- “Hikari” by Morgan Welch (fiction)
- “The Mummy Gets Adopted” by Amy Johnson (poem)
- “Quantum Eurydice” by Avi Burton (fiction)
- “Whispers of Ascension” by Wendy Nikel (fiction)
- “Lekythos” by Casey Lucas (poem)
- “The Sternum Ties it All Together” by Janna Miller (fiction)
- “Constellations of Flesh, Bone, and Memory” by Timothy Hickson (fiction)
- “Another Cemetery Wedding” by Belicia Rhea (poem)
- “All the Dead Girls, Singing” by Avra Margariti (fiction)
- Troop No. 80085, Marisca Pichette
- Notes From the Delta Spirits, John Lighthouse
- Prim Pressed Posies, Ai Jiang
- Ask a Necromancer, Amanda Downum
- Image Not Found: Francescaís Bridge, Aimee Picchi
- On Paranormal Chaplaincy, Leanna Renee Hieber
- Untitled, Abhinav
- “Planetesimal” by Marisca Pichette (fiction)
- “The Last Snowfall” by Shell St. James (poem)
- “A Glass Darkly” by Micháel McCormick (fiction)
- “Waiting with the Milk” by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (fiction)
- “Complexity Captured” by Michael Theroux (poem)
- “When We Were Infinite” by Wendy Nikel (fiction)
- “Your Good Neighbor” by Taylor Currey (fiction)
- “Gravity” by Francine Rubin (poem)
- “Fancy and Fish Hearts” by Addison Smith (fiction)
Forever Magazine Issue 108
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 January 2024 issue features “Escape From Caring Seasons” by Sarah Pinsker, “Void” by Rajeev Prasad, “Elves of Antarctica” by Paul McAuley, and “The Goruden-Mairu Job” by T.R. Napper. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 7
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 7 (January 2024) contains:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #397
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #397 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Christopher Rowe and Walter J. Wiese.
The Deadlands – Issue 32
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe 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 December 2023 issue (#32) of The Deadlands:
Locus December 2023/January 2024 (#755-756)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2023/January 2024 issue of Locus magazine is a special double issue and has interviews with Robert J. Sawyer, Andrea Stewart, and Ai Jiang, and a spotlight on artist Winona Nelson. Chengdu Worldcon and the World Fantasy Convention are both covered with extensive reports and photos. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2024. News includes the Ignyte and Sidewise Awards winners, Mueller’s Endeavour win, a Worlds of IF Revival, AI news, and more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled What Kind of Bubble is AI. In this month’s obituaries and appreciations, Michael Bishop, Weston Ochse, D.G. Compton, Tim Underwood, A.S. Byatt, Sherrie Cronin, and Bertil Falk are remembered. Reviews cover new titles by R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams (eds.), K.J. Parker, Kelly Link, Nisi Shawl, Ray Nayler, Tashan Mehta, Margrét Helgadóttir (ed.), Premee Mohamed, Bethany Jacobs, Melissa Scott, Foz Meadows, Eliza Chan, Brendan Shay Basham, Aric McBay, Suzan Palumbo, Brent Lambert, Leigh Harlen, Angela Sylvaine, Delilah S. Dawson, Sean Lusk, Molly McGhee, Heather Fawcett, Aimee Pokwatka, Seanan McGuire, Kate Pearsall, Em X. Liu, Mur Lafferty, Aimee Pokwatka, Stephen Markley, Geoff Ryman, Gene Wolfe, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Jonathan Evison, Marie Helene Bertino, Cory Doctorow, Carissa Orlando, Clay McLeod Chapman, Rachel Harrison, Jimmy Juliano, María Fernanda Ampuero, Tananarive Due, Stephen Baxter, Wesley Chu, Megan E. O’Keefe, V.E. Schwab, B. Pladek, Brad Weismann, and others.
