“The Invisible Bone” by Stephanie Feldman – 3.8
Asimov's, September/October 2026 On New Year's Eve, fifteen-year-old Kee announces at family dinner that she plans to take the Year Walk, an old ritual in which a person circles the…
“The Great Game” by Lois Metzger – 3.6
Asimov's, September/October 2026 Cindy, a matter-of-fact biodiversity newsletter editor living alone in the West Village, receives a cryptic text from an unknown number the night before her life changes: an…
“The Hydrological Cycle of Souls, or the Assembler of Scattered Creations” by Minister Faust
Asimov's, July/August 2026 A bus full of kidnapped schoolgirls nose-dives into a reservoir in rural Senegal, and the three gunmen at the front find themselves trapped in rising water while…
“Seeking” by Gregory Marlow – 4.0
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Jacob's phone battery dies at 3:12 a.m. while he watches footage of an alien ship hovering above Shanghai, one of thirty-two massive vessels that have settled over…
“Last Train to Gertrude Stein” by Sandra McDonald – 3.7
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Claudine is over a thousand years old, an immortal who dies and is reborn again and again in the marshes along the Seine, waking each time in…
“Gumchew” by Zack Be – 3.5
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Harlan Bah drives his elderly father, Simeon, to a Fed-Corp clinic in a frozen Center City to finally get "gummed" — a childhood-standard neurogel brain implant that…
Brother Adalbert’s Last Shift by Karol Lagodzki – 3.7
In a domed underground city called New Chicago, built after the surface became uninhabitable, Brother Adalbert spends his final day as caretaker of a single ancient oak tree enshrined in…
“Magical Girl Eater” by Angela Liu – 3.0
Uncanny, July/August 2026 Kelly, the story's narrator, is one of four young women — alongside Annie, Mako, and Lin — who begin fighting crime as self-styled Magical Girls, first as…
“Sarah’s Laugh” by Melissa A Watkins – 3.8
Lightspeed, May 2026 The story is told by a woman walking a young Canadian scholar through what used to be San Francisco — now called Sarah’s Haven — on his…
“Year of the Tangram” by Ichabod Cassius Kilroy – 3.1
GigaNotoSaurus, May 2026 Structured as a calendar year running from April to April, “Year of the Tangram” follows Kai, an eight-year-old autistic boy navigating the twin pressures of a suffocating…
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