// Adam-Troy Castro
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Jun 25, 2026
The creatures who shared your art with us had to explain many things to make it minimally comprehensible. This by itself made sense. You are who and what you are, and we are who and what we are, and the physical differences between us are profound. We belong to different orders, and this means that our minds are also different, our philosophies ...
// E. Catherine Tobler
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Jul 16, 2026
There’s a wolf where my brother used to be, a beast absolutely hellbent on ruining my life. He plunges his broad snoot into the Wednesday night spaghetti, and neither Mom nor Dad cares when half the bite slides off his nose and onto the table, to later be jostled to the floor by his grabbing, grubby paws. But if I came to the table without washi...
// Ju Chu and S. Qiouyi Lu
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// Jul 1, 2026
1. Lu Yuan’s company was going to go under if he didn’t find an animator with great potential. Torrential rain thundered against the sheet metal roof. Before him sat ten […]
// 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 […]
// Marissa Lingen
// Uncanny Magazine
// Aug 4, 2026