- Spawn Red Meat Arachnid, Chris Panatier
- The Ecological Impacts of Resurrection: A Field Study, Corey Farrenkopf
- Inverse Requiem, Abhinav
- Raising an Ancestor, Kay Mabasa
- The Self-Chosen Burial Rites of a Bunch of Twenty-Somethings, Eleora Ryan
- The Rerebirth of Slick, Stephen Kearse
- The High Priestess Falls In Love With Death, Ali Trotta
- Rachel Is At A Protest, Esther Alter
- Ask A Necromancer: Mortui Vivos Docent, Amanda Downum
- End-Of-Life, Lauren Ring
- The Handsome Men, Richard Leis
- Three Things That Happen The Night My Dad Dies, Isabel Cañas
- “Caring For Your Damage Sponge” by Rich Larson (fiction)
- “All-Sky Survey” by Mary Alexandra Agner (poem)
- “The Colossus Stops” by Dafydd McKimm (fiction)
- “Schrödinger’s Bones” by André Geleynse (fiction)
- “In a Cradle of Antlers” by Avra Margariti (poem)
- “Sealskin” by L Chan (fiction)
- “To Save, To Break, To…” by Emily Scharff (fiction)
- “Dodging the Bullet” by Lisa M. Bradley (poem)
- “Fat with Berries, Full of Life” by Brigitte N. McCray (fiction)
The Dark – Issue 111
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:
“Once There Was Water” by Katie McIvor
“The Operculum Necklace” by Alison Littlewood
“Bite Me, Drink Me, Eat Me” by H. Pueyo
“Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones” by Ai Jiang
Locus August 2024 (#763)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Sarah Langan and Moniquill Blackgoose and spotlights on artist Chris McGrath and the Authors Against Book Bans organization. News covers the Shirley Jackson and Prometheus awards winners, the Hugo Awards disqualification, a new Orbit horror imprint, and much more. Reports include the 2024 Locus Awards Weekend, the SFWA Nebula Conference, Readercon, BayCon, the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the 2024 Locus Survey results. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Unpersoned”. Robert Irwin is remembered with an obituary. Reviews cover new titles by Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Pinsker, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Terry Bisson, John Clute, Rob Costello (ed.), Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell (eds.), Leslye Penelope, Nicola Yoon, Puloma Ghosh, Jeff Noon & Steve Beard, Abigail Nussbaum, Shawn Carpenter, T. Kingfisher, Tomi Adeyemi, Xueting C. Ni (ed.), Hafsah Faizal, Ciera Burch, Allie Millington, Kim Harrison, Andrea Hairston, Ahmed Naji (ed.), Craig DiLouie, Josh Malerman, Ann Liang, and many others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 215
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 August 2024 issue (#215) contains:
* Original fiction by Alice Towey (“The Time Capsule”), Thomas Ha (“The Sort”), Rich Larson (“Molum, Molum, Molum the Scourge”), Timothy Mudie (“Something Crossing Over, Something Coming Back”), Rajeev Prasad (“Canyon Dance”), David McGillveray (“The Deformed Saint and the Poison Wind”), Emily Taylor (“Where My Love Still Lives”), and Marisca Pichette (“Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Wole Talabi, interviews with Jonathan Strahan and Nnedi Okorafor, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 115
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 August 2024 issue features “Schools of Clay” by Derek Künsken, “The Woman Who Destroyed Us” by S.L. Huang, and “That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #413
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #413 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jonathan Olfert and J.A. Prentice.
The Deadlands – Issue 35
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFew species other than humans bury their dead. A number of mammals undertake death rituals or practice forms of postmortem grieving, but few will place a body in the ground with intent. Elephants stand watch over their deceased for days. Chimpanzees have been known to carry their infant dead for months after they pass. Even dolphins and giraffes practice varied forms of mourning, but most don’t inter the bodies. Which was why the otters in the forrested backwoods of Hubbardston, Massachusetts were so important to my father’s studies.
The Ecological Impacts of Resurrection: A Field Study
, Corey Farrenkopf
What can you do when you fall in love with death? Rachel is at a protest. You are what you eat, but what are you eating? Rachel is at a protest. How do animals mourn? Rachel is at a protest. How will you mark your own passing? Rachel is at a protest. Can words die—can words be reborn? Rachel is at a protest. What if your heaven is a bike shed? Rachel is at a protest. What of the handsome ones—what of your father? Rachel has always been at a protest.
The Deadlands is a magazine that publishes short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere.
