“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…
“House of Honeyed Soil” by Natalie Wollenweber – 3.8
GigaNotoSaurus, April 2026 Amelia Hunter runs her family’s magical farm alone, tending cockatrices, phoenixes, strix birds, enchanted beehives, and an animated scarecrow named Poppet. She prefers the pre-dawn dark and…
“Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 2]” by Ashok K. Banker – 3.8
Lightspeed, April 2026 Part 2 opens with Six-Gun returning to New Providence to find the town has turned against her. Beauchamp has spent the day working his influence, the sheriff…
“Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 1]” by Ashok K. Banker – 3.5
Lightspeed, April 2026 The narrator — known by the handle Six-Gun Vixen — is a deeply compelling outsider figure: a brown-skinned, six-armed, wolf-eared woman of South Asian origin, shadow-cursed and…
“Empathetic Psychosis” by Justin C. Key – 3.8
Lightspeed, April 2026 Dr. Jason Holloway — psychiatrist, three-time divorcee, recovering alcoholic, and self-diagnosed schizophrenic — arrives in Los Angeles to take on the role of Clinical Director at Margins…
“D0G” by Tania Fordwalker – 4.0
Clarkesworld, April 2026 In a post-apocalyptic near future, a woman known as Billie survives alone on a small island in a river near Moosehead Lake, Maine, somewhere upstream from a…
“Tatterdemalion” by Michael Cisco – 3.5
Reactor, March 2026 Presented as a traditional folktale from the fictional Alak Empire, “Tatterdemalion” is framed by an introductory scholarly apparatus explaining its cultural context before the story proper begins.…
“Mother’s Hearth” by W.A. Hamilton – 3.7
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 In the aftermath of a world-altering catastrophe called the Sundering—a cataclysm that swallowed cities into the sea and scattered families across the northlands—Sigrun, a young…
“Bitter as the Sea” by M.E. Bronstein – 3.6
Strange Horizons, March 2026 “Bitter as the Sea” unfolds as an epistolary novelette set in 1883, structured around a layered, increasingly unstable correspondence between a woman who signs herself Francesca…
“Cutting Corners” by Yoon Ha Lee – 3.5
Reactor, March 2026 In the interstellar war between the nation-states of Hausse and Lyonesse, spacecraft have long been piloted by “deuces” — artificial intelligences so costly to develop and integrate…
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