PodCastle, Episode 879, February 2025 The dead of Tawlish Island watch from the shore as the last thirty-seven living inhabitants evacuate their remote, failing community. The freshwater has gone brackish,…
Introduction Anjali Sachdeva's short fiction has consistently demonstrated a preoccupation with the biological, the monstrous, and the tenderly human. Her debut collection All the Names They Used for God (2018)…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 Savita, a sixty-five-year-old Indian-American woman, has long dreaded Thanksgiving — not merely for its excess, but for the grief that has shadowed every November since her youngest…
Reactor, March 2026 Commander Graff of the TGS Visigoth arrives on a feudal planet mid-war, perched with his two-person crew — the sharp-tongued Xun and the steady Brown — atop…
Lightspeed, March 2026 Jay Bender — born Jaime Arvind Chicao, a serial nonviolent offender who has spent his life exploiting loopholes and shedding identities — is sentenced by his judge-counselor…
VANESSA FOGG Fantasy Author Biography, Bibliography & Critical Appraisals I. Biography Origins and Early Life Vanessa Fogg is an American author of short speculative fiction whose work spans fantasy, science…
Academic Literary Review Introduction Vanessa Fogg's novelette "Lotus Dew for the Emperor's Tea" (2026), published in Lightspeed Magazine, represents a mature and ambitious contribution to the growing body of East…
Lightspeed, March 2026 In a mythic First Age, the First Emperor rules an immortal paradise where no winter falls, orchards bloom endlessly, and death is banished from the court. Each…
Lightspeed, March 2026 Espie Droger is a young data engineer working in a subbasement office of a government Procurement and Logistics building, surrounded by moldering cardboard boxes and lit by…
Lightspeed, March 2026 The story is narrated by an unnamed woman living in a homeless encampment beneath an overpass in August 2019 — a university-educated immigrant sharing a row of…