// Scott Dalrymple
// Lightspeed Magazine
// May 7, 2026
A year of living in the ground had not accustomed Moyer to the smell. He wondered how the French, who’d been at this business so much longer, could stand it. But if the officers who had trained his unit in the intricacies of trench life were any indication, they were so weary and battered as to scarcely notice the world around them any longer.
// Grace Chan
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// May 1, 2026
Part 1: 2075 said Aly. Xavi jogged out of his tenement building. He joined the stream of lunchtime runners […]
// Ada Hoffmann
// Lightspeed Magazine
// May 21, 2026
// Summer Brooks
// Escape Pod
// May 28, 2026
// 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...