- “In Which the Minotaur Just Wants to Get Out of the Labyrinth, Dammit” by Nadia Born (fiction)
- “Interstellar Catalog: Death Penalty” by Shana Ross (poem)
- “In Crimson, In Moonlight” by Stefan Alcalá Slater (fiction)
- “A Feast for Mandrakes” by Jennifer Mace (fiction)
- “Ars Poetica with Ecology” by Gospel Chinedu (poem)
- “A Widow’s Field Guide to Fungi” by Marissa van Uden (fiction)
- “A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market” by M.R. Robinson (fiction)
- “All the wayward angels” by Tara Campbell (poem)
- “There are Seventeen Kinds of Smile” by Pete Lead (fiction)
- “Emily of Emerald Starship” by Ng Yi-Sheng
- “If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow” by Claire Jia-Wen
- “In the Shells of Broken Things” by A. T. Greenblatt
- “The Eighth Pyramid” by Louis Inglis Hall
- “Faces of the Antipode” by Matthew Marcus
- “The Last Lunar New Year” by Derek Künsken
- “The Last to Survive” by Rita Chang-Eppig
- “Outlier” by R.L. Meza
- “Destination: Jupiter” by Andrew Liptak
- “STEM Lesbians in Space! A Conversation with Elizabeth Bear” by Arley Sorg
- “Reality-Breaking Cosmic Stakes: A Conversation with Matthew Kressel” by Arley Sorg
- “Editor’s Desk: Wrapping Back Around to Marketing” by Neil Clarke
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 062
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWhen times are tough, we look to stories. Sometimes our stories do not offer easy answers. Sometimes our stories contain fear and grief and uncertainty and oppression and dark magic and an apocalypse or three. Maybe those stories are what we need when times are tough, when we are scared. They offer us metaphors. They help us with empathy. Maybe, just maybe, they foster hope for better days. At Luna Station, we understand this, and hope very much that this latest batch of Female Fronted Fantastic Fiction does these things for you, as the wheel turns, and we all try to be present, while imagining a kinder future.
In this issue
• “Something Broken, Something New” by Caroline Shea
• “The Family Ghosts” by M. E. Garber
• “Through Glass” by Ziggy Schutz
• “In the Orchard” by Erin K. Wagner
• “Downstairs Neighbor” by H.V. Patterson
• “Melilot Dreams” by EC Dorgan
• “The Alliance” by T.M. Conway
• “This Storm Won’t Miss” by Sally Sultzman
• “Lentils for Breakfast” by Maroon Stranger
• “Mother Maggie” by Rebecca Harrison
• “The Growing Song” by Heather Pagano
• “Silver and Silt” by Lydia O’Donnell
• “The Philosophy of Weeds” by Lesley Hart Gunn
• “The Black Hill” by Keira Reynolds
• “Our Last Celebration” by Susan Webster
• “Fatherhood” by Vrinda Baliga
• “A Bedtime of Fire, Alchemy and Ice” by JM Cyrus
• “Ends and Means” by Ana Wesley
• “Selling Chances” by Louise Hughes
• “Asra’s Magnificent Curio Shop of Clockworks and Cu” by Madalena Daleziou
• “Oathbinder” by L. Fox
Fantasy Magazine Issue 97
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to Issue #97: The Return of FANTASY! This extra-large issue includes short and flash fiction by Seoung Kim, Vanessa Kyn, Sydney Paige Guerrero, and Eden Royce; poetry by Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí and Aishat Yahkub; interviews with Saga Press editor Amara Hoshijo, the 2024 World Fantasy Awards Finalists and Winner, authors Rivers Solomon and Eloghosa Osunde; plus a review of Osunde’s book Necessary Fiction!
Fantasy Magazine 4-Issue Subscription
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.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 181 (June 2025)
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 181 of LIGHTSPEED! One of science fiction’s greatest functions is asking “what if,” and we’ve packed this issue with terrific what-if stories. We’re starting the month with “The Twenty-One Second God,” a new story from Peter Watts asking pointed questions about virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Marissa Lingen delves into the unintentional effects of new technology in her hilarious story “All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt.” And our flash writers continue interrogating reality and technology-Reyes Ramirez explores the horizons of the housing crisis in “Multi-Spatial Apartment Complex Malfunction Results in Body Horror,” and in “See Now the Misfortune of the Thinking Tenax,” Lowry Poletti delves into questions of other minds. Our fantasy stories focus a bit more tightly on relationships and magic. Vanessa Fogg’s new story “When the Faerie King Toured the Human Realm” mixes social media crazes with the faerie world-shining a light on the complex relationships we project upon our favorite content creators. Carrie Vaughn melds international politics with magic and tea in a wonderfully cozy new short, “A Week at the Raven Feather Salon.” We also have a flash story (“Eyes Grown Thick on the World”) from Will McMahon, and another (“My Mother, the Supervillain”) from Benjamin Blattberg.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 153 (June 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 #153 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Ben Peak (“Edgar Addison the Author of Devorer (1862 – 1933)”) and Lindz McLeod (“Here I Go Again”). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem (“Wet Dollars”) from Daniel Oluremi and a flash (“Eleven Songs for Another Lover”) from V.H. Chen. Maria Alexander joins us for the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors. We also have Adam-Troy Castro reviewing the hit film SINNERS.
