Clarkesworld, March 2026 On a planet of crystalline beings — sentient, ancient, and vast — a narrator known as Unnecessary Expender Of Energy To Satisfy Curiosity raises its child, Awakened…
Clarkesworld, March 2026 “Those Who Left History” is a multi-voiced speculative fiction told through interleaved diary entries, journalistic reportage, and future historiography. Its central conceit is “spatial closure” technology —…
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Camilla, a subcolony of an alien collective intelligence that has dedicated itself to learning human languages and communication. Camilla takes pride in…
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The narrator is the ghost of an astronaut — later revealed to be Captain Rogers — who died of a stroke before the Mars mission launched but…
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Elysium itself — a Karnarian spaceship — though this revelation unfolds gradually. Elysium orbits a distant fuel station, counting each pass in…
Clarkesworld, March 2026 Diona, a seventy-three-year-old woman living on a small Pacific island nation called the Republic of Ratak and Ralik, detects an unusually severe typhoon approaching. Using her notebook…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 Bishop, a seasoned book collector, and Bright, a sixteen-year-old orphan archivist-in-training, are sent on a retrieval mission into the stronghold of the Falmians — mechanical…
Adventitious, February 2026 A young girl named Clarita — full name Clara Villalba Prado — walks to the front of her elementary school classroom on hooves, wearing a century-old lace…
Adventitious, February 2026 “What A Name Does Is Let You Leave” is a science fiction short story set aboard a penal station orbiting Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. The narrator…
Ember Journal, 2025 Rila stands at a seaside bluff, methodically hurling marbles into the ocean below. Each one vanishes over the edge with a small clatter on the rocks —…