“Piglet Delivers” by Maria Haskins – 3.4
Apex, February 2026 In a dystopian reimagining of the Hundred Acre Wood, Piglet is a long-haul trucker employed by Kanga Corp, the corporate empire that Kanga has built in the…
“Ascension” by P.L. McMillan – 2.3
Apex, February 2026 Sam is a competitive climber who lost their left arm in a factory accident — distracted by a voice note from their partner Abithe while initiating a…
“The Sea Child” by Justin Wesley Ferguson – 3.7
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 On the second anniversary of a storm that claimed her son Gunter, his wife Liesel, and their two young boys Rolf and Willi, elderly Gerda…
“Mother’s Hearth” by W.A. Hamilton – 3.7
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 In the aftermath of a world-altering catastrophe called the Sundering—a cataclysm that swallowed cities into the sea and scattered families across the northlands—Sigrun, a young…
“Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 2” by Jason Sanford – 3.8
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 The story concludes the two-part novella following Lande, a young mountain-touched mechanic working at an Outranger-controlled dreamstone mine deep in the veil — a liminal…
“Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 1” by Jason Sanford – 3.8
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 Lande is a nineteen-year-old woman living in a narrow mountain valley under the occupation of the Outrangers, an industrialized outside power that has built a…
“This Obituary Has Been Redacted” by P.C. Verrone – 2.8
Strange Horizons, March 2026 Told entirely through the pages of a fictional gay magazine called Ganymede’s Men, P.C. Verrone’s story unfolds across a series of obituaries, letters to the editor,…
“Bitter as the Sea” by M.E. Bronstein – 3.6
Strange Horizons, March 2026 “Bitter as the Sea” unfolds as an epistolary novelette set in 1883, structured around a layered, increasingly unstable correspondence between a woman who signs herself Francesca…
“Cutting Corners” by Yoon Ha Lee – 3.5
Reactor, March 2026 In the interstellar war between the nation-states of Hausse and Lyonesse, spacecraft have long been piloted by “deuces” — artificial intelligences so costly to develop and integrate…
“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…