Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #386

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    Issue #386 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Rita Oakes and Thomas M. Waldroon.

    Uncanny Magazine Issue 53

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    The July/August 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

    Featuring new fiction by Daniel H. Wilson, R.S.A. Garcia, Steph Kwiatkowski, Lee Mandelo, Natalia Theodoridou, Lavie Tidhar, and Vajra Chandrasekera. Reprint fiction by C.L. Polk. Essays by Del Sandeen, Lizbeth Myles, Suzanne Walker, and Natania Barron, poetry by Beth Cato, Emily Jiang, Sodïq Oyèkànmí, and Valerie Valdes, interviews with R.S.A. Garcia and Lee Mandel by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Elaine Ho, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

    Apex Magazine Issue 139

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    Strange. 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 139 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.

    EDITORIAL
    Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner

    ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
    The Monster Fucker Club by A.V. Greene
    Dolly Girl by Christopher Rowe
    Island Circus by Amal Singh
    But I Loved You by Sachiko Ragosta
    The Discarded Ones by Linda Niehoff
    The Magazine of Horror by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

    FLASH FICTION
    Gim of P by Benjamin DeHaan
    You and Me and The End by Mona West

    CLASSIC FICTION
    A Young Zombie in Crisis by Walidah Imarisha
    You Without Me by Endria Isa Richardson

    NONFICTION
    Outside of Language: Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal by Andrea Johnson
    Renfield: Blood is the Life (But Only if Necessary) by Rich Hipson

    INTERVIEWS
    Interview with Author A.V. Greene by Marissa van Uden
    Interview with Author Sachiko Ragosta by Marissa van Uden
    Interview with Cover Artist Lauren Raye Snow by Bradley Powers

    Fantasy Magazine, Issue 93 (July 2023)

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    FANTASY 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 #93 of FANTASY! In this month’s issue of Fantasy Magazine we bring you short fiction by Simo Srinivas (“Bozpo Witch-Bane”) and Margaret Jordan (“Blue”); flash fiction by Kimberly Terasaki (“The World is Ending Tomorrow”) and Catherine Yu (“The Dancer”); poetry by H.B. Asari (“After the Pyre”) and Julia August (“The End of Little Dreams”); and an interview with this year’s finalists for the Nebula Award for Short Fiction.

    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 158 (July 2023)

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    LIGHTSPEED 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 158 of LIGHTSPEED! We’re kicking off this month with a short story by JB Park, “Six Months After All Life on Titan Died,” that takes the idea of ChatGPT and imagines what we’ll do with it in the distant future. If you loved the Ents and the Entwives in The Lord of the Rings, you’ll definitely enjoy Ashok Banker’s new SF short “The Bodhi Tree Asks Only For The Safe Return Of Her Beloved,” told from the perspective of, well, a tree! We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Death Is Better” from Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and “The United Systems Goodwill Concert Series and the Greatest Performance of All Time” by James Van Pelt. Our fantasy shorts include “Starpoop,” by Sandra McDonald, a meditation on dementia and social media fame. We also have a new story by Isha Karki: “Muna in Barish,” the story of a young writer struggling against discrimination. We also have a flash story (“The Real Worlds”) from Lauren Bajek, and another (“Monsters of the Drunken Shore”) from Nic Anstett. We also have an excerpt of THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei.

    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 130 (July 2023)

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    NIGHTMARE 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 #130 of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Isha Karki (“Sell Your Trauma for Salvation”) and Adam R. Shannon (“First in Fear and Then in Pain”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“Anatomy of a Haunted House”) from Avi Burton and a poem (“Why Are You Haunted?”) from Joan Tierney. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a special review column from Adam-Troy Castro.

    Flash Fiction Online Issue #118 July 2023

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    The July 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 Realms Left Unseen by Anna Yeatts

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    Dave the Terrible by Brent Baldwin

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    When the Forest Comes to You by E. M. Linden

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    Patrice by Meredith Gordon

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    Café Negro by Julian Riccobon

     

    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 July 2023 (#750)

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    The July 2023 issue of Locus has interviews with Ann Leckie and Kemi Ashing-Giwa. News covers the 2023 Locus Awards winners, the Bram Stoker and Aurealis Awards winners, AI writing news and more, including additional awards updates from the Clarke, Sturgeon, Ignyte, Asimov’s Readers’, and Analog AnLab awards, and others. Reports include SF in India, WisCon 46, and the Locus Poll 2023 writeup. Obituaries remember Cormac McCarthy, Nick Wood, Rajnar Vajra, Frances Collin, and Phillip Mann. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “SF Doesn’t Predict, It Contests”. Reviews cover new titles by P. Djèlí Clark, Cadwell Turnbull & Josh Eure (eds.), Kalynn Bayron, Connie Willis, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Indra Das, Cory Doctorow, Gene Wolfe, Michael Swanwick, Aubrey Wood, Lisa L. Hannett, Izumi Suzuki, Luna McNamara, Aimee Ogden, Jennifer Saint, Emma Törzs, Sara Herchenroether, Cassandra Khaw, Jessica Johns, Andrea Hannah, KC Jones, Quinn Connor, Lily Meade, Rowenna Miller, Sarah Coolidge (ed.), Pim Wangtechawat, Temi Oh, and others.

