“About Face” by Teresa Milbrodt – 3.8
GigaNotoSaurus, March 2026 The narrator, a woman in her fifties, opens by establishing the quiet contours of her life with her husband Gerry: the miscarriages that ended their hopes for…
“Scion” by Thomas Ha – 3.4
Clarkesworld, March 2026 On the storm-wracked moon of Rai, an unnamed young lord navigates a vast, labyrinthine manor whose shifting concentric rooms reflect the deteriorating mind of the Levinlord —…
“You Are Invited to Our SPRING CELEBRATION” by Thoraiya Dyer – 3.3
Clarkesworld, March 2026 On a planet of crystalline beings — sentient, ancient, and vast — a narrator known as Unnecessary Expender Of Energy To Satisfy Curiosity raises its child, Awakened…
“Those Who Left History” by Wanxiang Fengnian, trans. Stella Jiayue Zhu – 2.6
Clarkesworld, March 2026 “Those Who Left History” is a multi-voiced speculative fiction told through interleaved diary entries, journalistic reportage, and future historiography. Its central conceit is “spatial closure” technology —…
“Person, Place, Thing” by Marissa Lingen – 3.5
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Camilla, a subcolony of an alien collective intelligence that has dedicated itself to learning human languages and communication. Camilla takes pride in…
“First Human Ghost on Mars” by R.L. Meza – 2.6
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The narrator is the ghost of an astronaut — later revealed to be Captain Rogers — who died of a stroke before the Mars mission launched but…
“Crosstalk, Elysium” by Carolyn Zhao – 3.3
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Elysium itself — a Karnarian spaceship — though this revelation unfolds gradually. Elysium orbits a distant fuel station, counting each pass in…
“Bend Like the Palm” by David D. Levine – 3.4
Clarkesworld, March 2026 Diona, a seventy-three-year-old woman living on a small Pacific island nation called the Republic of Ratak and Ralik, detects an unusually severe typhoon approaching. Using her notebook…
“The Book Collectors” by J.W. Halicks – 3.2
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 Bishop, a seasoned book collector, and Bright, a sixteen-year-old orphan archivist-in-training, are sent on a retrieval mission into the stronghold of the Falmians — mechanical…
“Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix” by Abigail Guerrero – 3.3
Adventitious, February 2026 A young girl named Clarita — full name Clara Villalba Prado — walks to the front of her elementary school classroom on hooves, wearing a century-old lace…
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