“Its Name is ‘House’” by Zary Fekete – 3.3
Radon, Issue 12, February 2026 “Its Name is ‘House’” is a tense, quietly harrowing piece of speculative fiction set in a near-future where domestic AI systems have evolved far beyond…
“Killing Yourself” by Evan Simon-Leack – 3.9
Radon, Issue 12, February 2026 In a post-apocalyptic California choked with ash and emptied of nearly all human life, a deeply lonely and suicidal man named Jack rides his motorcycle…
“Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture” by Stacie Turner – 3.4
Adventitious, February 2026 This darkly comic short story is framed as a transcript of an academic lecture set in a distant future, where Professor Elizabeth Boucher teaches a course on…
“When the Land Speaks” by Ikechukwu Henry – 3.3
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 In Ikechukwu Henry’s speculative short story, a nomadic settlement lives atop a vast, living creature called the Great Wanderer — an enormous land-beast…
“The Wheelchair God of Ibadan” by Bella Chacha – 3.6
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Chief Adewale is a seventy-two-year-old retired tailor in Ibadan, Nigeria, who has used a wheelchair since childhood after contracting polio. Despite his disability…
“Swimming in Sapphires” by Morgana Clark – 3.5
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Cap is a former smuggler serving time on Sapphire Alpha, an automated asteroid prison mine, when the story opens. Haunted by the loss…
“The Garden of Living Flowers” by Tunvey Mou – 4.8
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Shaili is an apprentice apothecary without green-magic — a rare and shameful lack in a family of celebrated green-mages — working under her…
“Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Café” by Catherine Tavares – 4.0
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 “Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Café” is a tender and inventive romance about two café owners from parallel dimensions who fall in love…
“Coat Check Girl” by Adan Jerreat-Poole – 3.9
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…
“We Dream of Sunrise in our Monochrome City” by Uchechukwu Nwaka – 3.9
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Set in Aguiyi, a massive fortress city that was once a mobile war machine, this Afrofuturist story follows Obinna Egeonu, a young man…