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Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by award-winning author P.A. Cornell is a sci-fi romance novelette set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, publishing February 3, 2026 via Stars and Sabers Publishing.

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Outside, the cries of the blood locusts swelled, as they would until month's end. These creatures writhed below ground for seven years before breaching the surface to feast on fruits and flesh alike. ...

by Maria Haskins Where there are humans telling stories, there are monsters. From the very beginning, monsters have taken center stage in our myths, fairytales, and fiction. The vampire is one of the ...

What I’d like readers to take away from this is that there’s value to art. That it is in fact an essential service that provides us with something that can improve our lives just by being exposed to i...

The landlord requires proof of the infestation, and proof---per clause twelve, subsection three of the lease---must come in the form of a living specimen, safely contained. A dead specimen is insuffic...

This month's stories have a little god murder, some necromancy, and some brain swapping...

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden

by Derrick Boden

The Life and Times of Alavira the Great, #1: The Missing Hill by Titos Pavlou Lefteris_Loves_Fantasy review: 4 STARS                           14 November 2013 As always, I’m doing a buddy read with M...

Cold Iron Clockwork

Have you ever noticed a group of older women having fun, completely indifferent to everyone around them? Have you seen them being unapologetically themselves, doing their thing, despite what people mi...

When Clem first realizes she’s a monster, she’s in the gender-neutral bathroom on the fourth floor of the Seattle Convention Center, trying to convince the touchless faucet she exists. She waves her h...

There once was a man and his wife who had seven children, all boys. They were all very human and very poor. The youngest boy was so tiny and malnourished that they called him Little Thumb; but though ...