“Permanent Press” by Sunwoo Jeong – 4.6
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…
Grief, Transformation, and the Maternal Body: A Critical Review of Anjali Sachdeva’s “Chimera” – 4.3
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)…
“Chimera” by Anjali Sachdeva – 4.3
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…
“Blade Through the Heart” by Carrie Vaughn – 3.5
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…
“Terms of Enlightenment” by Patrick Hurley – 3.9
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…
Drinking from the Moon: Myth, Memory, and Feminine Agency in Vanessa Fogg’s “Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea” – 4.4
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…
“Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea” by Vanessa Fogg – 4.4
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…
“Espie Droger Dreams of War” by Matthew Kressel – 3.7
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…
“An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War” by JT Petty – 3.6
Lightspeed, March 2026 The story is narrated by an unnamed woman living in a homeless encampment beneath an overpass in August 2019 — a university-educated immigrant sharing a row of…
“About Face” by Teresa Milbrodt – 3.8
GigaNotoSaurus, March 2026 The narrator, a woman in her fifties, opens by establishing the quiet contours of her life with her husband Gerry: the miscarriages that ended their hopes for…
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