“A Night with Hui ʻEnehanaʻIke” by Maʻemaʻeolehua Matsumoto – 3.4
Strange Horizons, February 2026 Nanea, an IT worker at a Hawaiian organization called a panakō, is assigned to overnight on-call duty during a major system upgrade for her team, Hui…
“Its Name is ‘House’” by Zary Fekete – 3.3
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…
“Killing Yourself” by Evan Simon-Leack – 3.9
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…
“Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture” by Stacie Turner – 3.4
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…
“Swimming in Sapphires” by Morgana Clark – 3.5
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Cap is a former smuggler serving time on Sapphire Alpha, an automated asteroid prison mine, when the story opens. Haunted by the loss…
“Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Café” by Catherine Tavares – 4.0
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 “Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Café” is a tender and inventive romance about two café owners from parallel dimensions who fall in love…
“We Dream of Sunrise in our Monochrome City” by Uchechukwu Nwaka – 3.9
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Set in Aguiyi, a massive fortress city that was once a mobile war machine, this Afrofuturist story follows Obinna Egeonu, a young man…
“The Anatomy of Miracles” by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko – 3.4
Escape Pod, February 2026 Across two parallel narratives separated by dimensions and centuries, “The Anatomy of Miracles” weaves together the story of a lonely alien miracle worker and a teenage…
“What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden – 3.1
Adventitious, February 2026 (Originally published in psychopomp, 2024) Hob is a weary exorcism specialist leading a crew tasked with clearing the ghost-life from a freshly terraformed planet — a world…
“Precipice Sun” by Ewen Ma – 3.4
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 “Precipice Sun” is an epistolary science-fantasy novelette told entirely through a series of journal entries addressed to an absent, unnamed recipient named Aohane. The narrator…