// Rhiannon Rasmussen
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Sep 17, 2026
Ánar’s bootheels echoed on the iron floor. What a groundbreaking honor this ceremony was for a landless tenant like him—joining old house Veivilkas, of the wolf. Such an honor that it made him leaden to think of, made him long for sleep. At the conclusion of the ceremony, he would no longer be merely Ánar from the undercity, scarab-kin, but Ánar...
// E. L. Roseman
// Strange Horizons
// Sep 7, 2026
// Sanjana Raj
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Sep 17, 2026
Asha is eight pages into the book before the words disappear. There are still hundreds of pages before the end of the book, so they must have had a record of the length of the volume, but lost the text. It’s a common experience in this library, to encounter fragments of things, to have to make educated assumptions about what once was.
// R.S.A. Garcia
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// Jul 1, 2026
. . . We interrupt our programming- “ . . . for this incredible announcement. The first one thousand customers get an extra 15 percent off during this holiday weekend and . . . ” “ . . . it’s buy one, […]
// Kaitlyn Zivanovich
// PodCastle
// Jul 21, 2026