Short stories tagged with Sign Language

Listing 4 stories.

A show arrives in a small town, promising the performance of a lifetime, in which a small, mute woman will dive into a shallow pool surrounded by flames from a diving board that reaches the sky.

A scientist who specializes in neurolinguistic computing built an ASL translation system to more easily video-call with her deaf sister, who is an avian conservationist. When one of her birds accidentally gets online with the scientist's children, the scientist discovers that her translation software can give a voice to animals too.

A disabled girl who lives in a lunar civilization after the Eugenic War slips away from her class field trip when she spots a secret passageway in the castle they are exploring.

An Orangutan is taken from his home in Malaysia and taught how to speak by a possibly mad professor, then accidentally commits a murder during a botched robbery.