Adventitious, February 2026 A young girl named Clarita — full name Clara Villalba Prado — walks to the front of her elementary school classroom on hooves, wearing a century-old lace…
Adventitious, February 2026 “What A Name Does Is Let You Leave” is a science fiction short story set aboard a penal station orbiting Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. The narrator…
Ember Journal, 2025 Rila stands at a seaside bluff, methodically hurling marbles into the ocean below. Each one vanishes over the edge with a small clatter on the rocks —…
Adventitious, February 2026 This quietly moving novelette is narrated by Red, a 1972 Mustang who is, in fact, a reincarnated human soul. Red has no clear memory of his previous…
Apex, February 2026 Set on the back of a living jackalope — a giant mythical creature whose fur serves as the ground an entire community calls home — “Unsettled Nature”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…