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    A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library by Chris Willrich – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 2, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Fantasy/Novelette
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2025, Issue #443 This metafictional fantasy story follows an unnamed book thief who infiltrates the legendary Goblin Library in the city of Palmary on a dangerous…

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    Garden of the Bloodpotter by Erin Brown – 4.1

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • 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…

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    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

    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

    The Jealous Wives of the Sea by Alaya Dawn Johnson – 4.5

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:January 26, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Four/Misc./Novelette
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    Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, 2025 In a post-apocalyptic future where rising seas have forced humanity into underwater cities called SeaCities, Oriana—a twenty-three-year-old settlement woman—travels to SeaCity Oranto to…

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    Emilio’s Tale by Bruce McAllister – 3.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:January 25, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Kaleidotrope/Novelette
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    Kaleidotrope, Spring, 2025 Twelve-year-old Emilio lives in a tiny fishing village on the Ligurian coast with his mother, a sex worker who refuses to identify his father. Emilio stands out…

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    Strike First And Then Give Tongue by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:January 25, 2026
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2026 This haunting story unfolds as a confession from Saradiel, a Sri Lankan elephant master and outlaw, to Loku Hamuduruwo, the chief priest who has come…

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    Let the Gods Drown With Us by R.K. Duncan – 2.4

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    • Post published:January 24, 2026
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2026 In a dying coastal settlement called the narrow shore, the Favored—descendants of a people whose green land was drowned by the gods—cling to ritual and…

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    Joiner and Rust by Lavie Tidhar – 4.3

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:January 24, 2026
    • Post category:Four/Novelette/Reactor/Science Fiction
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    Reactor, January 2026 In this poignant science fiction novelette, an aging robot named Rust journeys through rural China to visit an old friend, Joiner, carrying a watermelon as a symbolic…

    Continue ReadingJoiner and Rust by Lavie Tidhar – 4.3

    “The Mixling Mare” by Anneke Schwob – 3.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:January 20, 2026
    • Post category:Kaleidotrope/Novelette
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    Kaleidotrope, January 2026 This epistolary science fantasy novella follows Sastu, an ambitious anatomist working at a research outpost called Janartash near the Inclusion Zone—a region transformed by chaotropaic forces that…

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