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Issues

Dec. 2025 (Issue 187)

We have original science fiction by Nancy Kress (“Reality Check”) and Oyedotun Damilola Muees (“The Hub Living Among the Stars”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Us, in Another Universe” from A.C. Wise and “The Space Between Us” by P.A. Cornell. Plus, we have original fantasy by Jonathan Olfert (“Crickets in Lost Light”) and David Marino (“Memories of the MindMine”). We also have a flash story (“You Always Told Her You’d Give Her the World”) from Aimee Ogden, and another (“HagioClass”) from José Pablo Iriarte. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team. It’s another great issue, so be sure to check it out.

Nov. 2025 (Issue 186)

We have original science fiction by Gene Doucette (“Elegy for Zephyr One”) and Joel W.D. Buxton (“Operation: Grapevine”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “How to Setup Your Morning Robot” from Angela Liu and “Visible Damage” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Plus, we have original fantasy by Lisa M. Bradley (“In the Zone”) and Tina S. Zhu (“How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl”). We also have a flash story (“Beneath the Umdlebe Tree (Or: A Vegetable Love Story)”) from Modupeoluwa Shelle, and another (“The Cold Burning Light of Her”) from Sam W. Pisciotta. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team. Our ebook readers will also enjoy a book excerpt. It’s another great issue, so be sure to check it out.

Oct. 2025 (Issue 185)

We have original science fiction by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (“O Mechfighter, O Starsinger”) and Megan Chee (“Everyone Hates the Auditor”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Porniest Porn in Porntown” from Stephen Graham Joes and “Thaw” by An Owomoyela. Plus, we have original fantasy by Micah Dean Hicks (“Dirge and Gleam”) and A.L. Goldfuss (“Drosera regina”). We also have a flash story (“At the Bottom of the Bonfire”) from Martin Cahill, and another (“Dating Fortune”) from Sean McMullen. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Sep. 2025 (Issue 184)

We have original science fiction by C.Z. Tacks (“The Girlfriend Experience”) and Kel Coleman (“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Place I Came To” from Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko and “City of One” by Stephen S. Power. Plus, we have original fantasy by Isabel J. Kim (“Human Voices”) and Cadwell Turnbull (“Apeiron”). We also have a flash story (“Beginning Before and After The End”) from Jake Stein, and another (“On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting”) from Bogi Takács. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Aug. 2025 (Issue 183)

We have original science fiction by Adam-Troy Castro (“Feast of Famine”) and V.M. Ayala (“To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis” from David Anaxagoras and “The Dream Tourists” by Sarah Langan. Plus, we have original fantasy by Fatima Taqvi (“It Might Be He Returns”) and Christopher Rowe (“Savannah and the Apprentice”). We also have a flash story (“Dad Went Out to Get the Milk”) from Osahon Ize-Iyamu, and another (“Anti-Capitalism vs. the Man of Flowers”) from Naomi Kanakia. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

July 2025 (Issue 182)

We have original science fiction by Meghan McCarron (“Lord of Mars”) and Naomi Kanakia (“Domestic Disputes”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “How to Win Against the Robots” from Katherine Crighton and “Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide” by Leah Cypess. Plus, we have original fantasy by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (“A Dish Best Served Cold, Or, An Excerpt From the Cookbook of the Gods”) and Paul Crenshaw (“You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb”). We also have a flash story (“What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City?”) from sadoeuphemist, and another (“Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective”) from Spencer Nitkey. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

June 2025 (Issue 181)

We have original science fiction by Peter Watts (“The Twenty-One Second God”) and Marissa Lingen (“All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: (“Dimensional Living Complex Malfunction Causes Body Horror and Inspires Potential Reform”) from Reyes Ramirez and (“See Now the Misfortune of the Thinking Tenax” by Lowry Poletti.) Plus, we have original fantasy by Vanessa Fogg (“When the Faerie King Toured the Human Realm”) and Carrie Vaughn (“A Week at the Raven Feather Salon”). We also have a flash story (“Eyes Grown Thick on the World”) from Will McMahon, and another (“My Mother, the Supervillain”) from Benjamin Blattberg. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

May 2025 (Issue 180)

We’re serving up original science fiction by Gene Doucette (“Rthing It Up: An Oral History”) and P.A. Cornell (“Through the Machine”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Temporal Displacement of the Graves” from Russell Nichols and “The Meaning We Seek” by Nancy Kress. Plus, we have original fantasy by Martin Cahill (“The Price of Manners”) and Jonathan Olfert (“Ninnagan Says Remember”). We also have a flash story (“Shadows on the Pavement”) from R. P. Sand, and another (“Where Are They Now?”) from Meg Elison. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Apr. 2025 (Issue 179)

We’re serializing an original SF novelette by Sarah Langan: “Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep?” We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Meditations from the Event Horizon” from Deborah L. Davitt and “TALK: ‘The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles’” by Dominica Phetteplace. Plus, we have original fantasy by Oyedotun Damilola Muees (“The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy with Tribal Marks on his Face”) and Jon Lasser (“The Other River”). We also have a flash story (“To Navigate the Night”) from Rich Larson, and another (“The Price of Miracles”) from Nigel Faustino. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Mar. 2025 (Issue 178)

We have original science fiction by Cadwell Turnbull (“Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library”) and Adam-Troy Castro (“Message In a Babel”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun” from Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and “Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition” by Rachael K. Jones. Plus, we have original fantasy by Anya Ow (“Memories of Temperance”) and Sunwoo Jeong (“The Lexicon of Lethe”). We also have a flash story (“Pure of Heart”) from Jake Kerr, and another (“The Shift”) from Nina Kiriki Hoffman. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

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