“Leavetaking” by Tia Tashiro – 3.9
Uncanny July/August 2026 Kate is cursed by her cousin Bo on his deathbed to never stay. They grew up together in a tiny farming town in the inland northwest, population…
“The Invisible Bone” by Stephanie Feldman – 3.8
Asimov's, September/October 2026 On New Year's Eve, fifteen-year-old Kee announces at family dinner that she plans to take the Year Walk, an old ritual in which a person circles the…
“Magical Girl Eater” by Angela Liu – 3.0
Uncanny, May/June 2026 Kelly, the story's narrator, is one of four young women — alongside Annie, Mako, and Lin — who begin fighting crime as self-styled Magical Girls, first as…
“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…
“Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far” by Eliezra Schaffzin – 3.8
Kaleidotrope, April 2026 The story is structured as a pseudo-scholarly dossier, narrated by an unnamed collective of researchers — scientists or academics of some institutional authority — who are piecing…
“Diamonds” by Grant Stone – 3.8
Kaleidotrope, April 2026 The story is told in second person, a technique that places the reader inside the fractured consciousness of an unnamed intelligence operative — someone who exists, as…
“I Spin Records Into Gold” by Daria Lavelle – 3.7
Reactor, April 2026 “I Spin Records Into Gold” by Daria Lavelle — Reactor, 2026 Eddie is a engineering student turned reluctant roadie, a man who abandoned a clear-eyed future —…
“How Gods Feed” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor – 3.3
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2026 Naomi is a widow in mourning, living in the prairie village of Somerled among her husband Endride’s people. Her infant son Iovita has recently died…
“Underneath the Underneath” by Audrey Zhou – 3.7
Strange Horizons, April 2026 Mina is a woman from elsewhere—a seafarer’s daughter who came to Dragon Pass Island when her family’s trade ship was wrecked at its port and who…
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