“Swimming in Sapphires” by Morgana Clark – 3.5
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Cap is a former smuggler serving time on Sapphire Alpha, an automated asteroid prison mine, when the story opens. Haunted by the loss…
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Cap is a former smuggler serving time on Sapphire Alpha, an automated asteroid prison mine, when the story opens. Haunted by the loss…
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Shaili is an apprentice apothecary without green-magic — a rare and shameful lack in a family of celebrated green-mages — working under her…
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 “Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Café” is a tender and inventive romance about two café owners from parallel dimensions who fall in love…
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Told in second-person fragments punctuated by vivid descriptions of handcrafted masks, “Coat Check Girl” is a lyrical dark fantasy set inside a supernatural…
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 14, February 2026 Set in Aguiyi, a massive fortress city that was once a mobile war machine, this Afrofuturist story follows Obinna Egeonu, a young man…
Escape Pod, February 2026 Across two parallel narratives separated by dimensions and centuries, “The Anatomy of Miracles” weaves together the story of a lonely alien miracle worker and a teenage…
Augur Literary Society, January 2026 This unsettling epistolary horror story unfolds through a series of recovered dark web messages, framed as evidence submitted to a district attorney investigating a missing…
Haven Spec Magazine, January 2026 The narrator of this second-person story is a young woman scraping by as a waitress at a tacky Italian restaurant called Arrivedercheese, enduring daily harassment…
Adventitious, February 2026 (Originally published in psychopomp, 2024) Hob is a weary exorcism specialist leading a crew tasked with clearing the ghost-life from a freshly terraformed planet — a world…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 “Precipice Sun” is an epistolary science-fantasy novelette told entirely through a series of journal entries addressed to an absent, unnamed recipient named Aohane. The narrator…