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    “Bend Like the Palm” by David D. Levine – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 8, 2026
    • Post category:Clarkesworld/Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Clarkesworld, March 2026 Diona, a seventy-three-year-old woman living on a small Pacific island nation called the Republic of Ratak and Ralik, detects an unusually severe typhoon approaching. Using her notebook…

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    “What A Name Does Is Let You Leave” by Meagan Kane – 3.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 4, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Adventitious, February 2026 “What A Name Does Is Let You Leave” is a science fiction short story set aboard a penal station orbiting Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. The narrator…

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    “Unsettled Nature” by Jordan Kurella – 3.6

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 1, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Apex, February 2026 Set on the back of a living jackalope — a giant mythical creature whose fur serves as the ground an entire community calls home — “Unsettled Nature”…

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    “Warren’s Tentacle” by Susan Palwick – 3.3

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 28, 2026
    • Post category:Flash/Lightspeed/Science Fiction
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    Lightspeed, February 2026 Warren wakes from surgery after an accident to find that AI surgical bots have drastically altered his body. Rather than simply repairing his injuries, the bots have…

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    “Sensor Ghosts” by Deborah L. Davitt – 3.5

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 28, 2026
    • Post category:Lightspeed/Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Lightspeed, February 2026 “Sensor Ghosts” is a science fiction story set on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, where two investigators are sent to check on a research vessel that has gone…

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    “Death Echoes Overlapping” by Megan Chee – 2.1

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 28, 2026
    • Post category:Lightspeed/Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Lightspeed, February 2026 The story opens on the necropolis space station of the ancient Tau Andromeda megacivilization, where specially trained keepers harvested “death echoes” — a mysterious energy released at…

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    “What Might Come of Today” by Leah Ning – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 27, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 This science fantasy story follows Fray, an eighteen-year-old living in a post-war city built among ruins, where “Rusters” — magic-wielding enforcers — hunt and destroy…

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    “To Atone for Evil” by Megan Chee – 3.5

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 26, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Science Fiction/Short Story
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 “To Atone for Evil” is a science-fantasy story narrated by an ancient predator — a winged, clawed Hunter from a civilization that once roamed the…

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    “A Night with Hui ʻEnehanaʻIke” by Maʻemaʻeolehua Matsumoto – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 23, 2026
    • Post category:Science Fiction/Short Story/Strange Horizons
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    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…

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    “Its Name is ‘House’” by Zary Fekete – 3.3

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 23, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Science Fiction/Short Story
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    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…

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