- “Katya’s Microscope” by Monica Joyce Evans (fiction)
- “Five Easy Hairstyles for Snake-Haired Girls” by Jelena Dunato (poem)
- “Granny’s Spider” by Wen Wen Yang (fiction)
- “On the bare unwelcoming shore” by Zohar Jacobs (fiction)
- “Drunken Supernova” by Keira Perkins (poem)
- “Faith That Builds Worlds” by Eric A. Clayton (fiction)
- “If We Live to Be Giants” by Allison Mulder (fiction)
- “Sever” by Lora Gray (poem)
- “Five Functions of Your Bionosaur” by Rachael K. Jones (fiction)
- A Lace of Music, Damilola Omotoyinbo (poetry)
- Sitting Shiva, Zachary Rosenberg (fiction)
- #587 Mourn for Relatives, MK Zvokel (nonfiction)
- Vertigo, Abhinav (poetry)
- Ask A Necromancer: Into Something Rich & Strange, Amanda Downum (nonfiction)
- Just Another Door, Alexandra Seidel (fiction)
- We Inhaled this Wanderlust, Tehnuka (poetry)
Underland Arcana 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue is the cool downdraft that precedes fall. We have seen the towering thunderheads, the churning updrafts that come before the fire, and the dismal quiet that can suffocate us with stillness. Throughout—in spite of it all, perhaps—there are still stories to be heard: stories about seekers, stories about those who are adrift, and stories about how we find our way in unfamiliar landscapes.
Here are stories from Phillip E. Dixon, J. Anthony Hartley, J. V. Gachs, Gerri Leen, Mark Mills, John Klima, Reggie Kwok, Jon Lasser, Daniel Dagris, and Christopher Hawkins.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #393
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #393 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by KJ Kabza and Myna Chang.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 96 (October 2023)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales, and anything and everything in between. FANTASY is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader-we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Welcome to Issue #96 of FANTASY! In this issue, we’ll say our fond farewells with short stories by Ruoxi Chen (“Fandom for Witches”) and P.A. Cornell (“Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont”); flash fiction by Sonia Sulaiman (“Negative Theology of the Child From ‘The King of Tars'”) and Wen Yu Yang (“Homecoming”); plus poetry by Joshua Effiong and Adesiyan Oluwapelumi and a feature essay by PH Low.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 161 (October 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 161 of LIGHTSPEED! This month we’re serializing A.L. Goldfuss’s SF novelette “Where the God-Knives Tread.” This two-parter is a delightful mix of mystery, space exploration, and archaeology. We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Void Wyrm’s Guide to Devouring Stars” from AJ Wentz and “Excerpts from a Scientist’s Notebook: Ancestral Memory in Europan Pseudocephalopods” by David DeGraff.
If you’re looking for the recipe to a magical reading experience, don’t miss “Immortality Soup, Or, An Excerpt From the Cookbook of the Gods,” our first fantasy short story of the month, which is written by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe. Jae Steinbacher remixes Little Red Riding Hood in their new story “What You Are and the Wolf.” Our flash includes “A Small God” by Jeff Reynolds and the very magical “Four Self-Care Secrets for a Long and Happy Life” by Tina S. Zhu.
Our book reviewers have been devouring and evaluating new books so they can bring you their monthly array of recommendations. As always, spotlight interviewer Laurel Amberdine has sat down and interviewed our short fiction authors so you can get better insights into their work and their processes. And our ebook readers will also enjoy a book excerpt from Tlotlo Tsamaase’s novel WOMB CITY.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 133 (October 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 #133 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Rachael K. Jones (“The Sound of Children Screaming”) and David Janisch (“The Cello in the Cell”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“Clown Town”) from Dan Stout and a poem (“when you see the dead”) from Frances Ngo. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and an interview with Keith Rosson. Plus, our ebook readers will be treated to a look at the foreword to OUT THERE SCREAMING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW BLACK HORROR edited by Jordan Peele (and our own John Joseph Adams).
