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Celebrate spooky season with an excerpt from The Time Travelers' Passport , a collection of six short stories by R.F. Kuang, John Scalzi, Peng Shepherd, Kaliane Bradley, Olivie Blake and P. Djèlí Clark

In Making Space , a childless couple take in a mysterious boy in what a synopsis calls "an ominous short story about parenthood, sacrifice and our responsibility to the future."

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Jess is running in the woods near her home when she sees the child. He’s lying in a fetal position in a little copse of trees, hands tucked neatly under his chin, as if he is sleeping. She thinks, at first, that he is lying on a black mat. But then she draws nearer and sees that the ground around him is burned. All the grass turned to ash in a perfect, still

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