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    “Chlorophilia” by Mike Thorn & Miriam Richer – 3.1

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 19, 2026
    • Post category:Horror/Misc./Short Story
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    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…

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    “Bootcut” by Allison Pottern – 3.6

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    • Post published:February 19, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Misc./Short Story
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    Haven Spec Magazine, January 2026 The narrator of this second-person story is a young woman scraping by as a waitress at a tacky Italian restaurant called Arrivedercheese, enduring daily harassment…

    Continue Reading“Bootcut” by Allison Pottern – 3.6

    “What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden – 3.1

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    • Post published:February 19, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Novella/Science Fiction
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    Adventitious, February 2026 (Originally published in psychopomp, 2024) Hob is a weary exorcism specialist leading a crew tasked with clearing the ghost-life from a freshly terraformed planet — a world…

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    “And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must” by Elou Carroll – 2.9

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    • Post published:February 17, 2026
    • Post category:Horror/Misc./Short Story
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    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…

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    Conversations with You by Teresa Milbrodt – 2.6

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    • Post published:February 7, 2026
    • Post category:Flash/Misc./Science Fiction
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    Baffling Magazine, Issue 5 April 2025 This poignant short story explores grief, memory, and the different ways people preserve connections to those they’ve lost. The narrator prepares eggplant parmesan using…

    Continue ReadingConversations with You by Teresa Milbrodt – 2.6

    Garden of the Bloodpotter by Erin Brown – 4.1

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    • Post published:February 2, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Four/Misc./Novelette
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    Psychopomp Magazine, September, 2025 Issue 14 In a war-torn kingdom ruled by a relentless king, War Sorcerers known as Bloodpotters resurrect elite fighters called HighSoldiers by creating magical gardens from…

    Continue ReadingGarden of the Bloodpotter by Erin Brown – 4.1

    Came the Last Night of Sadness by Catherynne M. Valente – 3.6

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    • Post published:February 1, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Novelette/Science Fiction
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    The End of the World asWe Know It This post-apocalyptic novelette follows Fern Ramsey, a mysterious seventeen-year-old wandering alone through an America devastated by plague. Most of humanity has died…

    Continue ReadingCame the Last Night of Sadness by Catherynne M. Valente – 3.6

    Handsomest Gentlest by M.R. Robinson – 4.6

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    • Post published:January 27, 2026
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    Haven Spec Magazine, March 2025 This tender ghost story follows Jackie, an eleven-year-old boy who has recently died and finds himself alone in the woods. Frightened and grieving his own…

    Continue ReadingHandsomest Gentlest by M.R. Robinson – 4.6

    Firestarter by Dan Peacock – 3.5

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    • Post published:January 27, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Phano, May 2025 “Firestarter” is a poignant science fiction story about grief, guilt, and redemption set in Earth’s orbit. The narrator, Nick, works as a “firestarter”—a satellite technician whose job…

    Continue ReadingFirestarter by Dan Peacock – 3.5

    Babies Don’t Grow In People by Peter Nena – 3.6

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    • Post published:January 27, 2026
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    Will This Be A Problem, Issue 2 In a dystopian future society called Jupiter, Acacia Sidai falls mysteriously ill with severe vomiting and fatigue. Medical androids, equipped with advanced bio-imaging…

    Continue ReadingBabies Don’t Grow In People by Peter Nena – 3.6
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