- “Little Roundfaced Dogs” by Bernie Jean Schiebeling (fiction)
- “Renfield at His Windowsill” by Courtney Floyd (poem)
- “Scrimshaw” by Stephen James (fiction)
- “With Flesh, He Will Create” by K. L. Mill (fiction)
- “i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs” by Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi (poem)
- “A Bitter Orange Perfume” by H. Pueyo (fiction)
- “Root Myth” by Janna Miller (fiction)
- “The Duchess of Summer tells you” by Melissa Anne Tolentino (poem)
- “Amanita” by Dawn Vogel (fiction)
- “Dinosaur Rider” by Katherine Souza (cover art)
- “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro
- “The Walled Garden” by Fiona Moore
- “Welcome to Kearney” by Gary Kloster
- “Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna
- “Bits and Pieces on This Floor” by Eric Del Carlo
- “A Land Called Folly” by Amal Singh
- “Hunter Harvester” by Bam Bruin
- “Wilderness Resurrection and Compromise” by Priya Sridhar
- “Who Owns A Story: An Interview with Allison King” by Arley Sorg
- “Diverse Bodies: A Conversation with Annalee Newitz” by Arley Sorg
- “Editor”s Desk: Taking a Moment to Smell the Roses” by Neil Clarke
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
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:Ryan Rennik, Scott Roche, Benjamin Chandler
The Dusty Lens: The Otherworld
Uncanny Magazine Issue 65
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July/August 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring all-new short fiction by John Chu, Catherynne M. Valente, Shveta Thakrar, Emma Törzs, Daniel H. Wilson, Jordan Taylor, and A. W. Prihandita; essays by J. R. Dawson, Brandon O’Brien, Charlie Jane Anders, and Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne; poetry by Lora Gray, Shankar Narayan, Avra Margariti, and Prosper C. Ìféányí; interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Daniel H. Wilson by Caroline M. Yoachim; Nilah Magruder’s The Duet as the cover; and an editorial by Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 150
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedApex 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.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL FICTION
My Song at the Conclave of Many Sorrows by Daniel A. Oluremi
A Rare and Exceptional Delicacy by G.M. Mitchell
Orion and His Moon by J.S. Oriel
Black Gold by E.M. Kerkman
FLASH FICTION
What the Crab Apple Tree Near Miranda Spaceport Saw by Elijah J. Mears
Denizens of My Face by Emil Morel
Changeling by Frey Lylark
MO*CON FLASH FICTION WINNERS
Moebius Syndrome by Storm Humbert
As Ephemeral As Bubbles by Akis Linardos
CLASSIC FICTION
A Final Song for the Ages by Pedro Iniguez
Mother Sun by Amy Nagopaleen
EXCERPT
We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford
NONFICTION
Haunt Me Then: The Right Stories Will Haunt Until They Get Their Due by Lyndsie Manusos
Interning for Apex by Veronica J. Gilchrist and Rebecca E. Treasure
REVIEWS
Words for Thought (Short Fiction Review) by A.C. Wise
Book Review of The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina (Rebecca E. Treasure)
INTERVIEWS
Author Daniel A. Oluremi (Marissa van Uden)
Author J.S. Oriel (Marissa van Uden)
Artist Makayla Bounds (Bradley Powers)
Locus July 2025 (#774)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2025 issue of Locus has interviews with Fran Wilde and H.E. Edgmon. News includes the 2025 Locus Awards winners and Locus Poll writeup, as well as the Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards winners, Ignyte and Sturgeon Award finalists, Clarion West’s announcement that it will host in-person summer camps for teens, and much more. The SFWA Nebula Conference and WisCon 47 are covered with reports and photos. Obituaries remember Barry B. Longyear, Al Sarrantonio, Peter David, and Kathleen Bartholomew. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis”. Reviews cover new works by R.F. Kuang, Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Caitlin Starling, Megan E. O’Keefe, Helen Marshall, Irenosen Okojie, Ben Peek, A.R. Capetta, F.T. Lukens, Joan Slonczewski, Elaine Castillo, Geoff Ryman, Alex Gonzalez, Freya Marske, Cherie Priest, Sarah Suk, Collin Armstrong, Beth Revis, C.L. Clark, Carla E. Dash, Neal Asher, and others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #142 July 2025
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFlash Fiction Online’s July 2025 issue asks our readers, “What is sacred?”