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume One Issue Ten
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:Vincent H. O’Neil, L.D. Blevins, Rina Song
The Dusty Lens: Strange Days
Flash Fiction Online Issue #141 June 2025
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFlash Fiction Online’s June 2025 issue looks at the habits and cycles we try to break ourselves out of.
Stories this month include:
“The Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone” by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
“Things Elan Reacquainted Himself with After Being Broken Out of His Single-Day Time Loop” by D. A. Straith
“It’s Become a Bit of a Habit” by Elou Carroll
“The Aftertaste” by Julia LaFond
“The Seal Wife” by Madeline White, and
“Skinfluencer” by Zeke Jarvis.
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 121
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 three all-new stories and one reprint:
“The World Under” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Death of Abigail Goudy” by Neil Williamson (reprint)
“We are the Abikus” by Ogochukwu Bibiana Ossai
“The Cephalophore” by Thomas Ha
Locus June 2025 (#773)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2025 issue of Locus has interviews with Akwaeke Emezi and Joan Slonczewski and a spotlight on publisher Beehive Books. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2026. News includes Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize win, Brenda Peynado’s Philip K. Dick Award win, Seattle Worldcon’s AI controversy, the LA Times Book Prize and Otherwise winners, and much more. Norwescon 47 and Hal-Con are covered with reports and photos. Obituaries remember Damien Broderick, Nancy Kilpatrick, Peter Morwood, George Barr, and David Schleinkofer. Reviews include new titles by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Josh Rountree, Auston Habershaw, Yoon Ha Lee, Ruben Reyes Jr., Susanna Kwan, Seth Haddon, John Pistelli, Michael Cisco, Sayaka Murata, Aaron Starmer, Vanessa L. Torres, Jonathan Stroud, Suzanne Collins, Amerie, Madeleine Thien, J.R. Dawson, Agustina Bazterrica, Marie-Helene Bertino, Edward Ashton, Adam Oyebanji, T. Kingfisher, and more.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 24
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 24 (June 2025) contains:
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 225
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 June 2025 issue (#225) contains:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Cover Art
“Azarax” by Marcel Deneuve
Forever Magazine Issue 125
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 June 2025 issue features “Builders of Leaf Houses” by Catherine Wells, “The Justified” by Ann Leckie, and “The Sufficient Loss Protocol” by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #433
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #433 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by André Geleynse and Justin Howe.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #432
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #432 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Grace Seybold and Aaron Perry.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 64
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May/June 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Caroline M. Yoachim, Angela Liu, Anjali Sachdeva, Aliette de Bodard, Delilah S. Dawson, DaVaun Sanders, and Ewen Ma; essays by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Alex Jennings, Tina Connolly, and J.R. Dawson; poetry by Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, Margaret Rhee, Praise Osawaru, and Gospel Chinedu; interviews with Angela Liu and DaVaun Sanders by Caroline M. Yoachim; a cover by Grace P. Fong, and an editorial by Michael Damian Thomas.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 180 (May 2025)
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 180 of LIGHTSPEED! This issue is full of stories turning things on their heads. For example, one of our flash shorts, “Where Are They Now?” by Meg Elison, tells the story of touring the Wonka factory from the perspective of Augustus Gloop, and it’s a wildly different experience than the original! In one of our longer fantasy works, Martin Cahill tells a story (“The Price of Manners”) about a cursed tome with a legacy of death and destruction. But what if all that chaos is a big misunderstanding? Our fantasy fiction continues with a powerful secondary world fantasy: “Ninnagan Says Remember” by Jonathan Olfert, a story of both resistance and redemption. And we have a great flash story (“Shadows on the Pavement”) from R. P. Sand.
Our science fiction shorts include “Rthing It Up: An Oral History,” Gene Doucette’s all-too-human take on an alien invasion. In her story “Through the Machine,” P.A. Cornell dives into the potential impact of AI on film. Given the state of our world today, both of these SF short stories are a little too plausible for comfort-and that’s a great reason to read them both. We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Temporal Displacement of the Graves” from Russell Nichols and “The Meaning We Seek” by Nancy Kress.