- “The Tale of MIRP and the Deepest, Darkest, Well” by Rachael K. Jones (fiction)
- “Whale Fall” by Liz J. Bradley (poem)
- “Three Cats, at the End of the World” by Aimee Ogden (fiction)
- “To Free A Bird, Trapped” by Rukman Ragas (fiction)
- “Cooking Tutorial ASMR — soft spoken — beef shank” by A.Z. Louise (poem)
- “The Forest Has No Immediate Plans to Kill You” by Rex Burrows (fiction)
- “Ways of Love for Three-Hearted Creatures” by Rachel Sudbeck (fiction)
- “Last sanctuary” by Marisca Pichette (poem)
- “In the Fire of Her Eyes” by Ryan Cole (fiction)
- “When There Are Two of You: A Documentary” by Zun Yu Tan
- “Child of the Mountain” by Gunnar De Winter
- “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak
- “The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe” by Tia Tashiro
- “Beyond Everything” by Wang Yanzhong
- “Autonomy” by Meg Elison
- “Do Termites Celebrate Holidays?” by Priya Sridhar
- “Finishing the Read: A Conversation with Diana M. Pho” by Arley Sorg
- “Humbled By Love: A Conversation with LaShawn M. Wanak” by Arley Sorg
- “Editor’s Desk: 2024 in Review” by Neil Clarke
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume One Issue Six
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Dirty Magick Magazine
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: Jennifer Jeanne McArdle, Michael M. Jones, J.S. Rodgers
The Dusty Lens: The Witchmaker
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #425
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #425 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Nne Ukwu & Somto Ihezue and Maya Chhabra.
The Deadlands – Issue 37
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Farmer brushes their thumb across the blade and deems it sharp enough. Back onthe ground, amongst the crop, the soft metal reflects a ghostly blue. Ghosts are always blue, aren’t they? In the same way that the plague is black and the whale is white and the Scythe is long and looming. Some type of truth that is not a reality.
The Scythe and Other Simple Mechanisms
, T.E.Z. Moore
You keep your tools ready, sharp. You never know when the sport will call for it. The river awaits, the river also requires the blade. How do we sever this life from that life? How do we cut that which we cannot see? Our ancestors tell us: we cannot. The thread is always there, the path is always followed, and you—you linger in every hollow, saturating the air with every sweep of the blade.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #424
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #424 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Samuel Jensen and Anaea Lay and cover art by Erin Costello.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 62
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January/February 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rati Mehrotra, and AnaMaria Curtis. Essays by Nicholas Whyte, Ai Jiang, A.T. Greenblatt, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Kaliee Pedersen, Mari Ness, Shankar Narayan, and E. N. Díaz, interviews with Scott Lynch and Rati Mehotra by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Maxine Vee, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 148
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 148 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
One by One by Lindz McLeod
Jackie and Xīng Forever by Wil Magness
A Ten Thousand Year Survey Into Seven Stomachs of an Ishta by Allison Thai
I found an old god in the woods by Monte Lin
FLASH FICTION
Halfway Alive, Halfway Living by Colton Kekoa Neves
Someone to Feed You by Abigail Kemske
CLASSIC FICTION
Rage Against the Venting Machine by Russell Nichols
Notes From a Pyre by Amal Singh
NONFICTION
A Keening for Churile by Zin E. Rocklyn
The City is Breathing: Solarpunk Noir. Please Don’t Call it Cyberpunk by Rob Cameron
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise
Book Review: Roanne Lau’s The Serpent Called Mercy by Leah Ning
Book Review: Sam Asher’s Really Shockingly Bad Things and Other Stories by Leah Ning
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Lindz McLeod by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Allison Thai by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Cover Artist Vibhav Singh by Bradley Powers
Reckoning 9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedReckoning 9, edited by C.G. Aubrey, Priya Chand, and Catherine Rockwood, is our guidebook to the ongoing global collapse. Join us, and find the tools you need to weather, persist, and resist. “We will sing louder. We sing to be heard, but also to say we hear you. We have not and we will not forget you.” —Abbie Goldberg, “How to Get Away with Chaining Myself to my Friends in Front of Heavy Duty Machinery” Featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and art by Dante Luiz, Abbie Goldberg, Diem Okoye, M?rio Coelho, William Woolfitt, Talitha May, ?de Hennessy, Sofia Ezdina, E. L. Mellor, Purbasha Roy, Aden Albert, Lee Nash, Maud Powell, Holly Lyn Walrath, E.M. Linden, Solomon T. Hamza, Abi Stevens, Marianna Ariel ColesCurtis, Offor Chidera, A.P. Golub, Ellen K. Fee, Siobhon Rumurang, Allison Whittenberg, Bethany Fine, Jacqueline St.Pierre, Leah Bobet, S.L. Harris, Christian Lozada, Jacob Coffin, EC Dorgan, D. Arifah, Laura McKnight, Jacqueline Roberti, August Cao, and T.K. Rex.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 19
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 19 (January 2025) contains:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #423
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #423 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marie Croke and S.L. Harris and cover art by Erin Costello.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 176 (January 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 176 of LIGHTSPEED! Sometimes science fiction interrogates the far future of humanity, and sometimes it speaks to what might happen next week. Our original short stories this month straddle this divide. We kick off the month with “Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness” by B. Pladek, which wrestles with the potential effects of generative AI on literature and education. It feels like it could have come out of tomorrow’s news. Meanwhile, Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko’s new story, “Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster,” is about interstellar space exploration-still the stuff of the far future . . . for now. We also have two exciting new flash pieces: “The Exquisite Pull of Relentless Desire” from Will McMahon and “After the God Has Moved On” by Kate Elliott.
