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Issues

Dec. 2024 (Issue 175)

We have original science fiction by Pat Murphy (“A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts”) and Gene Doucette (“Get Hyped!”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Inside the House of Wisdom” from Tamara Masri and “What We Plan To Do To You” by Adam-Troy Castro. Plus, we have original fantasy by Melissa A Watkins (“Ol’ Big Head”) and Cressida Blake Roe (“The Godhood of Ima Day”). We also have a flash story (“Sleeping Beauty and the Restless Realm”) from Lincoln Michel, and another (“Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff and a Bunch More That Fell from the Sky”) from David Anaxagoras. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Nov. 2024 (Issue 174)

We have an original science fiction novella by Ashok K. Banker (“Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa,” which we’ll be serializing over the course of two weeks. We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness Offers Three Provocative Verbs, Separated by Commas” from Aimee Ogden and “Ancestor Code Error” by Ai Jiang. Plus, we have original fantasy by Hammond Diehl (“We Will Bring Siege to the Bastion of Sin That Cries Out in Your Prayer”) and P H Lee (“The Ones Who Come at Last”). We also have a flash story (“Babywings”) from Isabel Cañas, and another (“The Last Word”) from Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Oct. 2024 (Issue 173)

We have original science fiction by Ai Jiang (“Ashes Like the Leaves of Tea, Lava Like Honey”) and Russell Nichols (“Autonomy of a Murder”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Life You’ve Given Me, Rusty” from P.A. Cornell and “Hot Hearts” by Lyndsie Manusos. Plus, we have original fantasy by Kenneth Schneyer (“Winding Sheets”) and writing duo Philip Gelatt & JT Petty (“Sully the God”). We also have a flash story (“Zekelo’s Barterhouse & Emporium”) from Patrick Hurley, and another (“Caesura”) from Ashlee Lhamon. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Sept. 2024 (Issue 172)

We have original science fiction by Gabriela Santiago (“Reconstructing ‘The Goldenrod Conspiracy,’ Edina Room, Saturday 2:30-3:30”) and Sagan Yee (“Two Motes in the Zeugma Dark”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “GaaS” from Meg Elison and “The Mote in Bird’s Eye; or, Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space” by Jon Lasser. Plus, we have original fantasy by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (“We the People Excluding I”) and Jae Steinbacher (“The Ex Hex”).We also have a flash story (“The Terrible Secret of The Immortal Bards”) from Adam-Troy Castro, and another (“A Superior Knot”) from Ash Huang. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Aug. 2024 (Issue 171)

We have original science fiction by Richard Thomas (“The Darkness Between the Stars”) and Archita Mittra (“The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain’d”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Resistance” from Cat Rambo and “Under the Skin” by Deborah L. Davitt. Plus, we have original fantasy by Dominique Dickey (“Look at the Moon”) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (“Child of the River”). We also have a flash story (“Mud Maidens Rise”) from K.A. Wiggins, and another (“What’s in a Name”) from Matthew Hughes. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

July 2024 (Issue 170)

We have original science fiction by Dominique Dickey (“The Last Lucid Day”) and Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (“The Heist for the Soul of Humanity”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Only Writing Advice You’ll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors” from Aimee Picchi and “The Aliens Said They Want to Party” by Joel William David Buxton. Plus, we have original fantasy by Vanessa Fogg (“The Red Queen’s Heart”) and Carrie Vaughn (“Between Above and Below”). We also have a flash story (“Songs of the Sorrow of Thorns”) from Amayah Perveen, and another (“A Guide on How to Meet the Deity of Many Faces”) from Oyedotun Damilola Muees. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

June 2024 (Issue 169)

We have original science fiction by Andrea Kriz (“Udo Gehler and the Virgin Bitch of the Resistance”) and Oyedotun Damilola Muees (“Warning Notes From an Annihilator Machine”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Waking Sleep of a Seething Wound” from dave ring and “The Help Hotline” by Dominica Phetteplace. Plus, we have original fantasy by Varsha Dinesh (“Sparrow and the Parasol”) and Deborah L. Davitt (“In the Hands of the Mountain God”). We also have a flash story (“An Otherworldly Cat Tells You the Secrets of the Universe”) from Megan Chee, and another (“The Weight of Salt”) from Shanna Germain. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

May 2024 (Issue 168)

We have original science fiction by Caroline M. Yoachim (“We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read”) and Nisi Shawl (“Over a Long Time Ago”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Last Thing They See Is Laika” from Stephen Geigen-Miller and “Chaos Theory” by Ash Howell. Plus, we have original fantasy by Benjamin Peek (“Exit Interview”) and P H Lee (“Richard Nixon and the Princess of the Crows”). We also have a flash story (“Done Deal”) from Rory Harper, and another (“And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream”) from Marissa Lingen. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

Apr. 2024 (Issue 167)

We have original science fiction by Endria Isa Richardson (“A Pedra”) and Susan Palwick (“Mother’s Day, After Everything”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Under a Star, Bright as Morning” from David Anaxagoras and “Limping Toward Sunrise” by Rich Larson. Plus, we have original fantasy by Modupeoluwa Shelle (“How To Know Your Father Is A God”) and Vandana Singh (“Travelers’ Tales from the Ends of the World”). We also have a flash story (“Salemo”) from David Marino, and another (“a testament to indirection, an enigma, the sun above”) from Mitchell Shanklin. 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 an excerpt from the rerelease of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.

Mar. 2024 (Issue 166)

We have original science fiction by Shingai Njeri Kagunda (“Let the Star Explode”) and Adam-Troy Castro (“The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “An Incomplete Body Has No Answers” from Angela Liu and “Islands of Stability” by Marissa Lingen. Plus, we have original fantasy by Alex Irvine (“Kopki and the Fish”) and Sharang Biswas (“Season of Weddings”). We also have a flash story (“Fragments of a Symbiotic Life”) from Will McMahon, and another (“Only Some of True Love’s Miracles”) from P H Lee. 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 an excerpt from Premee Mohamed’s new novel The Siege of Burning Grass.

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