunted, Dalila Folley suffered the loss of her mother and grew up searching for her, knowing Egypt had swallowed her whole. Dalila set herself on a path to unearth Sagira from the Egyptian desert and open the Glass of Anubis once more, no matter that her own daughter was the cost.Eleanor Folley watched her mother vanish into the desert, and though everyone told her Dalila was dead, she refused to believe. Determined to understand the truth, Eleanor pit herself against the dark god Anubis himself, to set the world right once more, but ancient Egypt holds her heart as firmly as Virgil Mallory does, and she won't let either go easily.

Paris 1890 A young boy who would be pharaoh. A young woman dead and also alive. The intersection of the present, past, and future. Eleanor Folley has long sought the truth of her mother's journey across time, to the court of Queen Hatshepsut. Though she believes herself prepared for the truth, she is not. Virgil Mallory has struggled to put the demons of his past to rest. He believes himself on the brink of resolution, but the world has other plans. When the goddess Nephthys enlists their aid in stopping Anubis before he can restore the ancient Egyptian world to its highest glory, Folley and Mallory can do nothing but accept the challenge, in hopes of saving the world they live in-even as they know Folley herself holds the key to Anubis's dark plans. Egypt has hidden countless stories and histories beneath her sand, but none will be more personal for Folley or Mallory than this.

Long ago and far away, a young kelpie commited a crime against her own people. Expelled from Otherworld, the unseelie Pip is sent to live among humans as punishment, her memory of all else fragmented. Welcomed by other unseelie fae, she discovers the fairy realm faces its own peril, vanishing into the mists as time marches on without them. Their enigmatic leader believes Pip may yet save them all, but her fragmented mind tells her he is not to be trusted. As she unravels the truths of past and present, and learns to believe her fractured heart, Pip knows she can reclaim both her true nature and Otherworld, though the cost be humanity itself.

A river at the bottom of the world. A tomb filled with death and peril. A journey through hell itself. At the turning of the year, Yule presents Virgil Mallory with the opportunity to gift Eleanor Folley with a journal kept by her father, a journal that leads them to a mysterious tomb near Hapshetsut's temple in Egypt. It is no ordinary tomb, perhaps the first ever carved in the valley, known to Napoleon and others, but never entirely plundered. Why would such treasures stand untouched? Had anyone breached its darknesses? Together, Folley and Mallory will enter the tomb, though what they find inside will change everything they have believed of Anubis and the strange shapeshifting world they find themselves a part of.

In the vast, black emptiness between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres was melting Buried within the asteroid's core, Ceres Station provides water-ice for an ever-growing system of corporations and explorers, each intent on carving their names into the future of the galaxy. But no one anticipates the secret Ceres harbors. Ice cutter Flit Navarro knows how to haul ice from asteroids and that Scrabble boards only have six Rs. She's never confronted mercenaries intent on claiming Ceres Station for themselves. She's never plummeted to the lowest levels of the station to confront a secret waking from the ice, a monster of ice and instinct. But she's about to.

"Shifting supernatural borderlands inspire awe and ancient gods mirror very human desires in a fear fable that balances complex philosophy with relentless, image-packed action. Tobler creates a fluid, transformative universe that's equal parts exhilaration and terror."-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)Fifteen-year-old Jackson is different from the other children at the foundling hospital. Scales sometimes cover his arms. Tentacles coil just below his skin. Despite this Jackson tries to fit in with the other children. He tries to be normal for Sister Jerome Grace and the priests. But when a woman asks for a boy like him, all that changes. His name is pinned to his jacket and an orphan train whisks him across the country to Macquarie's.At Macquarie's, Jackson finds a home unlike any he could have imagined. The bronze lions outside the doors eat whomever they deem unfit to enter, the hallways and rooms shift and change at will, and Cressida -- the woman who adopted him -- assures him he no longer has to hide what he is. But new freedoms hide dark secrets. There are territories, allegiances, and a kraken in the basement that eats shadows.As Jackson learns more about the new world he's living in and about who he is, he has to decide who he will stand with: Cressida, the woman who gave him a home and a purpose, or Mae, the black-eyed lion tamer with a past as enigmatic as his own. The Kraken Sea is a fast paced adventure full of mystery, Fates, and writhing tentacles just below the surface, and in the middle of it all is a boy searching for himself.

