Across millennia, a cave painter and a son confront the shadows of creation and loss. A story from A.J. Ashworth’s new collection “Maybe the Birds.”

Decades before the current debates over gender and sexuality, the late Seattle science-fiction writer Vonda N. McIntyre flipped the script.

If there’s a repeated theme in Schrödinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities) it’s how the practice of science mirrors the life of its practitioners.