// Brooke Bolander
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Aug 13, 2026
Lise’s personas have no warning when the XexlCo Construct appears at the gate of her memory garden, smiling cheerfully at each of her personas in turn like a neighborhood milkman making his daily rounds. They watch the newcomer saunter by with open curiosity, moving aside to let him pass as though he’s a regular guest in Lise’s subconscious. The...
// Adam Pracht
// Escape Pod
// Aug 27, 2026
// Scott Andrews
// Beneath Ceaseless Skies
// Sep 3, 2026
By Abhijeet Sathe in Issue #465 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The foals don’t recall the age of enthrallment because we never taught them of that dark eon when the kin marched on the cities of man. I do. I was in that horde scouring the land, mindless tools of the stillborn god. We raged and reaved until one crisp winter morning whe...
// 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 […]
// Sam J. Miller
// Uncanny Magazine
// Aug 4, 2026