A mummy bound in honey. An auction of archaic wonders. An immortal link to the past. Beneath the streets of Alexandria, Agent Cleo Barclay stumbled into a catacomb that changed her life. Her arms were taken, transfigured, and something remarkable was revealed--something that will stir an ancient life from the ashes of history. A serpentine sarcophagus holds clues to Cleo's past and future. She enlists Eleanor Folley and Virgil Mallory to collect the artifact at auction, to unravel its mysteries and her own. When the sarcophagus falls into the hands of an enigmatic Egyptologist, they find themselves participants in his diabolical pursuits. Drawn to Alexandria by their friend--and the temptations of a newly discovered ring--Folley and Mallory will be challenged as never before.

A bungled museum theft. An ancient Egyptian riddle. The rumor of strange creatures moving beneath the streets of Paris. Eleanor Folley knew she was in for a challenge when she accepted the task of cataloging Mistral's archive of purloined artifacts, but she never expected to discover an Egyptian mystery buried in the heart of Paris. When Anubis and Horus task her with a quest, she cannot refuse the ancient gods, even if it means venturing into the cathedrals of bones that clutter the catacombs of Paris.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our October 2014 issue contains: Original Fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley ("Taxidermist in the Underworld"), Helena Bell ("Lovecraft"), Rahul Kanakia ("Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom, must be willing to live with ghosts ($500 / Berkeley)"), and E. Catherine Tobler ("Pithing Needle").Classic stories by K.J. Parker ("A Rich, Full Week") and Alex Irvine ("Wizard's Six").Non-fiction by Brian Francis Slattery (I Sing the Lady Electric), an interview with Robert Reed, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt’s ancient mysteries and her mother’s inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory, a man with ghosts and monsters of his own, brings evidence of a crime, taking them both on a thrilling adventure that carries them from Paris to Egypt, and from the present to the ancient past. Uncovering the truth exposes a dangerous game of life, death, and uncanny powers!

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our May 2014 issue contains: Original Fiction by Matthew Kressel ("The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye"), Maggie Clark ("A Gift in Time"), and E. Catherine Tobler ("Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds"). Classic stories by Howard Waldrop ("Night of the Cooters") and Andy Duncan ("Beluthahatchie").Non-fiction by Ed Grabianowski ("From Wooden Legs to Carbon Fiber Hands: How Technology Improves Prosthetic Limbs"), an interview with L. E. Modesitt, Jr., an Another Word column by Bud Sparhawk, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

This is how the world ends. This is how the world ends. This is how the world ends. Not in a bang, but in a book. 58 flash fiction stories of the final hours. Passion, pain and horror of the end of days, all in short vignettes. Featuring stories from: Christine Morga, Essel Pratt, Cameron Suey, T. Fox Dunham, Guy Anthony De Marco, Mandy DeGeit, Jessica McHugh, Kristopher Kelly, E. Catherine Tobler, Jamie Lackey, George Cotronis, William R.D. Wood, Lee Clark Zumpe, Lincoln Crisler, Eryk Pruitt, Michael H. Antonio, Kallirroe Agelopoulou, Steve Calvert, Rebecca J. Allred, Darcie Little Badger, Erik B. Scott, Terry M. West, Glenn Rolfe, Josh Strnad, J.A. Martin, Darryl Dawson, DJ Tyrer, Joana E a de Queiroz, Lex T. Lindsay, Arno Hurter, Cameron Shifflet, J.P. Freeman, Marie DesJardin, Dusty Wallace, Doug Murano, Ken MacGregor, Victoria Dalpe, Kelda Crich, Pedro Iniguez, Joey Capora, S.R. Mastrantone, Damir Salkovic, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Jason Sharp, Leslianne Wilder, Jennifer Loring, Bryce Hughes, L.C. Mortimer, Rebecca Barbee, E. E. King, David Turnbull, Richard Thomas, Rose Blackthorn, K.Z. Morano, Adrian Ludens, Kenneth W. Cain, Michael Haynes, Michael Penkas