Short stories tagged with Ceremony

Listing 3 stories.

In a futuristic, interplanetary empire where most people are clones of each other, a group of three people—a girl who is the Empress's clone, her childhood friend who loves her, and her servant whom she adores—plot treason against the Empress.

Told in 5 parts, the Spring Festival takes us to Jiangnan, Chin. We meet a newly turned 1-year-old, a drone privacy invasion, matchmaking clones, a holographic classmate, and a runaway visit to see the moon.

When a teenager's grandfather offers him an old-fashioned suit to wear to his junior-high graduation in Los Angeles in the 1950s, the boy reluctantly accepts, despite the fact that he is scared of what his classmates will think of him.