// Yoon Ha Lee
// Lightspeed Magazine
// May 14, 2026
The typewriter proved, at first glance, to be a poor investment for a daring aerial escape. Kallista had been drawn to the typewriter from the moment she viewed it languishing in a Museum of Curioddities, a pun that 3% of Pennon City’s citizens might appreciate, if one rounded to the nearest human. The jury was out as to whether the placard’s se...
// Christopher Barzak
// Lightspeed Magazine
// May 28, 2026
On a wooded hillside outside Pittsburgh, where the rivers braid together and the bridges flash yellow in the sun, there stands an old private school no one ever remembers enrolling in. Ivy grips its cracked bricks. Moss blurs the leaded windows. To almost anyone looking, it appears abandoned. Unless they are the newly dead. If that is the case, ...
// Summer Brooks
// Escape Pod
// May 28, 2026
// Nick Wolven
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// May 1, 2026
1 Mayzelle hurried from her hab-hut, tacked shut the canvas door, and hustled down the bamboo steps. She’d sworn she wouldn’t stand for this anymore. She’d sworn. In the clearing, […]
// Scott Andrews
// Beneath Ceaseless Skies
// May 28, 2026
By AnaMaria Curtis in Issue #458 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The ambassador takes a bite of her fish. It rolls across her tongue, rich and sweet with the barest hint of salt. It is not the flavor that she savors. She can feel the burst of energy from it almost immediately, can feel her mind sharpening with every bite. Her butcher ...