“Bloom Where You Are Planted” by Melanie Mulrooney – 4.1
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 In a speculative society where women grow literal flowers on their bodies — a phenomenon overseen by a bureaucratic “Scent Authority” — social status is…
“Deathcap” by Lara Elena Donnelly – 3.3
Reactor, February 2026 Note: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault.“Deathcap” is a tense, claustrophobic science fiction short story set aboard a doomed spaceship overrun by a parasitic alien creature.…
“The River Speaks My Name” by Ocoxōchitl la Coyota – 3.7
Strange Horizons, February 2026 This folk horror short story is narrated by Cass, a young Indigenous and Chicana woman from a small, ancient desert valley community in northern New Mexico.…
“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…
“When the Land Speaks” by Ikechukwu Henry – 3.3
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 In Ikechukwu Henry’s speculative short story, a nomadic settlement lives atop a vast, living creature called the Great Wanderer — an enormous land-beast…
“The Wheelchair God of Ibadan” by Bella Chacha – 3.6
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Chief Adewale is a seventy-two-year-old retired tailor in Ibadan, Nigeria, who has used a wheelchair since childhood after contracting polio. Despite his disability…
“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…
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