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    “This Obituary Has Been Redacted” by P.C. Verrone – 2.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 21, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Short Story/Strange Horizons
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    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,…

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    “Bitter as the Sea” by M.E. Bronstein – 3.6

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 21, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Novelette/Strange Horizons
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    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…

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    “What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom” by Angela Liu – 4.0

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 19, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Four/Short Story/Uncanny
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    Uncanny, March/April 2026 A woman and her husband discover a two-foot circular hole in their bathroom wall, emanating cold wind that smells of wet soil and river water. Their argument…

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    “Welcome to Heroism” by John Wiswell – 2.7

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 18, 2026
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    Uncanny, March/April 2026 In a near-future world where superhumans exist alongside ordinary people, a viral app called The Dare quietly rewires the relationship between spectacle, power, and collective action. Every…

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    “The Woman Who Stole Flowers” by Theodora Goss – 4.0

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 18, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Four/Short Story/Uncanny
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    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…

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    “Permanent Press” by Sunwoo Jeong – 4.6

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 18, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Four/Novelette/Uncanny
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    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…

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    “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” by E.M. Linden – 4.0

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 16, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Four/Misc./Short Story
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    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,…

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    “Terms of Enlightenment” by Patrick Hurley – 3.9

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 15, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Lightspeed/Short Story
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    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…

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    “Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea” by Vanessa Fogg – 4.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 14, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Four/Lightspeed/Novelette
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    Lightspeed, March 2026 In a mythic First Age, the First Emperor rules an immortal paradise where no winter falls, orchards bloom endlessly, and death is banished from the court. Each…

    Continue Reading“Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea” by Vanessa Fogg – 4.4

    “About Face” by Teresa Milbrodt – 3.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 13, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Giganotosaurus/Short Story
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    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…

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