“Forever and Again” by Leah Cypess – 3.7
Asimov's, September/October 2026 Mira is heading into the subway on an ordinary morning when a stranger tells her she is going to be murdered today, and that he intends to…
“Oliana’s Skull” by Robert Reed – 2.9
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Mineas Bad grows up a gifted athlete in the City of Saints, a mortal metropolis on the shore of the Sea of Giants inside the Great Ship,…
“Roma Delenda Est” by Alan Smale – 3.4
Asimov's, July/August 2026 An aging Archimedes, kidnapped from newly-fallen Syracuse, is dragged into Hannibal's war camp in Italy in 212 BC. Hannibal has no interest in siege engines—his is a…
“Paper Airplane Poet” by Sheri Singerling – 4.0
Clarkesworld, May 2026 The story opens on Tillie, a twenty-one-year-old low blood woman standing outside her family’s home in the crowded lower city of Simetria while her father is being…
“Wireworks” by Sheri Singerling – 4.6
Clarkesworld, September 2025 Calista is nearly twenty and paralyzed by grief. A month ago her mother died by suicide — leaping from the cliffs above the beach at Étretat —…
“Aly” by Grace Chan – 3.7
Clarkesworld, May 2026 “Aly” is a four-part novelette by Grace Chan, structured in dated sections spanning 2075 to 2078, set in a climate-controlled Melbourne divided into sealed residential Zones. Its…
“How Gods Feed” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor – 3.3
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2026 Naomi is a widow in mourning, living in the prairie village of Somerled among her husband Endride’s people. Her infant son Iovita has recently died…
“Skiinfolk” by Jamie McGhee – 4.1
Strange Horizons, April 2026 In a near-future America where Augmented Skiins™ — artificial second skins that transform one’s appearance — are as commonplace as clothing, Ogden is a young Black…
“The Sky Above The Earth Below” by Steve Rasnic Tem – 3.7
Asimov's, May/June 2026 Grace is twenty-nine years old, American-born, and supervising three experimental carbon capture beaches along the Chilean coast for the Civilian Climate Corps. The beaches are surfaced with…
“The Girl Who Stole Life” by Zhou Wen, tr. Xueting C. Ni – 4.0
Asimov's, May/June 2026 The story opens with an unnamed narrator standing in an ominous alley, the scent of decay seeping from behind a door, contemplating a woman whose choices led…
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