Stories this month include:
“Recitations” by Jacob Baugher
“A Concise History of the Goldfish Trade” by Jason Pearce
“To Ashes” by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann
“The Sacred, The Sacrificial” by Kel Coleman
“My flesh, my beating heart, a willing meal that refuses to remember the danger of being eaten” by Deanna J. Valdez, and
“The Harrowing of Hell (Third Circle, Sausage Counter, Contracts Office)” by S.L. Harris.
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.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 25
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 25 (1 Jul) contains:
The Dark – Issue 122
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 four all-new stories:
“Skin and Bones” by Gary McMahon
“No Mirrors Here” by A. Katherine Black
“Window” by Charlie Hughes
“The Sisters” by E.M. Linden
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 226
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 July 2025 issue (#226) contains:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Cover Art
“Alone” by Matt Dixon
Forever Magazine Issue 126
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 July 2025 issue features “Blade and Bone” by Paul McAuley, “Devil in the Dust” by Linda Nagata, and “Blowout” by Wole Talabi. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 50
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLCRW 50: a b&w stapled zine that I’m hoping democracy in the USA will outlast but I am no longer 100% confident it will. 50 issues in 50 years would be pretty good. But, we blew past that at top speed and accomplished 50 in barely 29 years. Why not 25 years hobgoblinned stuck-in-the-2-issues-per-year mindset ask and I’d just like to point out that there were four years in there that I bet they can’t remember either. Four stories, four poems, it has a symmetry that will be ruined when more are added.
This issue’s cover spotlights the writers whose work appeared in the first 49 issues.
Table of Contents
Fiction
S. Woodson, Dog in a Garden
L. H. Adams, The Path to Pembroke
Jessy Randall, Remedial Kissing Class
Guan Un, White Band
Marie Vibbert, The Summer Kids and the Gemini
Shaun Cammack, Graceless Creatures
Notsofiction
Gavin J. Grant, 50 Not Quite Out
Nicole Kimberling, The Limit of Words
Some recent reads
About These Authors
Without Which Support from, &c.
Poetry
Marge Piercy,
Frost on its way south; TV was right for once; The year is new but I am not; One rabbit less
Neile Graham, The Goddess of the Deep Dive; What is Ether and What is Not
Art
Dawn Kimberling, Photo
Cover
Contributors Issues 1–49
Celebrating
Jennifer Hudak’s story from LCRW 48, “The Witch Trap,” is a Nebula Award finalist & will be reprinted in the Best American SF&F; Elwin Cotman (Dance on Saturday) received a Whiting Award; Kij Johnson’s crowdfunder for RiverBank, an RPG, raised more than twice the goal; the UK edition of Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters came out; Kathleen Jennings’ collection Kindling is shortlisted for the Locus & Aurealis Awards.
Masthead & colophon
Made by
Gavin J. Grant
& Kelly Link.
LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | info@smallbeerpress.com | smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed by Paradise Copies. Subscriptions: $28/4 issues (see page 36 of this issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.
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Contents © 2025 the authors. All rights reserved.
Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks authors, artists, readers.
About Yon Authors
Ms. Adams spent several decades in the environmental consulting world. She lives in North Carolina,
where the many effects of climate change are a constant presence. When not writing she stares at trees, and her work has been published in Neither Fish Nor Foul.
Shaun Cammack is a writer from Western North Carolina.
Neile Graham stepped down from writer wrangling for Clarion West Writers Workshop a few years back and is soon to retire from her university day job. She plans to spend her time taking forest and beach walks, writing more poems, and finally completing revisions of the four novels languishing on her computer. See neilegraham.com for more poems and too much info.
