- “Business as Usual” by Sylvie Althoff (fiction)
- “Traveling at Lightspeed is Easy, Returning to Earth is Hard” by Ian Li (poem)
- “Catastrophizing” by Katie McIvor (fiction)
- “The Six Clues That Tipped Me Off That You Were An Assassin From The Future Coming To Kill Me” by Allan Dyen-Shapiro (fiction)
- “Change Your Mind” by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks (poem)
- “The Fox Spirit’s Retelling” by Wen Wen Yang (fiction)
- “My Mother-in-Law Was Not A Dragon” by Anami Sheppard (fiction)
- “The Shapeshifter’s Daydream” by M. Stevenson (poem)
- “Techniques for Folding Time and Space to Fit Into Your Nightstand” by Brian Hugenbruch (fiction)
- “The Stars At The End of All Things” by AJ Fitzwater (fiction)
- “Fox Fires” by Emmie Christie (poem)
- “Dreadful Necessity Governs All Things” by Rien Gray (fiction)
- “Bookish Tastes” by Susan Taitel (fiction)
- “At My Command” by Devan Barlow (poem)
- “A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking” by Kim Harbridge (fiction)
- “Meant to be Shared” by Rachel Gutin (fiction)
- “A Small Moon Dreams of Reincarnation” by Cathy Bryant (poem)
- “All The Difference” by David M Barry (fiction)
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 16
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 16 (October 2024) contains:
Flash Fiction Online Issue #133 October 2024
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2024 issue of Flash Fiction Online. is an ALL HORROR double-issue. Guest edited by Avra Margariti and Eugenia Triantafyllou, this issue features eight Weird Horror stories from authors around the world.
Stories this month include:
“Within the Dead Whale” by Spencer Nitkey
“The Clockwork Sisters” by L.M. Guay
“Dissection of a Mermaid” by Wailana Kalama
“The Trade” by Erin MacNair, and
“Vinegar-Gurgle” by Andrew K Hoe
“The Tub” by Meg Elison
“To Serve the Emperor” by Damián Neri
“Final Harvest” by Christine Lucas
Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building.
Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles.
The Dark – Issue 113
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 Apostle” by James Bennett
“The Snow Child” by Alison Littlewood (reprint)
“Ruminants” by Kay Chronister
“Bunting” Neil Williamson (reprint)
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 217
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 October 2024 issue (#217) contains:
* Original fiction by Abby Nicole Yee (“A Space O/pera”), Nigel Brown (“The Buried People”), Fiona Moore (“The Children of Flame”), Arula Ratnakar (“Fractal Karma”), Louis Inglis Hall (“Fishing the Intergalactic Stream”), Mike Robinson (“Midnight Patron”), and Damián Neri (“The Face of God: A Documentary”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Gunnar De Winter, interviews with Indrapramit Das and R.S.A. Garcia, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 117
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 October 2024 issue features “Bannerless” by Carrie Vaughn, “The Transition of Osoosi” by Ozzie M. Gartrell, and “Sparklybits” by Nick Wolven. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume One Issue Two
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Dirty Magick Magazine
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: Jennifer Povey, Nathaniel Krenkel, Jan Thompson
The Dusty Lens: The Devils Rain
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #417 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, our Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue, featuring stories by K.J. Parker, Rajiv Moté, and Inderjeet Mani and a novella by Chris Willrich.
On Spec Magazine #129 VOL 34 No 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 34 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Julie E. Czerneda (“Saving Week”, Alex Langer (“Giant of the Stars”), Kristal Stittle (“Rubberized”), Catherine Macleod (“The Biutterfly Effect”), Cat Isidore (“Freezer Burn”), Jonathan Gensler (“You Ain’t Supposed to Die on a Saturday Night”), Fiona Moore (“The Blood Webs”), Rachel Unger (“Bargains”), R. Haven (“Before Her Eyes”), Marie Brennan (“Legio XVII Inquieta”), and Colleen Anderson (“Atalanta Runs”). Poetry by Lorraine Schein (“In the Ghost Kitchen” and “The Noon-Day Witch”), Emmylou Kotzké (“Approaching Storm”), and Peter Norman (“Advice Fail x3″). Interview with Catherine MacLeod by Roberta Laurie. Cover by James Beveridge (Captains of Black and Brass”). Editorial by Diane L. Walton. Cartoon and featured ‘bot by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, with photography by Steve Fahnestalk.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #416
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #416 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Leah Cypess and Max Franciscovich.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 60
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September/October 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Natalia Theodoridou, Eddie Robson, Angela Liu, Tananarive Due, M.M. Olivas, Jo Miles, and Marissa Lingen. Essays by Sophie Aldred, Yamile Saied Méndez, John Scalzi, and LaShawn M. Wanak, poetry by Prosper C. Ìféányí, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Angel Leal, and Mikal Wix, interviews with Angela Liu and M.M. Olivas by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by John Picacio, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 146
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedStrange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.
