// Alex Irvine
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Jun 11, 2026
When you look out from the garage doors of the corrugated steel warehouse where the Fort Springwell Community College soccer team made their heroic stand against the forces of darkness, the view at first seems . . . idyllic. A rocky shoreline, uncommon for Florida. Periodically the beam of a lighthouse sweeps across our field of view. Everything...
// Marie Brennan
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Jun 18, 2026
// Beesan Odeh
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Jun 25, 2026
There once lived a boy who paid for a fortune. Nassim wore carob hair and eyes severe like cardamom. He spent his days scouring the souk for unique trinkets he liked to collect or counting the uneven stones of Jerusalem’s cobbled streets as he passed Al-Aqsa Mosque or picking up groceries for his grandmother. He knew it was best to avoid attenti...
// Anne Wilkins
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// Jun 1, 2026
Ashwan To be born in the year 2615 on the 21st of March was fortuitous, but to be born at 14:59:30 hours on that same day made you a God. […]
// Sheri Singerling
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// May 1, 2026
Normally, Tillie didn’t mind being the object of everyone’s gaze. But today, the crowd loitering in the street wasn’t drawn to her orange-red curls or her height or regalness. They […]