// A.M. Maris
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Aug 6, 2026
He called her Legs. “Legs for days,” he’d say, his voice thick with wonder. When he spoke to her, she was filled with a warm, heady feeling that made her purr and rub against him. She had to be careful when she did, because she was still growing into her spikes and she’d already drawn blood more than once. His skin was so flimsy, so tearable. Sh...
// Oyedotun Damilola Muees
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Sep 3, 2026
If every effort to bring down your child’s fever is unsuccessful and the doctors cannot diagnose anything wrong with her, then you should seek other means to alleviate her health. Before you help her into the house, if you notice that her shadow refuses to follow her body, then you should know that her sickness is numinous, and it is beyond what...
// Kaitlyn Zivanovich
// PodCastle
// Jul 7, 2026
// K. J. Khan
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// Jul 1, 2026
It was night on Endymion, and the pollen hovered, blue and luminescent, in the trees. Isaac’s camp lantern also burned blue. It was designed to interfere with the sensory systems […]
// Kailee Pedersen
// Uncanny Magazine
// Sep 1, 2026