Nicole Kimberling has cooked so much food in her lifetime that she’s developed a philosophy around nearly every aspect of it. When she’s not putting hot meals on the table she can be found either running Blind Eye Books or procrastinating until the last possible second to finish her most recent novel. You find her on IG @the_nicole_kimberling
Marge Piercy has published 20 poetry collections, most recently, On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, and seventeen novels including Sex Wars. PM Press reissued Vida, Dance the Eagle to Sleep; and collections The Cost of Lunch, Etc. and My Body, My Life. She has read at over 500 venues here and abroad.
Jessy Randall’s poems and stories have appeared in Asimov’s, LCRW, Nature, and Scientific American. In 2025, MIT will publish her new book, The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is bit.ly/JessyRandall.
Guan Un is an Australian-Chinese writer of speculative fiction based in Sydney. His work has been featured in LeVar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy Vol 2, Strange Horizons, and more. A former theology student and luggage salesman, he lives with his family, a dog named after a tiger, and a non-sentient sourdough starter, and is not currently betrothed to any celestial objects. You can find him at @thisisguan.bsky.social or guanun.com.
Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 90 times in top magazines such as Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and been translated into Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
S. Woodson lives in Virginia and was previously published in LCRW 38. You can find her older Twine games and other work at citrushistrix.itch.io.
On Spec Magazine #132 VOL 35 No 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 35 No 2 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Mary Sanche (“Thinking of You”), Christine Lucas (“His Ninth Pilgrim Soul”), M.L.D.Curelas & Rhonda Parrish (“Mabel’s Creek”), Lorina Stephens (“Penny Dreadful”), John M. Campbell (“Escape From the Urvara”), Joanna Rifkin (“Katabasis”), D.A. Straith (“The Fishwife Who Killed Death”), Jonathan Olfert (“The Knotted Hand”), and Robert Luke Wilkins (“Children of a Bronze Sun”). Poetry by Dave Cherniak (“Typhoid Harry”), Lynne Sargent (“Well Woven”), SheLa Nefertiti Morrison (“Rat-a-TAt-Tat Biofeedback”), M.C Childs (“West Seattle Coin Laundry”), and Jesse Keith Butler (“How I AM Here”). Interview with Rhonda Parrish and M.L. D Curelas by by Roberta Laurie. Cover by O’Driscoll (“Lunar Base”). Editorial by Diane L. Walton. Cartoon and featured ‘bot by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, with photography by Steve Fahnestalk.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #435
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #435 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by KJ Kabza and Betsy Aoki.
Underland Arcana 3-issue Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedUnderland Arcana explores the weird in concert with the imagery and symbolism of the tarot. It is published several times a year (usually in conjunction with an equinox or solstice), and features stories of the strange, tales of the odd, and whimsical whisperings of the weird. Plus the occassional poem or two. Each issue contains at least 25,000 words of new fiction.
Underland Arcana is edited by Mark Teppo.
Underland Arcana 12
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue is a revival, a call to the sweet sweat of the summer celebration. This is the breath of wind that sweeps before the storm, that tells us of things to come and of things that will disappear when we look away. These stories are the seeds and fruits that have lain dormant for some time, and now they are all sprouting.
Here are stories about revenge, stories about justice, stories about what we get when we ask for too much without understanding the triumverate of suggestion, desperation, and denial. And there are stories of loss and sorrow and hope, because the wheel always turns. What was returns, and what is expires. On and on, above and below.
This issue contains stories from Daniel David Froid, Megan Lee Beals, Pen Anderson, Elou Carroll, Basile Lebret, Brian U. Garrison, H. L. Fullerton, Jetse de Vries, Jonathan Wood, Devan Barlow, and Ben Curl.
Apex Magazine Bonus Issue 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis bonus issue of Apex Magazine contains the following content:
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL FICTION
The Swap by Lavie Tidhar
The Hat Rack by Katherine Heath Shaeffer
REVIEWS
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Lavie Tidhar by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Katherine Heath Shaeffer by Marissa van Uden