GigaNotoSaurus, April 2026 Amelia Hunter runs her family’s magical farm alone, tending cockatrices, phoenixes, strix birds, enchanted beehives, and an animated scarecrow named Poppet. She prefers the pre-dawn dark and…
Apex, February 2026 A group of friends — the unnamed narrator, Agnes, Peter, Lina, and Jin — are vacationing on a remote Japanese island known for its sea turtles, staying…
Apex, February 2026 Sam is a competitive climber who lost their left arm in a factory accident — distracted by a voice note from their partner Abithe while initiating a…
Reactor, February 2026 Note: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault.“Deathcap” is a tense, claustrophobic science fiction short story set aboard a doomed spaceship overrun by a parasitic alien creature.…
Strange Horizons, February 2026 This folk horror short story is narrated by Cass, a young Indigenous and Chicana woman from a small, ancient desert valley community in northern New Mexico.…
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Told in second-person fragments punctuated by vivid descriptions of handcrafted masks, “Coat Check Girl” is a lyrical dark fantasy set inside a supernatural…
Augur Literary Society, #8.3 November 2025 This unsettling epistolary horror story unfolds through a series of recovered dark web messages, framed as evidence submitted to a district attorney investigating a…
Haven Spec Magazine, January 2026 In this quiet, unsettling piece of speculative fiction, Elou Carroll builds a world where every person is accompanied by a “wickend” — a shadow-self pulled…
Reactor, February 2026 Francis is an estate agent in financial freefall, scraping together his salary to service debt while showing rental properties across the United Kingdom. What his colleagues Misha…
Nightmare Magazine, May 2025 Nadia suffers from a severe bedbug infestation in her duplex apartment, but despite months of searching, she cannot find a single specimen to show her landlord…