“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…