- “Going to Hell” by J.L. Akagi (fiction)
- “Dead Season” by Davian Aw (poem)
- “The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue” by Jennifer Lesh Fleck (fiction)
- “The Founding of Zeget” by Diana Dima (fiction)
- “The Dreamweaver’s Name” by Megan Chee (fiction)
- “An Ache With No Name” by Toby MacNutt (poem)
- “The Fox’s Cartographer” by Devin Miller (fiction)
- “A Taste of Clean Water” by Ian Li (poem)
- “To Kiss the Chrysanthemum Moon” by Wen Wen Yang (fiction)
- “A Shaky Bridge” by Marissa Lingen
- “And The Planet Loved Him” by L Chan
- “Sleeper” by R.T. Ester
- “Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost” by Ai Jiang
- “Sea of Fertility” by Bella Han
- “Heart of Thunder” by Raahem Alvi
- “A Dream of Twin Sunsets” by Ryan Cole
- “Vwooom!” by Uchechukwu Nwaka
- “The Rebellion is Real: 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale in 2025” by Carrie Sessarego
- “Women, Technology, and the Future: A Conversation with Brenda Cooper” by Arley Sorg
- “Tactical Ballgowns and Genre Turduckens: A Conversation with Fran Wilde” by Arley Sorg
- “Editor’s Desk: The Future of Dealing with AI Submissions” by Neil Clarke
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 155 (Aug. 2025)
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 #155 of NIGHTMARE! We have a short novelette from Kristina Ten (“Bunny Ears”) and flash fiction from Martin Cahill (“Eight Ball) and Angela Yiu (“Swallow Test”). We also have a poem called “Turnip Heads” from Pedro Iniguez. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors.
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume One Issue Twelve
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Ten
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:Craig Crawford, Jessica Andrewartha, Deborah Davitt
The Dusty Lens: The Humanoid
Locus August 2025 (#775)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Alexander Boldizar, and a spotlight on artist Michael Blank. News covers the World Fantasy Awards Ballot, the Shirley Jackson and Prometheus Awards winners, Sierra Greer’s Arthur C. Clarke Award win, the British Fantasy Awards shortlist, and much more. Reports include the 2025 Locus Awards Weekend, StokerCon, Westercon 77/BayCon, and the 2025 Locus Survey results. Tess Williams is remembered with an obituary. Reviews cover new works by T. Kingfisher, Caitlín R. Kiernan, MK Hardy, Martha Wells, Wendy N. Wagner, Emily Hunt Kivel, Andrew Kaufman, E.M. Anderson, Lee Mandelo (ed.), Christopher Golden & Brian Keene (eds.), Louis Sachar, Bitter Karella, Emma Sloley, Carol Emshwiller, Yiming Ma, Jon Bassoff, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, Omar Hussain, Ling Ling Huang, Xan Kaur, Jim C. Hines, Jo Schulte, and others.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 26
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 26 (Aug 2025) contains:
Flash Fiction Online Issue #143 August 2025
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFlash Fiction Online’s August 2025 issue is full of love (lost, found, dreamed of) and relationships in all their messy glory.
Stories this month include:
“Textures” by Lisa Fox
“No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark
“I Was Made for Loving You” by Angela James
“The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos
“Dislocated” by Stephen Granade, and
“The Color of Things” by Eleanor Lennox.
Cover art for this issue is “Parting” by Molly Mendoza.
Flash Fiction Online is a digital magazine for flash fiction stories from both established and emerging writers. We look across all styles and genres (literary & speculative) for a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building. Flash fiction might be small, but each piece packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer.
The Dark – Issue 123
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:
“They Must Be Angels” by Elle Zi Dong
“The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” by J.A.W. McCarthy (reprint)
“Husk” by James Bennett (reprint)
“The Taint” by Anne Wilkins
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 227
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 2025 issue (#227) contains:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Cover Art
“Blue Ship” by Pascal Blanché
Forever Magazine Issue 127
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 2025 issue features “What We Hold Onto” by Jay O’Connell, “Kindred” by Peter Watts, and “At Every Door a Ghost” by Premee Mohamed. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #438
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #438 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Stephen Case and Trae Hawkins and cover art by Ankush Sharma.
The Deadlands – Issue 39
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWhen Death comes, say hello. Welcome Death in. Set Death a place. Your body is not you, it is what holds you. You are star stuff, you are carbon and calcium and creation. You are water, wiles, and wishing. Say hello and blow a kazoo. Say hello and offer a drink. And if you must sleep forever, go knowing all those who have gone before you, and all those who will follow. You are not alone. We all do this in time.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #437
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #437 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Rosemary Claire Smith and Malda Marlys.
Weird Horror 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #436
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #436 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Alma Alexander and Holden Lee.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 182 (July 2025)
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 182 of LIGHTSPEED! We have original science fiction by Meghan McCarron (“Lord of Mars”) and Naomi Kanakia (“Domestic Disputes”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “How to Win Against the Robots” from Katherine Crighton and “Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide” by Leah Cypess._Plus, we have original fantasy by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (“A Dish Best Served Cold, Or, An Excerpt From the Cookbook of the Gods”) and Paul Crenshaw (“You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb”). We also have a flash story (“What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City?”) from sadoeuphemist, and another (“Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective”) from Spencer Nitkey._All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 154 (July 2025)
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 #154 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Kristi DeMeester (“Asking For It”) and Anne Mai Yee Jansen (“Hungry Ghosting”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash piece (“The Hearth”) from Benjamin Percy and a poem (“The Neighbor’s Cat”) from Kevin Varghese. For nonfiction, we’ll be featuring an interview with film director Kevin Greutert. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors.
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume One Issue Eleven
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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:Ryan Rennik, Scott Roche, Benjamin Chandler
The Dusty Lens: The Otherworld