- The Ferryman, by Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira (fiction)
- The Dead Boy Inside Me, by Angel Leal (poetry)
- Seeing Death: Exploring Dark Omens from Scottish Folklore, by Lyndsey Croal (nonfiction)
- The Greatest Country in the World, by Rafiat Lamidi (poetry)
- Ask a Necromancer: Live From Readercon, by Amanda Downum (nonfiction)
- Next Time, by Sitawa Namwalie (poetry)
- “Forest Season for the Sometime Tree” by Jennifer Shelby (fiction)
- “What Trolls Read” by Mary Soon Lee (poem)
- “Guttation, Transformation” by Devin Miller (fiction)
- “Bashert” by Y. M. Resnik (fiction)
- “The Machine” by Yee Heng Yeh (poem)
- “All the Times I�m Ten” by Ephiny Gale (fiction)
- “The Only Way Out” by Louise Hughes (fiction)
- “My Mother Fears the Vampires” by Julia Yuxuan (poem)
- “Thrifting With the Snow Queen” by M. J. Pettit (fiction)
- Persephone Takes Up the Garnets, Ursula Whitcher (poetry)
- Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down, by Josh Rountree (fiction)
- Driftwood Dead, by D.B. Goman (poetry)
- A Catholic’s Guide to the Afterlife, by Julia LaFond (nonfiction)
- If I Leave You With Moonlight, by Felicia Martínez (poetry)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #390
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Stephanie Burgis and Jonathan Louis Duckworth.
The Deadlands – Issue 28
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 August 2023 issue (#28) of The Deadlands:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #389
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #389 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Rajiv Moté and Zachary Olson.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #388
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #388 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by M.A. Carrick and Peter Darbyshire.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 94 (August 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 #94 of FANTASY! In this month’s issue_we bring you short fiction by Davida Kilgore (“My Dear, My Love”) and Hana Lee (“Bari and the Resurrection Flower”); flash fiction by Joshua Lim (“Voices of Kings”) and B. Pladek (“The Runners”); poetry by Ubong Johnson (“Kumbaya”) and Marie Brennan (“Damnatio Memoriae”); and an essay by A.T. Greenblatt.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 159 (August 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 159 of LIGHTSPEED! Scott Edelman returns to our pages with a new piece of science fiction: “The Letters They Left Behind,” the story of a mother torn between her love for her daughter and her duty to her planet. Lowry Poletti writes about the complexity of relationships, human or not, in the story “In the Nest Beneath the Mountain-Tree, Your Sisters Dance.” Our flash stories include “The Things You Can Maintain Yourself” by Benjamin C. Kinney and “Monopticon” from Dani Atkinson. Our original fantasy shorts include a bloodthirsty tale of dark magic in Sloane Leong’s new story “The Blade and the Bloodwright.” David Anaxagoras mixes faerie with prescribed burns in his short story “The Boy Who Ran from His Faerie Heart.” We also have a flash story (“All the Colours of the Death Knell”) from Russell Hemmell, and another (“You Will Not Live to See M/M Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension”) from Isabel J. Kim. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team. Our ebook readers will also enjoy a book excerpt from Katy Rose Pool’s new novel, GARDEN OF THE CURSED.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 131 (August 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 #131 of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Nuzo Onoh (“Oyili”) and J. Choe (“The Feed”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You With an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body”) from Adam-Troy Castro and a poem (“Tropical Fish”) from Mark Alpert. 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 screenwriter and author Jamie Flanagan.
Locus August 2023 (#751)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Karen Lord and Anna-Marie & Elliott McLemore. News covers the 2023 Hugo Awards ballot, SF&F Hall of Fame inductees, Sheila Gilbert’s retirement, Irene Gallo’s departure from Tor, and the Shirley Jackson, Kitschies, and Prometheus awards winners. Reports include StokerCon, BayCon, the 2023 Locus Survey results, and more. This year’s Locus Awards Weekend is covered with a full report and photos. Alan Arkin and Nicky Singer are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Lauren Beukes, Wole Talabi, Christopher Priest, T. Kingfisher, Nghi Vo, Shelley Parker-Chan, Cat Rambo, R.J. Barker, Melissa Scott, E.G. Condé, Isabel Cañas, Tananarive Due, Chloe Gong, Lina Rather, Kell Woods, Hilary Leichter, Molly Lynch, Yukimi Ogawa, Sara Flannery Murphy, Kika Hatzopoulou, Alex Woodroe (ed.), Danielle Trussoni, Martin MacInnes, Kit Whitfield, Daniel M. Ford, Eugen Bacon (ed.), Sue Burke, and many others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #119 August 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 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: Stories of Change by Anna Yeatts
Let the Field Burn by M. C. Banner Dixon
Nancy Shreds the Clouds by Phoenix Alexander
Little Fish, Big Fish by Jennifer Hudak
Of Tales and Dreams by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar; Translated by Aysel K. Basci
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 99
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 Changing Dust” by James Bennett
“Thirty-Two Tumbling Teeth” by Neil Williamson (reprint)
“The Rituals of Bathing” by Libby Cudmore
“Into the River” by Clara Madrigano (reprint)
Forever Magazine Issue 103
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 2023 issue features “The Contrary Gardener” by Christopher Rowe, “There Used to Be Olive Trees” by Rich Larson, and “Trapping the Pleistocene” by James Sarafin. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 203
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 2023 issue (#203) contains:
* Original fiction by Stephen Case (“Every Seed is a Prayer (And Your World is a Seed)”), Thomas Ha (“Window Boy”), Andy Dudak (“Light Speed Is Not a Speed”), Congyun ”Muming” Gu (“Who Can Have the Moon”), M. J. Pettit (“Empathetic Ear”), Marisca Pichette (“Gel Pen Notes from Generation Ship Y”), and Koji A. Dae (“Resistant”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Priya Sridhar, interviews with Emma Mieko Candon and Joshua Glenn, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 2 (August 2023) contains:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #387
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #387 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Kay Chronister and Julie Reeser.
The Deadlands – Issue 27
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 July 2023 issue (#27) of The Deadlands:
On Spec Magazine #124 VOL 33 No 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 33 No 2 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Rob Gordon (“Second Sight”), Douglas Smith (“Oregon Shooters”), Brian D. Hinson (“Warden Trees”), Brittany Amos (“Hairstyles for the Apocalypse”), Quinn J. Graham (“The Necessity of a Shepherd”), Marie Brennan (“Your Body, My Prison, My Forge”), Peter G. Reynolds (“Me, Myself and I: the Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer”), Christopher Scott (“The Hidden Heart of Brass Attending”), and Colleen Anderson (“To Kill a Gorgon”). Poetry by Colleen Anderson (“They Each Pursued Beauty”), Pamela Yuen (“The Story”), Swati Chavda (“Mindspeed to Yesterday’s Photons”), and Maria Zoccola (“Orion Conquers the Sky”). Interview with Brittany Amos by Roberta Laurie. Cover by Scott B. Henderson. Interview with Scott B. Henderson by Cat McDonald. Editorial by Susan MacGregor. Cartoon and featured ‘bot by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, with photography by Steve Fahnestalk.