1. Introduction Natalia Theodoridou's "Her Right Arm" is a compact, deadpan Gothic fable of about 4,300 words. It appears in khōréō, where it is marked "Previously Published," and carries a…
khōréō, March 2026 A man travels by ship toward a new country, having no place in the world he can call home. On his narrow red bed lies the right…
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…
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…
Asimov's, September/October 2026 On New Year's Eve, fifteen-year-old Kee announces at family dinner that she plans to take the Year Walk, an old ritual in which a person circles the…
Asimov's, September/October 2026 Cindy, a matter-of-fact biodiversity newsletter editor living alone in the West Village, receives a cryptic text from an unknown number the night before her life changes: an…
Asimov's, September/October 2026 Mira is heading into the subway on an ordinary morning when a stranger tells her she is going to be murdered today, and that he intends to…
Introduction Naomi Kritzer's Obstetrix (Tordotcom, 2026) arrives as the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author's first novella-length work of adult speculative fiction published as a standalone book, following a career built substantially…
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Mineas Bad grows up a gifted athlete in the City of Saints, a mortal metropolis on the shore of the Sea of Giants inside the Great Ship,…
Asimov's, July/August 2026 A bus full of kidnapped schoolgirls nose-dives into a reservoir in rural Senegal, and the three gunmen at the front find themselves trapped in rising water while…