- “Celestial Bodies” by Mar Vincent (fiction)
- “Music of the Seraphim” by Angel Leal (poem)
- “What You Sow” by Holly Schofield (fiction)
- “Elo?se” by Albert Chu (fiction)
- “Kannaki Contemplates” by Tehnuka (poem)
- “Up From Out of Clay” by Eris Young (fiction)
- “Unbending My Bones” by Sierra Branham (fiction)
- “Swan’s Song” by Colleen Anderson (poem)
- “The Stars That Fall” by Samantha Murray (fiction)
- The Slave Boy, Denzel Xavier Scott
- When the Sounds of Fallen Patriots Break into the Wind, I Will Play Dead, Olalekan Daniel Kehinde
- doorbell dot mov, Jennifer R. Donohue
- the golden armor of science, Dylan Haston
- I Love Him Artichoke, Anna-Claire McGrath
- Etch A Sketch, Stephanie French
- Ask a Necromancer: Vision and Death, Amanda Downum
- The City Unsleeping, Anya Leigh Josephs
- Carbon Cycle, Lindsay King-Miller
- The Weather Man, Stephen M.A.
- Intersections of grief, Diana Dima
- The Clockmaker, Marc Joan
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #407
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #407 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Amanda Helms and J. Bridges.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 58
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May/June 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Arkady Martine, Sarah Rees Brennan, Tia Tashiro, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Rati Mehotra, K.S. Walker, and John Wiswell. Essays by John Scalzi, Amy Berg, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Cara Liebowitz, poetry by Angela Liu, Ali Trotta, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, and Fran Wilde, interviews with Arkady Martine and K.S. Walker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Zara Alfonso, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 144
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 144 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
Those Left Behind by Kanishk Tantia
At Night She Dreams of Silverfish by Monica Joyce Evans
Down the Dust Hatch by Derrick Boden
The Clown Watches the Clown by Sara S. Messenger
The Art the Owls Can�t Swallow by Spencer Nitkey
The Jukebox Man by Natalia Theodoridou
FLASH FICTION
Out of Print by Wen Wen Yang
To Rise Again by Kelsea Yu
CLASSIC FICTION
Abode by Jermane Cooper
Wanderlust by LP Kindred
NONFICTION
The Wonder of the Weird West by Nicole Givens Kurtz
Get Bored by Rebecca E. Treasure
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise
Book Review: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera by Leah Ning
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Kanishk Tantia by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Sara S. Messenger by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Cover Artist Tom Edwards by Bradley Powers
Interzone #299
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIn this issue: stories by Seán Padraic Birnie, E.G. Condé, Rachael Cupp, Roby Davies, Matt Hollingsworth, Prashanth Srivatsa, and R. Wren; columns by Alexander Glass, Nick Lowe, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; and book reviews by Gautam Bhatia, Zachary Gillan, Kelly Jennings, Paul Kincaid, Giselle Leeb, and Val Nolan. The cover art, SIBILANCE, is by Carly A-F.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 168 (May 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 168 of LIGHTSPEED! One of the things speculative fiction does best is exploring different kinds of minds via the use of unusual story structures. Well, we’re kicking off this issue with a powerful story that nearly breaks the very nature of reading! “We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim tells the story of an alien culture in a fresh, exciting format. Luckily for you, we’ve included instructions to help you understand every fantastic page. We also have a new original science fiction story by Nisi Shawl: “Over a Long Time Ago,” a dark tale of unhappy relationships and space exploration. Stephen Geigen-Miller also delves into space exploration in his flash piece “The Last Thing They See Is Laika.” Ash Howell’s story of gene manipulation “Chaos Theory” joins our flash SF. Ben Peek returns to the Ministry of Saturn in his dark fantasy story “Exit Interview.” P H Lee explores the nature of tricksters in their alternate history tale “Richard Nixon and the Princess of 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. In nonfiction, we have a terrific array of book reviews, and of course, our spotlight interviewers have sat down with our authors to get more insight into their stories.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 140 (May 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 #140 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Daniel David Froid (“An Offering from the Void”) and Victor Forna (“like blood on the mouths of death”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“Solve This One, Mrs. Miller”) from Carlie St. George and a poem (“The Southern Bells”) from Beatrice Winifred Iker. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with author J. Nicole Jones.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #128 May 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: Voice by Rebecca Halsey
