- “Gifted and Talented” by Marika Bailey (fiction)
- “Cutting the Cord” by Marie Brennan (poem)
- “An Insect Who Dreamt She Was A Woman” by Melanie Mulrooney (fiction)
- “Five Hundred Defects” by Michael Zahniser (fiction)
- “ACCESS DENIED” by Lydian Kind (poem)
- “The Last Sentinels” by Dawn Lloyd (fiction)
- “Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch’s Frog Faire” by Indigo Rue (fiction)
- “Dr. Hypha’s Laboratory” by Brian U. Garrison (poem)
- “Bee Kept” by Jordan Hirsch (fiction)
- “Abstraction is when I design giant death creatures and Attraction is when I do it for you” by Claire Jia-Wen
- “Wireworks” by Sheri Singerling
- “Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins” by Louis Inglis Hall
- “Aperture” by Alexander Jablokov
- “The Fury of the Glowmen” by David McGillveray
- “Five Impossible Things” by Koji A. Dae
- “A World of Their Own” by Robert Falco
- “What A Cup of Coffee Can Teach Us About Science” by Douglas F. Dluzen
- “Brutality and Whimsy: A Conversation with Martin Cahill” by Arley Sorg
- “Fear, Indecision, and Doubt: A Conversation with Thomas Ha” by Arley Sorg
- “Editor”s Desk: Aftermath of a Worldcon” by Neil Clarke
New York Review of Science Fiction #357
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Awaken from Your Slumber Issue: Brian Stableford: Xavier de Ricard’s “poésie scientifique”; Joe Sanders: Kate Wilhelm’s extant Nothing; Ayal Hayut-man: Memory & Trauma in Rothfuss; Lola Granger-Jourdan: Aliens in Shanty Town; Reviews of: Other Beatles; Vonnegut in graphic novel form; Sorokin; Barba; & Lindsey Ellis; And: Two Michaels–Swanwick Questions Moorcock!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #441
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #441 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Aimee Ogden and Kate Francia and cover art by Jereme Peabody.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 66
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September/October 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring all-new short fiction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, M. M. Olivas, AnaMaria Curtis, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Juliet Kahn, Tim Pratt, and Hannah Yang; essays by Senaa Ahmad, LaShawn M. Wanak, Del Sandeen, and Theo Kane; poetry by Angela Liu, Dr. Taylor Byas, Jasmine Leng, and Susan L. Lin; interviews with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Juliet Kahn by Caroline M. Yoachim; Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Listen To Me And I’ll Tell You A Story as the cover; and an editorial by Michael Damian Thomas.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 063
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedReading the stories for this issue has been a reassuring reminder that there is still space for humanity, if we choose to keep it there for ourselves. I’m grateful for the authors in this issue, and grateful for their work. It feels like an act of defiance…
Humans writing stories, humans creating art, and humans connecting and sharing that work with the world. We are storytelling animals, always have been, always will be. This issue is proof that stories still mean something in our world…
– from the Introduction
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 184 (September 2025)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Welcome to issue 184 of LIGHTSPEED! We’re kicking off the month with a new SF short by Kel Coleman: “Last Meal Aboard the Awassa,” a space-faring tale about the importance of gratitude and community in the face of adversity. In C.Z. Tacks’ “The Girlfriend Experience,” we steer into a more cyberpunk-flavored experience. We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Place I Came To” from Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko and “City of One” by Stephen S. Power. Our original fantasy includes “Apeiron,” a new short by Cadwell Turnbull that perfectly captures what it’s like to parent a talented and gifted teen . . . but with a magical twist. Isabel J. Kim brings us a beautiful story about sirens, family, and the power of love in “Human Voices.” 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 Takacs.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 156 (September 2025)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue #156 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Champ Wongsatayanont (“Autogas Ferryman”) and Ash Huang (“Safe Face”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash (“Finishing Touches”) from Adam-Troy Castro and a poem (“Blood-Orange”) from L.M. Harris. We’ll be serving up the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors. Adam-Troy Castro pens another fun media review.
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume Two Issue Thirteen
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Ten
Dirty Magick Magazine is a monthly fantasy, urban fantasy, and gothic horror magazine first published in September 2024. The editor and publisher is C.D. Brown.
