“Being Enough is an Illusion” has been published by Gavagai. You can read it here. Inspiration: I started writing this story in 2023. I had just watched a...

Some prospectors’ ghosts leave their previous clothes real easy. My laundry shop was just a railway station on their way to the afterlife.

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Strange Horizons will open to general fiction submissions on October 1, 2026, at 3 p.m. UTC! This window will remain open until we hit our submission cap of 1,000 stories. Our maximum word count fo…

My first WorldCon is done!I participated in five panels: Found Family, Social Classes, Rare Fantastical Creatures, Asian Heroines, Modern Monsters. If you...

Aunt Jackie had warned me to be careful with Trey, the highest ranked male alpaca in her flock. His magical wool is so soft, we tolerate his posturing bullshit. I took the necessary precautions, se…

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