Introduction Theodora Goss's short story "The Woman Who Stole Flowers," published in Uncanny Magazine Issue 69 (March/April 2026), arrives as a characteristic expression of her mature literary project: the recuperation…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 The story is narrated by an American academic on sabbatical in Budapest, researching changes in the Hungarian educational system in the post-Soviet era. One spring morning, she…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 At the heart of the story is a neighborhood laundry-mat run by the stingy Mr. Lee, whose flickering neon sign alternates between two spellings—LA NDRY and L…
Introduction Anjali Sachdeva's short fiction has consistently demonstrated a preoccupation with the biological, the monstrous, and the tenderly human. Her debut collection All the Names They Used for God (2018)…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 Savita, a sixty-five-year-old Indian-American woman, has long dreaded Thanksgiving — not merely for its excess, but for the grief that has shadowed every November since her youngest…
Reactor, March 2026 Commander Graff of the TGS Visigoth arrives on a feudal planet mid-war, perched with his two-person crew — the sharp-tongued Xun and the steady Brown — atop…
Lightspeed, March 2026 Jay Bender — born Jaime Arvind Chicao, a serial nonviolent offender who has spent his life exploiting loopholes and shedding identities — is sentenced by his judge-counselor…
Academic Literary Review Introduction Vanessa Fogg's novelette "Lotus Dew for the Emperor's Tea" (2026), published in Lightspeed Magazine, represents a mature and ambitious contribution to the growing body of East…
Lightspeed, March 2026 In a mythic First Age, the First Emperor rules an immortal paradise where no winter falls, orchards bloom endlessly, and death is banished from the court. Each…
Lightspeed, March 2026 Espie Droger is a young data engineer working in a subbasement office of a government Procurement and Logistics building, surrounded by moldering cardboard boxes and lit by…