“#HumansOfMars” by Lavie Tidhar – 3.2
Uncanny, May/June 2026 An elderly woman on Mars sits with her family's photographs and narrates them, numbered one through twenty, to her daughter Helena, who has left the solar system…
“Leavetaking” by Tia Tashiro – 3.9
Uncanny July/August 2026 Kate is cursed by her cousin Bo on his deathbed to never stay. They grew up together in a tiny farming town in the inland northwest, population…
“Magical Girl Eater” by Angela Liu – 3.0
Uncanny, May/June 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…
“When Things Went Bad” by Stephen Graham Jones – 3.4
Uncanny, March/April 2026 Braden, a farmer, is in the middle of an ordinary chore — shouldering a bag of seed corn from truck to shed — when an alien vessel…
“What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom” by Angela Liu – 4.0
Uncanny, March/April 2026 A woman and her husband discover a two-foot circular hole in their bathroom wall, emanating cold wind that smells of wet soil and river water. Their argument…
“Welcome to Heroism” by John Wiswell – 2.7
Uncanny, March/April 2026 In a near-future world where superhumans exist alongside ordinary people, a viral app called The Dare quietly rewires the relationship between spectacle, power, and collective action. Every…
“The Woman Who Stole Flowers” by Theodora Goss – 4.0
Uncanny, March/April 2026 The story is narrated by an American academic on sabbatical in Budapest, researching changes in the Hungarian educational system in the post-Soviet era. One spring morning, she…
“Permanent Press” by Sunwoo Jeong – 4.6
Uncanny, March/April 2026 At the heart of the story is a neighborhood laundry-mat run by the stingy Mr. Lee, whose flickering neon sign alternates between two spellings—LA NDRY and L…
“Chimera” by Anjali Sachdeva – 4.3
Uncanny, March/April 2026 Savita, a sixty-five-year-old Indian-American woman, has long dreaded Thanksgiving — not merely for its excess, but for the grief that has shadowed every November since her youngest…
This Story Does Not Exist – 4.3
Summary of This Story Does Not Exist by Kylie Lee Baker ``` Summary of This Story Does Not Exist by Kylie Lee Baker Uncanny #68, January/February 2026 by Kylie Lee…