On Spec Magazine #126 VOL 33 No 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 33 No 4 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Joshua Grasso (“A World Behind Glass”), Andrew Knighton (“There Are No Fey in Albion”), George S. Walker (“Sleep the World Away”), Pauline Barmby (“Solar Gravitational Lenbs”), Lynne M. MacLean (“Tarot Fish Visions”), Leslie Brown (“A Plague Out of Egypt”), M.C. Tuggle (“Due Diligence”), Holly Schofield (“The Grammar of Jespersen-b”), and Gael Marchand (“Red Stars, White Stars” Translated by Margaret Sankey). Poetry byL. Austen Johnson (“The Leavers”), Julia August (“New Markets”), K.R. Segriff (Muerte a la Revolucion”), and Lynne M. MacLean (“One Way Station”). Interview with Pauline Barmby by Roberta Laurie. Cover by Jeff Mann. Interview with Jeff Mann by Cat McDonald. Editorial by Virginia O’Dine. Non-fiction by Jerri Jerreat. Cartoon and featured ‘bot by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, with photography by Steve Fahnestalk.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 163 (December 2023)
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 163 of LIGHTSPEED! 2023 has been a tough year for short fiction magazines, especially with the demise of the Kindle Periodicals program, where many readers sourced their subscriptions. We’re so grateful to every reader who has changed their subscription over to Weightless or our storefront! Wonderful readers like you all are the reason we keep doing this work. We’re starting this month off with “Carbon Zero” by D. Thomas Minton, a new story of a terrifying near-future where greenhouse gas emissions are as rigorously regulated-or more rigorously regulated-as Schedule I drugs. Adam-Troy Castro returns to our pages with his latest story, “Seed.” It’s a SF piece that asks: how far would you go to save your own life, and what would you be willing to sacrifice? We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Dandelions” from Martin Cahill and “Do the Right Thing and Ride the Bomb the Roundabout Way to Hell” by Andrea Kriz. Our fantasy shorts include “We’ll Never Die in the Woods,” a fairy tale-inspired story of sisterhood, witches, and princesses by Carlie St. George. A.T. Greenblatt delves into the sometimes opposing forces of mindfulness and adventurousness in her story “Mindfulness and the Machine.” We also have a flash story (“Whispers from the Sea”) from Oyedotun Damilola Muees, and another (“To the Waters and the Wild”) from Izzy Wasserstein. Our ebook readers will also enjoy an excerpt from ESCAPE VELOCITY, a new novel by Victor Manibo.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 135 (December 2023)
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 #135 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Ashlee Lhamon (“For All Your Other Daughters”) and Lynette Hoag (“Bete Noire”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“The Twelve Dying Princesses”) from Marisca Pichette and a poem (“dread”) from TJ Price. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a review from Adam-Troy Castro.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #123 December 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2023 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: Cozy as a Mouse Hole by Rebecca Halsey
Little Pound Shop by Rebecca Harrison
Seven Ways to Find Yourself at the Transdimensional Multifandom Convention by Rachael Jones
Five Books from the Alnif Crater Traveling Library by Stewart C Baker
How to Safely Store Your Dragons by Marisca Pichette
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 103
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:
“A Strange & Terrible Wonder” James Bennett
“The Sisters” by Ai Jiang (reprint)
“The Fish’s Wife” by Jorja Osha
“The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk” by Kristina Ten (reprint)
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 056
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedHorses loom large in our collective histories. Symbols of power, of strength, companions on a long journey, heroes, magical creatures, etc. they’re woven through the fabric of our tales.
All this love of horses is pouring out here and now, the obvious inspiration for this year’s theme. There’s such a wild and varied selection of stories in this issue, tales full of magic and mayhem, court intrigues and cybernetic mounts. And of course, a few unicorns for good measure. It’s nothing less than you might expect from a stories centered on a creature with such presence in the tales we’ve told around a fire for millennia. We hope you enjoy the ride.
This issue features:
• “Misty Moon” by Elizabeth Hinckley
• “Horse Girls Til The End” by SK Marre
• “A Unicorn’s Horn Is Proof Against Poison” by Clare Packard
• “High To Kolob On A Cosmic Clydesdale” by Katrina Carruth
• “Merry Go” by Maria Brekke
• “The Last Ride of Rivke Grinkin” by Reyzl Grace
• “Hospitality” by Jennifer Skogen
• “Rain Town” by Mary J. Daley
• “Hell’s Bells” by Cass Sims Knight
• “Out to Pasture” by Juliet Kahn
• “Rodney’s Request” by Mary Jo Rabe
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 207
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 December 2023 issue (#207) contains:
* Original fiction by Fiona Moore (“Morag’s Boy”), Samara Auman (“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Cyborg”), Kelsea Yu (“In Memories We Drown”), Ryan Cole (“Waffles Are Only Goodbye for Now”), Ng Yi-Sheng (“The World’s Wife”), Angela Liu (“The Last Gamemaster in the World”), Fu Qiang (“Kill That Groundhog”), and Thoraiya Dyer (“Eight or Die (Part 2)”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Carrie Sessarego, interviews with RiverFlow, Cat Rambo, and Jennifer Brozek, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 107
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 December 2023 issue features “A Flaw in the Works” by Julie Novakova, “The Bookstore at the End of America” by Charlie Jane Anders, “The Music of a New Path” by A. T. Greenblatt, and “I Give You the Moon” by Justina Robson. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 6
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 6 (December 2023) contains:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #396
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #396 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Aimee Ogden and Jenny Rae Rappaport.
Interzone #296
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedINTERZONE #296 features fiction by Marie Brennan, Rachael Cupp, Alexander Glass, Jon Lasser, Sloane Leong, Hesper Leveret, and Alex Penland; non-fiction by Alexander Glass, Kelly Jennings, Nick Lowe, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; interior art by Richard Wagner; and a cover by Sloane Leong.