Uncanny, March/April 2026 The story is narrated by an American academic on sabbatical in Budapest, researching changes in the Hungarian educational system in the post-Soviet era. One spring morning, she…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 At the heart of the story is a neighborhood laundry-mat run by the stingy Mr. Lee, whose flickering neon sign alternates between two spellings—LA NDRY and L…
A Formal Academic Literary Review I. Introduction E.M. Linden, a speculative fiction writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, has established a recognizable voice at the intersection of literary and genre fiction—a…
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…