// Brooke Bolander
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Aug 13, 2026
Lise’s personas have no warning when the XexlCo Construct appears at the gate of her memory garden, smiling cheerfully at each of her personas in turn like a neighborhood milkman making his daily rounds. They watch the newcomer saunter by with open curiosity, moving aside to let him pass as though he’s a regular guest in Lise’s subconscious. The...
// Sanjana Raj
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Sep 17, 2026
Asha is eight pages into the book before the words disappear. There are still hundreds of pages before the end of the book, so they must have had a record of the length of the volume, but lost the text. It’s a common experience in this library, to encounter fragments of things, to have to make educated assumptions about what once was.
// Scott Andrews
// Beneath Ceaseless Skies
// Aug 6, 2026
By Richard Parks in Issue #463 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine “Meaning humans have souls, if not physical immortality. Snake-devils have neither. From my point of view, I am trading lead for gold in what I teach versus what I learn. If this is betrayal, may you always be traitor to me.” I wasn’t so certain about the “lead for gold” a...
// E. A. Bourland
// Uncanny Magazine
// Aug 4, 2026
// A.D. Sui
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// Sep 1, 2026
We’re ten and watching what must be the last physical television in what must be the last laundromat in the world. Your mom is on her third load, jeans this […]