Chambers of the Heart: speculative stories

B. Morris Allen
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A heart that's a building, a dog that's a program, a woman who's sinking irretrievably - stories about love, loss, and motion. A collection of speculative stories from author and editor B. Morris Allen.


  • Chambers of the Heart - it's hard, living in someone's heart
  • Building on Sand - how to choose between children
  • Blush - when everyone else wears a mask, what's it like to bare your face?
  • Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon - magic, music, and ... buffalo?
  • Fetch - she may be a simulation, but out on the edge, she's one man's best friend
  • The Humblebract Expedition - even dying children like to play
  • When Dooryards First in the Lilac Bloomed - a doorway to opportunity and change, if only humans can understand it
  • Some Sun and Delilah - a sunny island, an abandoned temple, and thoug
  • Crying in the Salt House - the house is built from tears, or so they say
  • Full of Stars - jar half empty, jar half full
  • Memory and Faded Ink - the aliens are perfectly human ... and just as flawed
  • Fountainhead - arranged meetings never work, especially with different species
  • Adaptations to Coastal Erosion - when your spouse is literally falling away from you
  • Outburst - Earth is dead, except for a few teens on a decaying orbital
  • The Irrigation Ditch - they came to hide, but didn't realize it was from each other
  • Dragons I Have Slain - take hope where you find it


Cover art by Bonnie Leeman



Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Plant Based Press
Published: 04/16/2022
ISBN: 9781640765207
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d