    The Dark – Issue 98

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    Each 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:

    “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak” by Sam J. Miller
    “Gavin’s Field” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
    “A Ritual for Pleasure and Atonement” by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)
    “Red Red Rose, Bare Bare Bones” by Françoise Harvey

    Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 202

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    Clarkesworld 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 July 2023 issue (#202) contains:

    * Original fiction by Marie Vibbert (“Cheaper to Replace”), Lou J Berger (“Death and Redemption, Somewhere Near Tuba City”), Bo Balder (“Estivation Troubles”), Brenda W. Clough (“Clio”s Scroll”), Risa Wolf (“Tigers for Sale”), Davian Aw (“Timelock”), Alexandra Seidel (“What Remains, the Echoes of a Flute Song”), and Kelsea Yu (“The Orchard of Tomorrow”).

    * Non-fiction includes an article by Carrie Sessarego, interviews with Yukimi Ogawa and Aimee Ogden, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

    Forever Magazine Issue 102

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    Forever 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 July 2023 issue features “A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime” by Charlie Jane Anders, “Quantifying Trust” by John Chu, and “Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars” by Mercurio D. Rivera. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

    The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2023

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    The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers:

    • compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock, and many others;
    • the science fiction field’s most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films, and Science;
    • humor from our cartoonists and writers.

    For more information and to sample some of our articles, Please visit our web site.

    Novellas

    A Half-Remembered WorldAimee Ogden

    Novelets

    The Very Nasty AquariumPeter S. Beagle

    Short Stories

    Approved Methods of Love Divination in the First-Rate City of DushagorodKristina Ten
    Vanishing PointRJ Taylor
    The Pet of OlodumareJoshua Uchenna Omenga and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
    Serenity PrayerFaith Merino
    We Go on Faith AloneK. S. Walker
    Little BirdJill McMillan
    Gather Me a TreasureJordan Chase-Young
    NPC (or Eight Haxploits to Maximuize Your Endgame Farming: A Player’s Guide)DaVaun Sanders
    A Meal for FredrickNick Thomas
    The Day of the SeaJennifer Hudak
    What to Do When a Protagonist Visits Your Generic VillageDan Peacock
    Pedestals, Proclivities, and PerpetuitiesCeleste Rita Baker
    A Time to SingEddie D. Moore
    The Giant’s DreamBeth Goder

    Poems

    How to Pack for a QuestMary Soon Lee
    Lost Lines from Ariel’s SongGretchen Tessmer

    Departments

    Editorial: Waves On WavesSheree Renée Thomas
    Books To Look ForCharles de Lint
    Musing on BooksMichelle West
    BooksElizabeth Hand
    Plumage From Pegasus:Paul Di Filippo
    I, For One, Welcome Our New    
    Insect Litterateurs    
    Coming Attractions    
    Competition #105    
    By The Numbers 8Arley Sorg
    Science: FireworksJerry Oltion
    CuriositiesCarol Cooper

    CARTOONS: Arthur Masear, S. Harris, Mark Heath, Nick Downes.

    COVER BY MONDOLITHIC STUDIOS

    Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 1

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    Small Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 1 (July 2023) contains:

    • “CoverLetter_Version5” by Courtney Floyd (fiction)
    • “The Beauty of Monsters” by Angela Liu (poem)
    • “Our Days of Tear-Stained Glass” by Avra Margariti (fiction)
    • “The Last Goodbye in the City of Electric Longing” by A. M. Guay (fiction)
    • “Not Set in Stone” by Gerri Leen (poem)
    • “Funearary Tea” by Anne Leonard (fiction)
    • “Interstitial Void Transit” by Jeremy Pak Nelson (fiction)
    • “dye me with black tooth color” by Devin Miller (poem)
    • “Sunnyside Daycare Employees� Chat Log, Post Alien Takeover” by Amanda Helms (fiction)

    khoreo – Volume 3, Issue 2

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    khoreo magazine’s Volume 3, Issue 2. Originally published June 30, 2023. Includes six fantastic stories: “The Abode of the Palms” by Karim Kattan, “Sartor” by Tanvir Ahmed, “Umeboshi” by Rebecca Nakaba, “Come Back, Crocodile Bird” by M. S. Dean, “Memories of Memories Lost” by Mahmud El Sayed, and “Kwong’s Bath” by Angela Liu. Cover and spot art created by Sabaa Bismil.

    Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #385

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    Issue #385 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Kel Coleman and Portia Elan.

    The Deadlands – Issue 26

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    The 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 June 2023 issue (#26) of The Deadlands:

    • bonelight, Lucas Enne (poetry)
    • There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead, by Sarah Pinsker
    • Be Like Sesame, by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
    • Behiihoo, by Sunnie Smith-Ishtimonabi’
    • Ask a Necromancer, by Amanda Downum
    • Death Is a Diner at 3:00 a.m., by A.C. Wise
    • Questions and Answers, by Zaynab Bobi