- “How Sara Found the Possum That Held Time in Its Pouch Under Her Porch, Then Lost It” by S.L. Harris (fiction)
- “If I Had a Time Machine” by Angela Liu (poem)
- “The Universe Ends on a Tuesday” by Aimee Ogden (fiction)
- “By A Doorstep That Never Receives You” by Ai Jiang (fiction)
- “The Rain Fell Between Us” by Anna Madden (poem)
- “Clutch. Stick. Shift.” by Tehnuka (fiction)
- “Grandma is the Final Girl” by Wen Wen Yang (fiction)
- “Such a Nice House” by Julia LaFond (poem)
- “The Great Beyond Commands” by John Wiswell (fiction)
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 139 (April 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 #139 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Shannon Scott (“My Containment”) and James Tatam (“Backseat Kiss”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“There Are Three Children Jumping Over a Can Outside a Bodega”) from Mark Galarrita and a poem (“Ensabled Night”) from John R. Turner. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a book discussion from Sonora Taylor.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #126 March 2024
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 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: The Reversal by Rebecca Halsey
Toby on Third by Jim Kourlas
Please Click by Lettie Prell
Just a Greedy Ifriti by Damyanti Biswas
Like Blood for Ink by Aimee Ogden
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 107
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:
“Vivisepulture” by James Bennett
“Water Like Broken Glass” by Carina Bissett (reprint)
“Imago” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Dead But Dreaming Still” by Michael Kelly (reprint)
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 10
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 10 (April 2024) contains:
Locus April 2024 (#759)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Nalo Hopkinson and Ken MacLeod and a spotlight on artist Sara Felix. News includes the 2023 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, Chandrasekera’s Crawford win, Doherty’s Heinlein Award win, Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s shift to editor-at-large, the BSFA Awards finalists, and much more. Obituaries remember Brian Stableford, Jaime Lee Moyer, Dick Jenssen, and Sue Arroyo, with additional appreciations for Steve Miller. Reviews cover new titles by Charlotte Bond, Park Seolyeon, Aliette de Bodard, Samantha Mills, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, John Wyndham, Harlan Ellison, Sami Ellis, Darcie Little Badger, Alastair Reynolds, Linda Nagata, Kathleen Jennings, Yoon Ha Lee, GennaRose Nethercott, Lucy Holland, Bogi Takács, Yun Ko-Eun, Matthew Cheney, Mustafa Gündoğdu & Orsola Casagrande (eds.), Gareth Brown, Steven Dos Santos, Camille Gomera-Tavarez, Ronald Malfi, Marie-Helene Bertino, and others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 211
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 April 2024 issue (#211) contains:
* Original fiction by Eleanna Castroianni (“The Lark Ascending”), Tia Tashiro (“An Intergalactic Smugglers Guide to Homecoming”), Rich Larson (“The Indomitable Captain Holli”), Derrick Boden (“The Arborist”), Shen Dacheng (“The Rambler”), Kelly Jennings (“Occurrence at O1339”), and Natalia Theodoridou (“The Oldest Fun”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, interviews with Sofia Samatar and Ann Leckie, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 111
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 April 2024 issue features “A Different Sea” by Vandana Singh, “The Shadow We Cast Through Time” by Indrapramit Das, “Where There are Cities, These Dissolve Too” by S. Qiouyi Lu, and “Legion” by Malka Older. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #404
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #404 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Devin Miller and Jonathan Edelstein.
Interzone #298
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIn this issue: stories by Saswati Chatterjee, Rachael Cupp, Mame Bougouma Diene, Ai Jiang, Joyce Meggett, Carlos Norcia, and Antony Paschos; columns by Alexander Glass, Nick Lowe, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; and book reviews by Alexander Glass, Kelly Jennings, Paul Kincaid, and Val Nolan. The cover art, WE HAVE KNOWN BRIGHT HILLSIDES REDOLENT OF GORSE, is by Martin Hanford.
