“Paper Airplane Poet” by Sheri Singerling – 4.0
Clarkesworld, May 2026 The story opens on Tillie, a twenty-one-year-old low blood woman standing outside her family’s home in the crowded lower city of Simetria while her father is being…
Grief, Code, and Consent: A Critical Review of Sheri Singerling’s “Wireworks” – 4.6
Introduction Sheri Singerling's short story "Wireworks," published in Clarkesworld (September 2025), represents a significant contribution to the growing body of speculative fiction that interrogates the intersection of artificial intelligence, human…
“Wireworks” by Sheri Singerling – 4.6
Clarkesworld, September 2025 Calista is nearly twenty and paralyzed by grief. A month ago her mother died by suicide — leaping from the cliffs above the beach at Étretat —…
“Conquerors” by Nick Wolven – 3.7
Clarkesworld, May 2026 “Conquerors” unfolds across a single Reunion Day in a far-future Earth where humanity has split into two distinct cultures: Grounders, who tend the planet’s restored ecosystems from…
Temporal Grief and the Archaeology of Love: A Critical Review of Tia Tashiro’s “Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler” – 4.4
Introduction Tia Tashiro's "Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler," published in Clarkesworld Magazine in May 2026, represents a remarkable convergence of speculative rigor and intimate emotional portraiture within the short…
“Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler” by Tia Tashiro – 4.4
Clarkesworld, May 2026 Teresa is a Canadian archaeologist working the interior caves of northern Brazil, returning from maternity leave with her infant son Daniel strapped to her chest. At an…
“Aly” by Grace Chan – 3.7
Clarkesworld, May 2026 “Aly” is a four-part novelette by Grace Chan, structured in dated sections spanning 2075 to 2078, set in a climate-controlled Melbourne divided into sealed residential Zones. Its…
“Fernie” by Angela Liu – 3.6
Adventitious, April 2026 “Fernie” is a dual-perspective short story told in alternating voices: a lonely, precocious little girl named Sally, and a sentient ancient fern she befriends during a family…
“Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far” by Eliezra Schaffzin – 3.8
Kaleidotrope, April 2026 The story is structured as a pseudo-scholarly dossier, narrated by an unnamed collective of researchers — scientists or academics of some institutional authority — who are piecing…
“Diamonds” by Grant Stone – 3.8
Kaleidotrope, April 2026 The story is told in second person, a technique that places the reader inside the fractured consciousness of an unnamed intelligence operative — someone who exists, as…