"May's Lion" by Ursula K. Le Guin

First appeared in The Little Magazine, reprinted in Dann and Dozois' Magicats II, and collected in Where on Earth from Small Beer Press.

A supposedly true story about an older woman's encounter with a sick mountain lion is transformed into a story, illustrating how facts are transformed through fiction (and perhaps other eyewitness accounts) into something more fitting to our belief systems or perspectives.

Dozois & Dann ebook bundle

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Down to a Sunless Sea by Neil Gaiman (short story online at The Guardian):

"The Thames is a filthy beast: it winds through London like a snake, or a sea serpent. All the rivers flow into it, the Fleet and the Tyburn and the Neckinger, carrying all the filth and scum and waste, the bodies of cats and dogs and the bones of sheep and pigs down into the brown water of the Thames, which carries them east into the estuary and from there into the North Sea and oblivion."

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"Ten titles that inspired Technology Review to publish its own collection of sci-fi stories."

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Junot Diaz wins UK short story prize.