“The Garden of Living Flowers” by Tunvey Mou – 4.8
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Shaili is an apprentice apothecary without green-magic — a rare and shameful lack in a family of celebrated green-mages — working under her…
“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…
“Coat Check Girl” by Adan Jerreat-Poole – 3.9
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Told in second-person fragments punctuated by vivid descriptions of handcrafted masks, “Coat Check Girl” is a lyrical dark fantasy set inside a supernatural…
“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…
“Chlorophilia” by Mike Thorn & Miriam Richer – 3.1
Augur Literary Society, January 2026 This unsettling epistolary horror story unfolds through a series of recovered dark web messages, framed as evidence submitted to a district attorney investigating a missing…
“Bootcut” by Allison Pottern – 3.6
Haven Spec Magazine, January 2026 The narrator of this second-person story is a young woman scraping by as a waitress at a tacky Italian restaurant called Arrivedercheese, enduring daily harassment…
“And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must” by Elou Carroll – 2.9
Haven Spec Magazine, January 2026 In this quiet, unsettling piece of speculative fiction, Elou Carroll builds a world where every person is accompanied by a “wickend” — a shadow-self pulled…
“The High Shrines” by Stephen Case – 3.3
Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2026 In a future where benevolent AIs once guided humanity to prosperity before mysteriously vanishing, investigator Galédin searches for missing asteroids that might explain their departure.…
“How Else” by David Ebenbach – 3.6
Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2026 Sharon (Shar) Katz is a chronic second-guesser who always wonders how her life might have turned out differently. When Virtual Alternative Reality (VAR) technology becomes…