Lord Mortedart’s Revenge by Katie Kotulak
The Chicken’s Just Fine by J. Autumn Needles
Darkness, Blanket of My Eyes by Brandon Case
Midnight Burritos with Zozrozir by Rachael K. Jones
Jelly by Vicki Wilson
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.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 11 (May 2024) contains:
The Dark – Issue 108
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:
“Bread Water” by Jorja Osha
“You Can Have the Ground, My Love” by Carlie St. George (reprint)
“In Thin Air” by Phoenix Alexander
“Rabbit’s Foot” by H. Pueyo (reprint)
Locus May 2024 (#760)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with Malka Older and Victor Manibo. News includes the 2024 Hugo Awards Ballot, Bethany Jacobs’s Philip K. Dick Award win, the Small Press Distribution shutdown, the Chesley Awards winners, and more. Photo reports cover the 2024 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Norwescon 46, and the Williamson Lectureship. Daria Piskozub reports on SF in Ukraine: On Fantasy Tropes and Romanticizing Reality. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story”. Obituaries remember Vernor Vinge, James A. Moore, John Barth, Trina Robbins, Kirk Dougal, Deb Geisler, R.F. Lucchetti, Caitlin Thomas, and Sharon Green. Reviews cover new titles by Peter S. Beagle, Cory Doctorow, Nghi Vo, Kaliane Bradley, Frankie Barnet, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Hana Lee, Rebecca Fraimow, Daniel M. Ford, Joey Eschrich & Ed Finn (eds.), Elaine U. Cho, Ben Berman Ghan, Zalika Reid-Benta, Jennifer Thorne, Malka Older, Helen Moffett & Rachel Zadok (eds.), Bothayna Al-Essa, Stephen Graham Jones, Seanan McGuire, Micaiah Johnson, Steven Brust, Sarah Brooks, Mariely Lares, Alexander Boldizar, Tobi Ogundiran, and others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 212
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 May 2024 issue (#212) contains:
* Original fiction by Alice Towey (“Fishy”), Fiona Moore (“The Portmeirion Road”), Carolyn Zhao (“In Which Caruth is Correct”), Thomas Ha (“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”), Samara Auman (“The Texture of Memory, of Light”), Rajeev Prasad (“The Blinding Light of Resurrection”), Carlie St. George (“The Weight of Your Own Ashes”), and K. J. Khan (“Our Father”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, interviews with Andrea Hairston and Andrea Kriz, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 112
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 May 2024 issue features “Tunnels” by Eleanor Arnason, “Love Songs for the Very Awful” by Robert Reed, and “Planetstuck” by Sam J. Miller. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #406
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #406 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marissa Lingen and Aimee Ogden.
The Deadlands – Issue 34
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWhole city came back wrong, an old man says as he buys a lottery ticket at the liquor store window. If I win big, I’m getting out of here. The resurrection of New York had been the greatest feat of necromantic magic known in the modern age. As usual, no one had wanted the necromancers there at all.
“The City Unsleeping,” Anya Leigh Josephs
Within the intersections of grief, a slave boy meets a mysterious stranger, the city of New York flails in a pandemic, we are become plastic, ghosts come calling at all hours, cremains slip through our fingers, war, the ticking of a clock, eternal war, we court that which we should not, and follow it into the depths of hells we cannot understand.
“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 Spring 2024 issue (#34) of The Deadlands:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #405
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #405 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Christine Hanolsy and Liana Richmond and cover art by Nele Diel.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 167 (April 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 167 of LIGHTSPEED! Our science fiction section kicks off with a bang with Endria Isa Richardson’s new SF short story “A Pedra,” which explores the difficult topic of human experimentation. Susan Palwick turns her attention to the effects of climate change in her story “Mother’s Day, After Everything.” David Anaxagoras and Rich Larson bring a little levity with their flash pieces, “Under a Star, Bright as Morning” and “Limping Toward Sunrise” (respectively). Our original fantasy work includes “How to Know Your Father Is a God” by Modupeoluwa Shelle. We also have a novelette by Vandana Singh-“Travelers’ Tales from the Ends of the World”-that powerfully explores the impact of climate change through a magical lens. We also have a flash story (“Salemo”) from David Marino, and another (“a testament to indirection, an enigma, the sun above”) from Mitchell Shanklin.