For fantasy shorts, we have “Bone and Marrow, Woven Into Song” by Neon Yang, a story about the intersection of magic, technology, religion, and . . . fungi. Marika Bailey also brings us fiction about something you might associate with dinner: “Chickenfoot Soup.” But this soup is a heady broth filled with magic and tough relationships-and a visit from Baba Yaga! We also have two riveting flash stories, including the thought-provoking “A Heap of Petrified Gods” by Adelehin Ijasan (a meditation on the immigrant experience) and Vijayalaxmi Samal’s “I Eat the Sky For Us,” an eloquent allegory about life with a harmful parent.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 148 (January 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 #148 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Katharine Tyndall (“The Morning Room”) and Leyla Hamedi (“Karabasan”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“They Bought a House”) from Osahon Ize-Iyamu and a poem (“Annihilation of Red”) from Anuel Rodriguez. For nonfiction, we have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors. We also have an incredible interview with independent filmmaker Toby Poser.
Locus January 2025 (#768)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee and Tobi Ogundiran and a spotlight on artist Ethan Price. Main stories include the last Kitschies Awards winners, Percival Everett’s National Book Awards win, the conclusion of the Internet Archive case, and more. People and publishing covers news about Isabel Allende, Ken Liu, Kosoko Jackson, Adam Cesare, Ai Jiang, Sarah Gailey, and many others. Obituaries remember Trent Zelazny and Anand Vaidya. Reviews cover new titles by Nick Newman, Mary G. Thompson, Amal El-Mohtar, Cory Doctorow, Stefan Ekman, Olivia Waite, Katherine Addison, Lois McMaster Bujold, Grady Hendrix, Leyna Krow, Eliza Clark, Julia Armfield, Hiromi Kawakami, Ali Smith, Erin K. Wagner, Jordan Shiveley, Sofia Ajram, J.S. Breukelaar, M.L. Rio, Brian Evenson, H.G. Parry, Maiga Doocy, Beth Revis, Makana Yamamoto, Allan Kaster (ed), Gautam Bhatia, and others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #136 January 2025
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFor the January 2025 issue of Flash Fiction Online, we invited Carina Bissett to guest edit a collection of winter folklore. Reading this issue is the perfect way to spend a couple hours bundled up inside on a cold day.
Stories this month include:
“A Promise of Persimmons” by Allison Pang
“The Heartbreaker’s Apprentice” by Catherine George
“The Northerner’s Tale” by Jason P. Burnham
“Spoon, Fork, Knife” by Daniel Roop
“The Hag of Beinn Nibheis” by M. R. Robinson
“Moist Breath of a Cold Stranger” by KT Wagner, and
“The Ice Cutter’s Daughter and Her Looking Glass” by Nadia Born
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 116
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:
“Four Questions with Something Like God” by Carlie St. George
“In the Blue Room” by Orrin Grey (reprint)
“Lost You Again” by Ian Rogers
“Coffin Dancing” by Chris Kuriata (reprint)
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 220
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 January 2025 issue (#220) contains:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Cover Art
“Landscape Painter” by Alex Rommel
Forever Magazine Issue 120
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 January 2025 issue features “Covenant” by Elizabeth Bear, “Optimist Cleaver’s Last Transmission” by J. C. Hsyu, “The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees” by John Barnes, and “Ambiguity Machines: An Examination” by Vandana Singh. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.