“Sarah’s Laugh” by Melissa A Watkins – 3.8
Lightspeed, May 2026 The story is told by a woman walking a young Canadian scholar through what used to be San Francisco — now called Sarah’s Haven — on his…
“Year of the Tangram” by Ichabod Cassius Kilroy – 3.1
GigaNotoSaurus, May 2026 Structured as a calendar year running from April to April, “Year of the Tangram” follows Kai, an eight-year-old autistic boy navigating the twin pressures of a suffocating…
“The Scent of Memory” by Zhao Haihong, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu – 3.8
Clarkesworld, May 2026 Shijun wakes on a Greyhound bus crossing the Canadian Rockies, an amber bottle of perfume in his bag and a message from his friend Jiayuan flashing on…
“The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods” by Louis Inglis Hall – 3.4
Clarkesworld, May 2026 The story unfolds as a series of monologues addressed by a refrigerator — designated “Buddy” — to a newly activated light switch on its first day of…
“Paper Airplane Poet” by Sheri Singerling: A Scholarly Review – 4.0
Introduction Sheri Singerling's novelette "Paper Airplane Poet," published in Clarkesword, operates as a companion piece to her debut novel Blessed is the Rot (Book 1 of the Bit trilogy), set…
“Paper Airplane Poet” by Sheri Singerling – 4.0
Clarkesworld, May 2026 The story opens on Tillie, a twenty-one-year-old low blood woman standing outside her family’s home in the crowded lower city of Simetria while her father is being…
Grief, Code, and Consent: A Critical Review of Sheri Singerling’s “Wireworks” – 4.6
Introduction Sheri Singerling's short story "Wireworks," published in Clarkesworld (September 2025), represents a significant contribution to the growing body of speculative fiction that interrogates the intersection of artificial intelligence, human…
“Wireworks” by Sheri Singerling – 4.6
Clarkesworld, September 2025 Calista is nearly twenty and paralyzed by grief. A month ago her mother died by suicide — leaping from the cliffs above the beach at Étretat —…
“Conquerors” by Nick Wolven – 3.7
Clarkesworld, May 2026 “Conquerors” unfolds across a single Reunion Day in a far-future Earth where humanity has split into two distinct cultures: Grounders, who tend the planet’s restored ecosystems from…
Temporal Grief and the Archaeology of Love: A Critical Review of Tia Tashiro’s “Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler” – 4.4
Introduction Tia Tashiro's "Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler," published in Clarkesworld Magazine in May 2026, represents a remarkable convergence of speculative rigor and intimate emotional portraiture within the short…
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