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 205
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 October 2023 issue (#205) contains:
* Original fiction by Suzanne Palmer (“Possibly Just About A Couch”), Lavie Tidhar (“The Blaumilch”), Lisa Papademetriou (“Down To The Root”), David Goodman (“Such Is My Idea Of Happiness”), Bella Han (“De Profundis, a Space Love Letter”), Grace Chan (“Post Hacking for the Uninitiated”), Amal Singh (“Rafi”), and Michael Swanwick (“Timothy: An Oral History”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Carrie Sessarego, interviews with Kij Johnson and Margret Helgadottir, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 105
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 October 2023 issue features “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” by Daryl Gregory, “The Streaming Man” by Suzanne Palmer, “Sadness” by Timons Esaias, and “On the Shores of Ligeia” by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
The Dark – Issue 101
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 Destroyer of Small Things” by Tim Waggoner
“Wildflowers” by Eric Schaller (reprint)
“Zoraída la Zorra” by Ana Hurtado
“Domestic Magic (Or Things My Wife And I Found Hidden in Our House)” by Kirsty Logan (reprint)
Flash Fiction Online Issue #121 October 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 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: The Veil of Shadows – Redefining Monsters in Dark Fantasy by Anna Yeatts
To Slay a Goblin by Dylan Curry
The Constellations of Daughter Death by Lyndsey Croal
Saint Woad and Sister Welwitshcia by Katy Boyer
Ursula the Monster by Chelsea Sutton
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 October 2023 (#753)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with John Scalzi and Justina Ireland and spotlights on artist Lauren Raye Snow and The Best of World SF series. News covers the Aurora and Dragon Awards winners, Samantha Mills’s Sturgeon Award win, S.P. Somtow’s Thai National Artist honor, the closure of Cossmass Infinities, and more. Patrick Lucien Price is remembered with an obituary and appreciation. A December/January double issue of Locus is announced. Reviews cover new titles by Kij Johnson, Nicola Griffith, Tobias S. Buckell, Christopher Rowe, Helen Corcoran, Valerie Valdes, Mara Rutherford, Neal Asher, Jesmyn Ward, Melissa Broder, David Connor, Ariel Kaplan, Freya Marske, Cleo Qian, Susan diRende, J.R. Dawson, Hannah Whitten, Julia Fine, S. Jae-Jones, Lauren J.A. Bear, Malka Older, Allan Kaster (ed.), Erin A. Craig, Mark Wheaton, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Octavia Cade, Chuck Tingle, Agustina Bazterrica, Jared Shurin (ed.), Yume Kitasei, John Scalzi, Ben Aaronovitch, Shaun Tan, Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran, Kinuko Y. Craft, Todd Lockwood, Nick Bantock, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner (eds.), and Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes & Marco Finnegan.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Carrie Vaughn and Samuel Chapman and a novella by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 4 (October 2023) contains:
The Deadlands – Issue 29
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 September 2023 issue (#29) of The Deadlands:
khoreo – Volume 3, Issue 3
Tags: No Author Royalties Collectedkhoreo magazine’s Volume 3, Issue 3. Originally published September 15, 2023. Includes three fantastic stories: “Dragonsworn” by L Chan (novelette), “The Blue Glow” by Lisa Hosokawa, and “The Cursing of Herman Willem Daendels” by A. W. Prihandita. Cover and spot art created by Charis Loke.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #391
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #391 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Anaea Lay and Kaitlyn Zivanovich.
Interzone #295
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedINTERZONE #295 features fiction by Seán Padraic Birnie, Rachael Cupp, Frank Dumas, Stephanie Lane Gage, Jendia Gammon, Ai Jiang, Jonathan Laidlow, Edward R. Morris, Nozaki Mado, Katie McIvor, H. Pueyo, Amal Singh, R.L. Summerling, Corey J. White, Aigner Loren Wilson; non-fiction by Gautam Bhatia, Alexander Glass, Kelly Jennings, Paul Kincaid, David Langford, Nick Lowe, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; and art by Carly A-F, Martin Hanford, Emma Howitt, Dante Luiz, Juliana Pinho, Vinayak Varma, and Richard Wagner.