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, January 2026 This unsettling epistolary horror story unfolds through a series of recovered dark web messages, framed as evidence submitted to a district attorney investigating a missing…
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…
Nightmare Magazine, August 2025 Hannah Gessen, a thirteen-year-old only child, arrives at Colden Hills Music Camp feeling out of place and unwanted. The camp is poorly maintained, mosquito-infested, and surprisingly…
The Sunday Morning Transport, January 2026 “Slake” is a haunting horror story set during an unprecedented two-week rainstorm that has flooded a city to catastrophic levels. The protagonist, Calix, is…
Nightmare Magazine, January 2026 Lane is a thirteen-year-old homeschooled girl living with her mother in rural Florida. Her mother, who was tortured to death as a teenager in a scenario…