We publish every other month.
Issue 146 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
Kizimbani by Eugen Bacon and Clare E. Rhoden
And Someone Has to Do It by Koji A Dae
A Tapestry of Dreams by Victor Forna
What Good Daughters Do by Tia Tashiro
The Price of Moss by Akis Linardos
FLASH FICTION
The Eight Things You’ll Never Be Now That You’re Slowly Turning Into a Giant Spider Creature by Alex Sobel
A Very Short History of the Discovery and Origin of Homo Sapiens Microplasticus in Three Parts by Joshua Ginsberg
CLASSIC FICTION
Remembered Salt by E. Catherine Tobler
Auxiliary, Supplementary, Inessential by Wendy N. Wagner
NONFICTION
Ancient Aliens, Clones, and Growing Up as a SFF Reader in Brazil by Renan Bernardo
Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Writing in Solitude by Jordan Kurella
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise
Book Review: John Wiswell’s Someone You Can Build a Nest In by Leah Ning
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Authors Eugen Bacon and Clare E. Rhoden by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Tia Tashiro by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Cover Artist Marco Mazzoni by Bradley Powers
Locus October 2024 (#765)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Lev Grossman and Ananda Lima and a spotlight on The Deadlands and Psychopomp. Glasgow 2024 Worldcon is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. News covers the Dragon Awards winners, R.S.A. Garcia’s Sturgeon Award win, F&SF‘s shift to quarterly publication, the Internet Archive appeal decision, and more. H. Bruce Franklin, Fran Skene, and Leonard Riggio are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Ian McDonald, Nalo Hopkinson, Jeff VanderMeer, Laura van den Berg, Jesse Ball, Alisa Alering, India Holton, Beth Revis, Indrapramit Das (ed.), Richard Powers, M. John Harrison, Manuela Draeger, Kay Chronister, Eden Robins, Dan Kois, Scott R. Jones, Nathan Ballingrud, Tanya Pell, Nghi Vo, J.M. Miro, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and others.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 172 (September 2024)
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 172 of LIGHTSPEED! Here at Lightspeed HQ, we’re not afraid to admit we love great TV. That’s why we can totally empathize with the narrator of our first SF short story this month, “Reconstructing ‘The Goldenrod Conspiracy,’ Edina Room, Saturday 2:30-3:30,” written by Gabriela Santiago-it’s all about a missing episode of a favorite classic SF TV show, and the fans who are trying to solve the mystery around its disappearance. Our second SF short story, “Two Motes in the Zeugma Dark” by Sagan Yee, also features a television staple: the mecha pilot turned superstar. Of course, since this piece is running in Lightspeed, you can bet things don’t unfold quite the way they would on the small screen. Our SF flash includes “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. Our fantasy shorts include a story of manipulation and apocalypse from Osahon Ize-Iyamu: “We the People Excluding I”-which is all about what we’ll endure to save the people we love. Jae Steinbacher, however, delves into what we do to the people we stop loving, in their story of magical accident: “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.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 144 (September 2024)
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 #144 of NIGHTMARE! We have a very ghostly issue featuring original short fiction from Russell Nichols (“What Happened to the Crooners”) and Sam W. Pisciotta (“House of the Hidden Moon”). Our Horror Lab originals include a creative essay (“I Am One of Bluebeard’s Dead Wives”) from Bella D. Bonne and a poem (“A Long Time Afterward”) from Sonya Taaffe. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a film review by Adam-Troy Castro.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 059
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedBreaker breaker 59! Calling out to all fans of sizzling speculative stories! Your ol’ pals at Luna Station are back, with another heaping helping of memory and rebellion, recalcitrant sun goddesses and maybe, just maybe, a dragon or two. If that’s not enough, we’ve got a sentient desert, the effects of the arrival of a second moon, and even our good friend Baba Yaga, chicken legged house and all! So climb aboard The Station and wrap up another long summer with the best in female-fronted fiction!
This issue features:
• “Field Guide to UFOs of the Keweenaw Peninsula” by Phoebe Eliza Billups
• “Burn, Balefire Heart” by Sara Omer
• “Call of the Void” by Alyssa Beatty
• “The Mid-Autumn Festival” by Chezza Lee
• “Sparking Joy” by Y.M. Resnik
• “Rainfall” by Angela Caravan
• “The Desert” by Carolina V. Mata
• “Baba Yaga’s Portrait” by Shannon Scott
• “Dragons Over Cefalù” by Liv DeSimone
• “The Crow Bridge” by Catherine George
• “Overlap” by Rebecca McKee
• “What Remains to Wake” by Jordan Taylor
• “Little Whispers” by Christina Raia
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 15
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 15 (September 2024) contains: