“Six Sides of a Fairy Tale” by Audrey Zhou – 3.5
Lightspeed, February 2026 “Six Sides of a Fairy Tale” is a second-person fantasy story told from six distinct perspectives, each labeled like the facets of a geometric shape. The central…
“Sensor Ghosts” by Deborah L. Davitt – 3.5
Lightspeed, February 2026 “Sensor Ghosts” is a science fiction story set on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, where two investigators are sent to check on a research vessel that has gone…
“Dream Destinations (From the Lost Traveler’s Tour Guide)” by Alexander Weinstein – 2.9
Lightspeed, February 2026 “Dream Destinations” is a work of speculative fiction framed as a travel guide to impossible, surreal locations on a mysterious eighth continent that has suddenly appeared on…
“Death Echoes Overlapping” by Megan Chee – 2.1
Lightspeed, February 2026 The story opens on the necropolis space station of the ancient Tau Andromeda megacivilization, where specially trained keepers harvested “death echoes” — a mysterious energy released at…
“What Might Come of Today” by Leah Ning – 3.4
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 This science fantasy story follows Fray, an eighteen-year-old living in a post-war city built among ruins, where “Rusters” — magic-wielding enforcers — hunt and destroy…
“To Atone for Evil” by Megan Chee – 3.5
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 “To Atone for Evil” is a science-fantasy story narrated by an ancient predator — a winged, clawed Hunter from a civilization that once roamed the…
“Hollow in the Hope” by Aimee Ogden – 3.7
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 This science-fantasy novelette weaves together two parallel narratives across vastly different eras, united by a single devastating premise: parents who sacrifice their children to appease…
“Bloom Where You Are Planted”: Bodily Sovereignty, Social Hierarchy, and Queer Resistance in Melanie Mulrooney’s Science-Fantasy Fiction
Academic Review Mulrooney, Melanie. "Bloom Where You Are Planted." Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #451, Science-Fantasy Month 8, 19 February 2026. I. Introduction Melanie Mulrooney's short story "Bloom Where You Are…
“Bloom Where You Are Planted” by Melanie Mulrooney – 4.1
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 In a speculative society where women grow literal flowers on their bodies — a phenomenon overseen by a bureaucratic “Scent Authority” — social status is…
“Deathcap” by Lara Elena Donnelly – 3.3
Reactor, February 2026 Note: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault.“Deathcap” is a tense, claustrophobic science fiction short story set aboard a doomed spaceship overrun by a parasitic alien creature.…
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