Grist, January 2026 Six-year-old Rami Saleh’s precious multicolored porcelain bird shatters in the school playground, triggering a crisis that mobilizes his entire elementary school. The bird, a cherished gift from…
The Sunday Morning Transport, January 2026 Araminta “Min” Lee runs her family’s doughnut shop while her father recovers from a stroke in the hospital. The shop has been in the…
Tasavvur, January 2026 “Bird and Bread” is a clever speculative fiction story told through three interconnected narratives that ultimately reveal how the end of the world was prevented by an…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 In this evocative second-person narrative, you visit a mysterious curiosity shop run by a witch named Sophia and her vampire brother Sage. Initially suspicious of the witch’s…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 EC Dorgan’s unsettling short story follows an unnamed narrator who has recently escaped city life to start over in the rural prairie. What begins as a fresh…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 This haunting tale unfolds through the voice of Princess Naree, the third daughter of King Herrik, who addresses her unwilling companion Kawam—a woman stolen from her homeland…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 An ornithologist receives an urgent call from Pearson, a worker at the Heinlein Space Center, claiming to have spotted a nesting pair of northern pipers—a species believed…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 In a dying world where wind-tamers have bottled nearly all the winds and left the seas in doldrums and the land in drought, a young woman who…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 Iadene, a hero who can magically grow to giant size, defeats a mechanical dragon with her partner Tuaamala, but victory comes at a devastating cost—the dragon kills…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 Two sisters, the narrator and Marieke, are clearing out their recently deceased mother’s cottage when she begins appearing as a restless ghost. The mother, who died painfully…