- “The Scent of a Thousand Homeless Footsteps” by Carol Scheina (fiction)
- “skeletal arms will sprout” by Isabel Cañas (poem)
- “The Warfighter” by Timothy Quinn (fiction)
- “Sterling Analog Shut Down Kit: Quick Start Guide” by Bret Nelson (fiction)
- “Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind” by Bogi Takács (poem)
- “Backdoor” by Gendel Gento (fiction)
- “A Transhuman Enters a Coffee Shop” by Jon Hansen (fiction)
- “In the Café that was once a Detention Center” by Lillian Tsay (poem)
- “The Darkening” by Anne Wilkins (fiction)
- “Brainstem Disco, 2191” by Angela Liu
- “The Library of the Apocalypse” by Rati Mehrotra
- “We, the Fleet” by Alex T. Singer
- “Descent” by Wole Talabi
- “Oh Time Thy Pyramids” by Ann LeBlanc
- “Proxima One” by Caryanna Reuven
- “Yarn Theory” by Marie Vibbert
- “Symbiosis and Holobionts, or Life Is a Manifold” by Gunnar De Winter
- “Dialogue Only: A conversation with Jane Espenson” by Arley Sorg
- “Inside the Science Fiction Studio: A Conversation with David Barr Kirtley” by Arley Sorg
- “Editor�s Desk: From Unusual Places” by Neil Clarke
- “Bite by Bite and Lie by Lie” by Malda Marlys (fiction)
- “False Beet” by RJ Aurand (poem)
- “Erosion” by Mo Usavage (fiction)
- “Hungry Ghosts” by Miranda Rain (fiction)
- “Tasks for the Mourning, or Flowers as for Flesh” by G.E. Woods (poem)
- “How It Feels to Be Swallowed By A Black Hole” by Gretchen Tessmer (fiction)
- “Jack of All Faces” by Bree Wernicke (fiction)
- “Let It Be Your Call” by Ali Trotta (poem)
- “I GROW” by Addison Smith (fiction)
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 152 (May 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 #152 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Ian Muneshwar (“Beak”) and R. Diego Martinez (“Notes from the Graft Failure”). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem (“Exorcism”) from Cassandra Khaw and a flash (“Blood of the Idugan”) from Lilia Zhang. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors. We also have a “Plumbing the Depths” essay exploring horror novels about witches-written by Stephanie Wytovitch.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 23
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 23 (May 2025) contains:
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume One Issue Nine
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Nine
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:Emmylou Kotze, Vanessa MacLellan, Jayde Holmes
The Dusty Lens: Krull
Locus May 2025 (#772)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2025 issue of Locus has interviews with Guy Gavriel Kay and Rita Woods and a spotlight on agent Lee O’Brien. News includes the 2025 Hugo Awards Ballot, Nicola Griffith’s induction as a SFWA Grand Master, Samantha Mills’s Compton Crook Award win, the BSFA Awards shortlist, the HWA Lifetime Achievement recipients, and more. Photo reports cover the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers & Illustrators of the Future awards, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives”. Obituaries remember L.J. Smith, Kerry Greenwood, and Todd Grimson. Reviews cover new works by Christopher Moore, Premee Mohamed, Pat Murphy, Melissa Scott, Molly O’Neill, Karen Russell, James Bradley, Marie-Helene Bertino, Venessa Vida Kelley, P. Djèlí Clark, Akwaeke Emezi, Liselle Sambury, Claire North, Lincoln Michel, Debbie Urbanski, Oliver K. Langmead & Aliya Whiteley, Bora Chung, Alex Foster, Sylvie Cathrall, Megan Giddings, Darkly Lem, Michel Nieva, Robert Jackson Bennett, Isaac Fellman, Trang Thanh Tran, Constance Fay, Lili Wilkinson, You Yeong-Gwang, Ibi Zoboi, Clive Barker, Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos, and others.
The Dark – Issue 120
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:
“Blunt Teeth” by Margaret Ronald
“One Will Grow to Eat the Other” by Michael Kelly (reprint)
“Apostasy in Fruit” by Moustapha Mbacké Diop
“Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores” by Gemma Files (reprint)
Flash Fiction Online Issue #140 May 2025
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFlash Fiction Online’s May 2025 presents the ouroboros that is birth, death, and rebirth.
Stories this month include:
“Robot, Changeling, Ghost” by Avra Margariti
“Entropy in a Fruit Bowl” by Nicole Mann
“Eight Legs of the Mother Hunted” by Brandon Case
“To Be a Woman Is to Be Without a Name” by Chidera Solomon Anikpe
“Transubstantiation” by Sam W. Pisciotta
“Yes, No, Goodbye” by LeeAnn Perry, and
“Sour Milk” by Phoenix Mendoza.