Stories: Patrick Thomas, Sanya Dimova, Kay Hanifen, Jeff Somers
Film Column: Naked Steel: The Hobbit
Book reviews by Jennifer R. Povey
Locus September 2025 (#776)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Cadwell Turnbull and Yume Kitasei, and a spotlight on Comma Press. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2026. News includes the 2025 Hugo Awards winners, the launch of new Simon & Schuster UK imprint Solstice Books, the Montréal in 2027 Worldcon bid win, and SFWA updates; plus Aurora, Mythopoeic, Seiun, and Sidewise Awards winners, Dragon Awards and Endeavour Award finalists, and much more. The issue includes reports and photos from Readercon 34 and the Gen Con Writers Symposium, and photos from the summer writing workshops. This month’s commentary by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Reverse Centaurs”. Greg Iles and Terry A. Murray are remembered with obituaries. Reviews include new titles by Alix E. Harrow, K.J. Parker, Nghi Vo, Richard Wolinsky (ed.), Tasha Suri, Fran Wilde, Lois McMaster Bujold, Nancy Kress, Nick Mamatas, Bora Chung, Makenna Goodman, Errick Nunnally, Rachel Hartman, Melissa Caruso, Tom Cox, Yume Kitasei, Premee Mohamed, E.J. Swift, Aliya Whiteley, Allan Kaster (ed.), Louisa Morgan, Kathleen Jennings, Rie Qudan, Lindsay Merbaum, C.L. Clark, C. Robert Cargill, Chinaza Bado, Fallon Demornay, Mia P. Manansala, Samira Ahmed, Stephen Graham Jones, Sarah Langan, Rebecca Campbell, and others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #144 September 2025
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFlash Fiction Online’s September 2025 issue is a meta-fictional exploration of how literature and words shapeshift when authors engage in conversations with the works that have come before them.
Stories this month include:
“Silence, in the Doorway, with a Gun” by Nadia Radovich
“The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or The Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un
“Yet Another Unforgettable Luncheon” by Leo Rein
“Out of Print” by Wen Wen Yang
“Emerald Gears” by Beth Goder
“The Things You Bought for the Robot” by Stefan Alcalá Slater, and
“The Forest Through the Teas” by Wendy Nikel.
Cover art for this issue is “Monday Toss Up” by Alexa Guariglia.
Flash Fiction Online is a digital magazine for flash fiction stories from both established and emerging writers. We look across all styles and genres (literary & speculative) for a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building. Flash fiction might be small, but each piece packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 27
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 27 (September 2025) contains:
The Dark – Issue 124
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“The Light Over the Lake” by Malena Salazar Maciá
“The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak (reprint)
“The Toddler” by Sanni Omodolapo
“Prairie Teeth” by EC Dorgan (reprint)
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 228
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our September 2025 issue (#228) contains:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Cover Art
“The Key” by Ninja Jo
Forever Magazine Issue 128
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our September 2025 issue features “Broken Wings” by William Ledbetter, “The Lichens” by Nina Allan, and “Company Man” by Shiv Ramdas. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #440
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #440 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jonathan Olfert and Julie Reeser.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #439
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #439 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jonathan Louis Duckworth and Vijayalaxmi Samal and cover art by Jereme Peabody.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 183 (August 2025)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Welcome to issue 183 of LIGHTSPEED! We’re kicking off our science fiction with a tasty new story by Adam-Troy Castro: “Feast of Famine.” If you’ve ever been to a buffet, you know how dangerous it can be to take just a little bit of everything-now imagine what could happen if you were at an infinite buffet in its own pocket dimension. We then pivot in a very different SFnal direction to serve up V.M. Ayala’s thrilling cyberpunk story “To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter.” David Anaxagoras brings us a heartbreaking flash piece about the ways war affects children: “Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-Battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis.” And Sarah Langan brings us a flash piece about the cruelty of harvesting our dreams in “The Dream Tourists.” Our first piece of original fantasy, “It Might Be He Returns” by Fatima Taqvi, is the story of a young man who learns some terrible truths about fate and equality. For those looking for some exciting swordplay and fascinating magical beings, Christopher Rowe brings us “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.