Here’s what you can look forward to in the Summer 2024 issue (#35) of The Deadlands:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #412
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #412 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Samuel Chapman and W.A. Hamilton and cover art by Philip A. Urlich.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #411
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #411 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Emily C. Skaftun and M.R. Robinson.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 59
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July/August 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Sunwoo Jeong, John Chu, AnaMaria Curtis, Eleanna Castroianni, and Megan Chee. Essays by John Scalzi, Marissa Lingen, Del Sandeen, and Natania Barron, poetry by Terese Mason Pierre, Natasha King, Roshani Chokshi, and Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, interviews with Greg van Eekhout and AnaMaria Curtis by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Broci, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 145
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 145 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
Our Lady of the Clay by Daniela Tomova
The Owl by Stephen M.A.
A Lullaby of Anguish by Marie Croke
Loss Prevention by Pamela Rentz
FLASH FICTION
What is Conjured Shall Vanish by Akis Linardos
Intertwined by Anne Wilkins
CLASSIC FICTION
Growing Swirling Clouds by T.K. Rex
Auxiliary, Supplementary, Inessential by Christi Nogle
NONFICTION
Build Your (Weird) Community by Christopher Mark Rose
I Was a Twelve-Year-Old Black Boy Who Wanted to be a Bene Gesserit by Malon Edwards
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise
Book Review: It’s Only a Game by Kelsea Yu by Leah Ning
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Stephen M.A. by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Marie Croke by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Cover Artist Silvia Moravčíková Bobeková by Bradley Powers
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 170 (July 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 170 of LIGHTSPEED! Both of our original short SF stories wrestle with meaning and expression. The first is Dominique Dickey’s story “The Last Lucid Day,” about a technology that gives people with dementia the capacity to know what their last lucid day will be. If you’ve had family members with this insidious condition, this story will both rip out your heart and give you a hug. Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko’s novelette “The Heist for the Soul of Humanity” pulls back its lens to focus on a humanity spread across solar systems, but still struggling to make art outside the grip of corporate giants. On top of the philosophical and sociological musings, this story offers up just what its title promises: a cunning heist adventure. In this month’s flash fiction, we have an SF story in the guise of a writing advice column (“The Only Writing Advice You’ll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors” by Aimee Pichi) and “The Aliens Said They Want to Party,” a hilarious first contact piece by Joel W.D. Buxton. Of course we have two fantasy flash pieces, as well, including “Songs of the Sorrow of Thorns” from Amayah Perveen, and “A Guide on How to Meet the Deity of Many Faces” from Oyedotun Damilola Muees. Our fantasy short stories include “The Red Queen’s Heart” by Vanessa Fogg, the story of a magical market and a powerful woman’s purchases. Carrie Vaughn offers us “Between Above and Below,” which puts a retired angel in the dangerous position of needing to care about a human.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 142 (July 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 #142 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Thomas Ha (“Grottmata”) and Megan Chee (“The Museum of Cosmic Retribution”). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem (“Automaton Boy”) from Sara S. Messenger and a flash story (“Phantom Taste of Apricot on My Tongue”) from Richard Leis. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors. In our de_crypt_ed column, where we bring in visiting authors to discuss books that have been their biggest influences, Donyae Coles talks about gothic fiction.
The Dark – Issue 110
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 Terms & Conditions of Kindness” by James Bennett
“That Maddening Heat” by Ray Cluley (reprint)
“The Debt I Owe” by Alex Sobel
“Solivagant” by Angela Slatter (reprint)
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 13
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 13 (July 2024) contains:
Flash Fiction Online Issue #130 July 2024
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2024 issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
Fiction in fewer words.
In this month’s issue:
“Editorial: Voyages” by Rebecca Halsey
“Ascension’s Eve” by Rich Larson
“Salisbury Confederate Prison, North Carolina, 1864” by Tess Lloyd
“Perfect Vaca, No Filter” by Vivian Chou
“Sturgeon Moon Jam” by Jennifer Hudak
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.
Locus July 2024 (#762)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with Cory Doctorow and Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ. News covers the 2024 Locus Awards winners and Locus Poll writeup, as well as the 2023 Nebula Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, and Seiun Awards, the transformation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s home into a writers residency site, the auction of the first Hugo trophy, the RWA bankruptcy, and much more. StokerCon 2024 is covered with a report and photos. Obituaries remember John Maddox Roberts, MaryAnn Harris, and Doug Lewis. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “SF Doesn’t Predict, It Contests”. Reviews cover new titles by Greg Egan, Nalo Hopkinson, Minsoo Kang, Christopher Barzak, Jonathan Lethem, Sarah Rees Brennan, Aliette de Bodard, Melissa Caruso, P.H. Low, Kaaron Warren, Joel Dane, Adam Marek, Robin Wasley, Kacen Callender, Gwenda Bond, Melissa Marr, Jared Pechaček, Michael J. DeLuca, Elwin Cotman, Anton Hur, Dee Kelly, Jr., Eric LaRocca, Chris Panatier, A.D. Sui, Michael Shea, Tim Pratt, Christopher Buehlman, Kevin Hearne, H.A. Clarke, Allan Kaster (ed.), and others.