Nightmare Magazine, Issue 127 (April 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 127 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Natasha King (“Root Canticle”) and James Tatam (“Jumper”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“Delicate Webbing”) from Beatrice Winifred Iker and a creative essay (“A Piece of Paper, Burned”) from Maria Haskins. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a new critical review in our “de_crypt_ed” review series.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #115 April 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 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: What Counts as Consent? by Emma Munro
Fae Magic on a Friday Night by Sheila Massie
Grin Minus Cat by Rich Larson
Gently Creaking Boards by Kat Day
We Are Not Phoenixes by John Wiswell
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 95
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“The Faceless, The Watch Guard, and Sugar” by Bibiana Ossai
“Fish Scales” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“Town Z” by Ash Caballero
“Hand-Me-Down” by Sean Padraic Birnie (reprint)
Locus April 2023 (#747)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Charlie Jane Anders and Ray Nayler and a spotlight on artist Eli Minaya, plus the 2022 Year in Review book summary. News includes the 2022 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, the SFWA Awards winners, the BSFA and Aurealis shortlists, and much more. Boskone 60 is covered with a report and photos. Christopher Fowler, John Jakes, Valerie Smith, John Teehan, Kenzaburo Oe, and Dave Pether are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Nina Allan, Theodora Goss, James Tiptree, Jr., James Morrow, T. Kingfisher, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, Arkady Martine, Jack McDevitt, J.S. Dewes, H.G. Parry, Jinwoo Chong, Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ, Marie Hélène Poitras, Juan Martinez, Lee Mandelo, Jaroslav Kalfař, H.S. Valley, Ai Jiang, Brittany N. Williams, Ness Brown, Christopher Golden, Johnny Compton, Kristin Cashore, Heather Fawcett, Lauren Blackwood, Gareth L. Powell, Mia Tsai, Tobi Ogundiran, and others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 199
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 April 2023 issue (#199) contains:
* Original fiction by L Chan (“Re/Union”), Andrea Kriz (“There Are the Art-Makers, Dreamers of Dreams, and There Are Ais”), R.T. Ester (“Rake the Leaves”), Nick Thomas (“Keeper of the Code”), Octavia Cade (“Happiness”), Gregory Feeley (“Stranger Shores”), Shi Heiyao (“The Librarian and the Robot”), and Rajan Khanna (“Voices Singing in the Void”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Priya Sridhar, interviews with Han Song, Michael Berry, and the team behind the Life Beyond Us anthology, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 99
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 April 2023 issue features “The Realms of Water” by Robert Reed, “Wild Geese” by Lavie Tidhar, and “Forger Mr. Z” by Chen Qiufan. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #379
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #379 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Martin Cahill and A.G. Lamar.
khoreo – Volume 3, Issue 1
Tags: No Author Royalties Collectedkhoreo magazine’s Volume 3, Issue 1. Originally published March 15, 2023. Includes five fantastic stories: “The Field Guide for Next Time” by Rae Mariz; “For However Long” by Thomas Ha; “The Land of Happiness” by Laura Wang; “The Shadow and the Light” by Su-Yee Lin; “In April, the Dead” by Natalia Theodoridou. Cover and spot art created by The Creeping Moon.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #378
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #378 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Grace Seybold and V.M. Ayala.
Weird Horror 6
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!
Underland Arcana 9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue arrives with the first breath of spring. The first thaw, perhaps. Definitely in time for that first kiss—that first blush of awareness. This issue contains stories about what we hold on to after love leaves us, stories about who we wished we could be, stories about the terrible things that haunt us, and stories about the way the rest of the world is haunted. This issue is the one where we reveal the mask beneath the face we were wearing last year.
Here are stories from Fayaway & Hermester Barrington, Daniel David Froid, David Bradley, Jason Washer, Roni Stinger, J. P. Oakes, A. P. Howell, Eric Witchey, Kiya Nicoll, and Erik Kollmer.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 51
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March/April 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Charlie Jane Anders, Kristiana Willsey, AnaMaria Curtis, Delilah S. Dawson, Valerie Valdes, Parlei Rivière, and Ai Jiang. Reprint fiction by Sarah Pinsker. Essays by C.L. Polk, Jeffe Kennedy, Ruthanna Emrys, and Riley Silverman, poetry by Tiffany Morris, Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi, Betsy Aoki, and Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, interviews with Kristiana Willse and Delilah S. Dawson by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Nilah Magruder, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison.
Apex Magazine Issue 136
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedStrange. 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 136 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
Over Moonlit Clouds by Coda Audeguy-Pegon
Beautiful Poison in Pastel by Beth Dawkins
Unboxing by Lavie Tidhar
The State Street Robot Factory by Claire Humphrey
After the Twilight Fades by Sara Tantlinger
The Words That Make Us Fly by S.L. Harris
FLASH FICTION
Every Shade of Healing by Taryn Frazier
Reproduction on the Beach by Rich Larson
CLASSIC FICTION
Destiny Delayed by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
They Could Have Been Yours by Joy Baglio
NONFICTION
Traveling Beyond Europe’s Walls by Paul Weimer
Write Me a Story Without Words by Emmy Jackson
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Coda Audeguy-Pegon by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author S.L. Harris by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Cover Artist Lenka Šimečková by Bradley Powers
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #377
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #377 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Stephanie Malia Morris and Pooja Peravali.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 89 (March 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.
In this issue’s short fiction, P.H. Low takes craft to the extreme in “The Will of the God of Music,” and Effie Sieberg’s “There’s Magic in Bread” connects lessons of the past to the problems of the present; in flash fiction, Mari Ness takes a hard-hitting look at current magical trends in “Enchanted Mirrors Are Making a Comeback. That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing,” and in Aimee Ogden’s “Moments of Doubt” an absence of evidence leaves us guessing about the fate of the evidently absent; in poetry, we have “The Distance Between Us” by Rati Mehrotra and “Possession” by Tonya Liburd. Plus an interview with the author of The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, and Lone Women, Victor LaValle.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 154 (March 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 154 of LIGHTSPEED! If you discovered a way to pull material from other versions of our world, what would you want to grab? Cash? Treasure? Board games? Well, we have an original science fiction story by Daniel H. Wilson-“Crystalline”-with just that situation. You’ll have to read it to find out what the characters go looking for! We’re happy to have Peter Watts return with a new short story called “Contracting Iris.” If you like your SF with a side of unsettling epidemiology, this story will definitely tickle your fancy. We also have two terrific flash pieces: “One Pinch, Two Pinch” from Beth Goder and “Four Years Minus Twelve Days” by Samantha Murray. Oyedotun Damilola Muees brings us a climate fantasy story (“The Chosen Six”) rich with original solutions for our planet’s biggest troubles. We also have a new short story from Benjamin Peek (“The Ministry of Saturn”), which features an organization specializing in the strange and supernatural. We also have a flash story (“Every Little Change”) from Aimee Ogden, and another (“Our Exquisite Delights”) from Megan Chee. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.