On Spec Magazine #127 VOL 34 No 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 34 No 1 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Jeb Gaudet (“Cleaning House”), Andrew Rucker Jones (“Better Luck Next Time”), Cale Plett (“TheOther Half”), Shih-li Kow (“In Exchange”), KT Wagner (“Frozen Charlotte”), Karl El-Kours (“Salvation of the Innocents”), Jon Lasser (“John Barleycorn Must Die, and Your Little Dog Toto, Too”), Brian M. Milton (“Ogres in the Mist”), and Heather Fraser (“Rpoutine Resupply”). Poetry by Swati Chavda (“The Cosmic Cartographer”), Colleen Anderson (“Dying of the Light”), Shilpa Kamat (“The Move”), and Kim Whysall-Hammond (“home”). Interview with Cale Plett by Roberta Laurie. Cover by Robert Pasternak. Interview with Robert Pasternak by Cat McDonald. Editorial by Diane L. Walton. Cartoon and featured ‘bot by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, with photography by Steve Fahnestalk.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #403
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #403 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jonathan Olfert and Adam Breckenridge.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 57
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March/April 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Nghi Vo, Lavie Tidhar, Katherine Ewell, Annalee Newitz, Valerie Valdes, Parlei Rivière, and Amanda Helms. Essays by John Scalzi, G. Willow Wilson, Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, and Brandon O’Brien, poetry by Jennifer Mace, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Tiffany Morris, and Eva Papasoulioti, interviews with Nghi Vo and Valerie Valdes by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Antonio Javier Caparo, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 143
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 143 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
The Ghost Tenders of Chornobyl by Nika Murphy
Everything in the Garden is Lovely by Hannah Yang
Complete Log of Week 893819 – Dana’s Story by Renan Bernardo
Chị Tấm is Tired of Being Dead by Natasha King
The Ferns and the Fiddleheads by Leah Ning
FLASH FICTION
The End of the Middle by Andrew Kozma
A Ring Around by Lyndsey Croal
HOLIDAY HORROR MICROFICTION
Racing Headless Jenny by Kati Bumbera
Where the Flowers Bloom So Fair by Faith Allington
The Kingdom of Wax by Circe Moskowitz
CLASSIC FICTION
Both Hands by Christopher Caldwell
The Feeding of Closed Mouths by Eden Royce
NONFICTION
Treat ‘Em Right: Science Fiction vs Art Classification by Shiv Ramdas
Escapism is a Lie by E.D.E. Bell
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Natasha King by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Nika Murphy by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Cover Artist Caroline Jamhour by Bradley Powers
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 166 (March 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 166 of LIGHTSPEED! We start off the month with an original science fiction short by Shingai Njeri Kagunda: “Let the Star Explode.” It’s a story that re-envisions what space travel might be like-and how it can connect us to others in utterly unexpected ways. Adam-Troy Castro returns to our pages with a meditation on the nature of cruelty against non-humans in his story “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. Alex Irvine brings us an original fairy tale in his new fantasy short, “Kopki and the Fish.” Sharang Biswas explores the social life of gods in his story “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. For nonfiction, we have spotlight interviews with our short fiction authors and another round of book reviews from our staff. Our ebook readers will also enjoy a book excerpt from THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 138 (March 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 #138 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Keith Rosson (“Second Deaths”) and Fatima Taqvi (“Our Very Best Selves!”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“A Guide to Camping in the Forest”) from Oyedotun Damilola Muees and a poem (“The Let Go”) from E. Catherine Tobler. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and Adam-Troy Castro returns with some book recommendations.
Locus March 2024 (#758)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with Shelley Parker-Chan and Moses Ose Utomi and spotlights on artists Manzi Jackson and Richard A. Kirk. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2024. News and features include remembrances of Christopher Priest (1943-2024), a report on Hugo Awards tampering, the Stoker Award preliminary ballot, international reports on SF in Brazil and Indian science fiction magazines, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Capitalists Hate Capitalism”. Obituaries remember Brian Lumley, Steve Miller, Stephen Gregory, Joe Sanders, James Hosek, Sanford Zane Meschkow, and Patrick Heffernan. Reviews cover new titles by Ann Leckie, Sofia Samatar, P. Djèlí Clark, Ray Nayler, Jack McDevitt, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, John Wiswell, L.M. Sagas, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (ed.), Natasha Pulley, Hao Jingfang, Justine Norton-Kertson (ed.), A.G. Slatter, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, Helen Oyeyemi, Yeji Y. Ham, Soyoung Park, Robert Jackson Bennett, Premee Mohamed, Moses Ose Utomi, Su Bristow, Constance Fay, Melissa Albert, Samantha Mabry, and others. Vote now in the Locus Poll and Survey at poll.voting.locusmag.com, and contribute at igg.me/at/locusmag2024 starting March 5 for our annual fundraiser with awesome rewards from author chats to reading alien T-shirts.