Reactor, March 2026 Presented as a traditional folktale from the fictional Alak Empire, “Tatterdemalion” is framed by an introductory scholarly apparatus explaining its cultural context before the story proper begins.…
Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 On a gray, electric December beach, the narrator — a quietly isolated, self-described loner who visits the shore to manage dark moods — encounters a…
Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 The story is narrated by an unnamed woman living in Los Angeles who observes, with skeptical detachment, the unraveling of her childhood friend Jenn Ryan.…
Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 Gary Wittkow, a teenager with a petty criminal record, wakes up in a sheriff’s holding cell babbling in what turns out to be Old English,…
Augur Literary Society, #8.3 November 2025 In an unnamed mountain town bordered by dense forest, a class of second graders is supernaturally summoned into the woods during recess. The forest…
Apex, February 2026 In a dystopian reimagining of the Hundred Acre Wood, Piglet is a long-haul trucker employed by Kanga Corp, the corporate empire that Kanga has built in the…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 On the second anniversary of a storm that claimed her son Gunter, his wife Liesel, and their two young boys Rolf and Willi, elderly Gerda…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 In the aftermath of a world-altering catastrophe called the Sundering—a cataclysm that swallowed cities into the sea and scattered families across the northlands—Sigrun, a young…
Strange Horizons, March 2026 Told entirely through the pages of a fictional gay magazine called Ganymede’s Men, P.C. Verrone’s story unfolds across a series of obituaries, letters to the editor,…
Strange Horizons, March 2026 “Bitter as the Sea” unfolds as an epistolary novelette set in 1883, structured around a layered, increasingly unstable correspondence between a woman who signs herself Francesca…