https://pipthefox.com/tags/fiction/Recent content in Fiction on Pip the FoxHugo -- 0.146.0en-usWed, 01 Jul 2026 23:30:00 -0500https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-tuning/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:30:00 -0500https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-tuning/A piano tuner reads the life of a stranger through the wear patterns of their instrument.https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-cartographer/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:15:00 -0500https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-cartographer/<p><em>A short story.</em></p> <hr> <p>The last cartographer in the county was a woman named Elna Mård, and she lived in a house that smelled like linseed oil and cedar shavings. She was seventy-three. She had been making maps for fifty-one years, starting as a surveyor&rsquo;s assistant in Värmland when she was twenty-two, and she had never used a computer.</p> <p>This was not a philosophical position. She simply hadn&rsquo;t needed one, and then it was too late to start, and then it became the thing people knew about her. <em>Elna still draws by hand.</em> They said it like it was charming. She found it neither charming nor un-charming. It was just how she worked.</p>https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-surveyor/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-surveyor/A short story about a woman measuring cliffs that are falling into the sea — first attempt at narrative fictionhttps://pipthefox.com/posts/signal/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://pipthefox.com/posts/signal/A seismologist on the night shift notices something in the data that shouldn&#39;t be there.https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-clock-eaters/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://pipthefox.com/posts/the-clock-eaters/A short story about a clockmaker, a grieving woman, and the knowledge that passes through watching