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.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 224
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 May 2025 issue (#224) contains:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Cover Art
“Jungleman II” by Arthur Haas
Forever Magazine Issue 124
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 May 2025 issue features “The Ghosts of Mars” by Dominica Phetteplace, “Deep Blue Jump” by Dean Whitlock, and “Father” by Ray Nayler. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #431
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #431 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jordan Kurella and Eleanor Elizabeth Fog.
The Deadlands – Issue 38
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLayla rises like a breath in winter from the hollow beneath the black cottonwoods beside the river, shrugging off the blanket of dirt and leaves and centipedes she slept beneath. She should dissipate. She should waver and dissolve. She should ascend and alight. Instead, she starts gathering her bones.
Highway 1, Past Hope,
Maria Haskins
Keep your bones close. Set them in neat lines. The whale bone is connected to the plane bone. The women will not go quietly. The defiant bone is connected to the no bone. The state of things dissolves. A man is remembered by his mountains, not his bones. The lost bone is connected to the memory forest. Are you the rock or are you Sisyphus? The shrimp bone is connected to the bell bone. Make a run—for every border that ensnares you.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #430
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #430 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Thomas Ha and Charlie Valenti.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 179 (April 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 179 of LIGHTSPEED! This month we’re serializing an original SF novelette by Sarah Langan: “Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep?” I won’t give away the plot, but go in knowing that it’s darkly critical of the current state of the world, a little bit heartfelt, and possibly contains a fun smidge of body horror. We think you’ll love it! Our other science fictional work includes two terrific flash pieces: “Meditations from the Event Horizon” from Deborah L. Davitt and “TALK: “The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles” by Dominica Phetteplace. Oyedotun Damilola Muees returns with a story of magic and cruelty in his story “The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy with Tribal Marks on his Face.” Jon Lasser brings us “The Other River,” a blend of relationship drama, travelogue, and dark fantasy. Our flash pieces are both heartbreaking requests for miracles: “To Navigate the Night” by Rich Larson and “The Price of Miracles” by Nigel Faustino. Of course we’ve got author spotlight interviews so you can learn more about our fascinating writers. We also have a round of terrific book reviews. Thanks for joining us for this great issue. It’s full of thought-provoking and heart-tugging stuff-we hope you enjoy!
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 151 (April 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 #151 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Nuzo Onoh (“The Witch-Doctor’s Revenge”) and Neal Auch (“Glory Hole”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash piece (“A Girl Goes on a Date Alone at Night”) from Cynthia Gomez and a poem (“Old Brooklyn Magic”) from Ian Li. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with Nat Cassidy.
Apex Magazine Issue 149
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedApex Magazine is a digital short fiction genre zine with a focus on dark science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
Issue 149 contains the following:
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL FICTION
“Shadows Below Seaway Trains” by Ai Jiang
“I Remember a One-Sided Die” by Francis Bass
“Seven Ribbons” by Beth Goder
“Heart Seeds” by E. Thede
“Lies As the Natural State of Things” by Rich Larson
FLASH FICTION
“To Kill a Language” by Rukman Ragas
“Extenta” by Daniel Roop
“Things the Older Boy Understands” by Sierra Branham
DRABBLE FICTION WINNERS
“As It Comes” by Derek Alan Jones
“Swan Song” by Liam Hogan
“The Fifth Horseman” by Cressida Roe
CLASSIC FICTION
“The Liberation of Brother Buffalo” by Michael Boatman
“The Neighbors by L. Marie Wood
ESSAYS
“Readers & Role-play: Experiencing Your Favorite Stories Through Play” by Semaj Saint Garbutt
“Perfection, And the Bridges Between” by Eugen Bacon
REVIEWS
Words for Thought (Short Fiction Review) by A.C. Wise
Book Review of One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson (Leah Ning)
Book Review of A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang (Leah Ning)
INTERVIEWS
Author Ai Jiang (Marissa van Uden)
Author Francis Bass (Marissa van Uden)
Artist Yorgos Contronis (Bradley Powers)
Locus April 2025 (#771)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Daryl Gregory and S.A. Barnes and a spotlight on Tachyon Publications. News includes the 2024 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, the sale of Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF to Must Read Magazines, and much more. Obituaries and appreciations remember Guy Thomas and Chris Moore. Reviews cover new works by Guy Gavriel Kay, Joe Abercrombie, Nnedi Okorafor, Sofía Rhei, Malka Older, Mur Lafferty, Neon Yang, Alastair Reynolds, Nick Harkaway, Joe Mungo Reed, Paul Kincaid, Ray Nayler, Sayaka Murata, Nina Allan, Channelle Desamours, Neal Shusterman, Kate Elliott, Premee Mohamed, Koji A. Dae, Kell Woods, Sue Lynn Tan, Mary Robinette Kowal, V.E. Schwab, and others.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 22
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 22 (April 2025) contains: