Think of Me Before I Disappear by Raahem Alvi – 3.7
Clarkesworld, February 2026 In a near-future Toronto, Aniqa Khan rushes her girlfriend Maria Shah to the emergency room, only to discover a devastating truth: Maria is an android. For four…
A Sleeper Ship Is Like a Game of Go by Claire Jia-Wen – 3.7
Clarkesworld, February 2026 This nested science fiction narrative follows Mason (Maxexcelson), son of tech CEO Rembrandt Crow, who becomes the navigational consciousness of the Diviner—a luxury sleeper ship carrying wealthy…
Beak by Ian Muneshwar – 3.7
Nightmare Magazine, May 2025 Nadia suffers from a severe bedbug infestation in her duplex apartment, but despite months of searching, she cannot find a single specimen to show her landlord…
Bunny Ears by Kristina Ten – 3.7
Nightmare Magazine, August 2025 Hannah Gessen, a thirteen-year-old only child, arrives at Colden Hills Music Camp feeling out of place and unwanted. The camp is poorly maintained, mosquito-infested, and surprisingly…
A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library by Chris Willrich – 3.4
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…
Garden of the Bloodpotter by Erin Brown – 4.1
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…
Came the Last Night of Sadness by Catherynne M. Valente – 3.6
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…
Babies Don’t Grow In People by Peter Nena – 3.6
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…
The Jealous Wives of the Sea by Alaya Dawn Johnson – 4.5
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…
Emilio’s Tale by Bruce McAllister – 3.8
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…