They didn’t want either of us to live this long. Sucks for them—we’re good at living in spite. We’re good at surviving, at fighting, at never stopping. Today is the last day we exist in spite of Comma...

She always returns in the blue hour, when twilight stains the glassy surface of the tarn with sky. Torn, stained, still smelling of charred flesh or powdered with quicklime, waxen lips curling into a ...

—and they saidoh god they said I would be forgivenand I said I would try to forgive myself but all I can see when I close my eyes are those translucent hooves and the fragile green shoots that sprang ...

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Otherside 3/26 Flash Fiction Online 4/26 Small Wonders 4/26 Otherside is a new quarterly queer-led literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ creators. The inaugural issue bodes well for the magazine's future with several solid reprints and seven original stories. This Is Not Your Extinction Event by Elena Sichrovsky is a profoundly unsettling story about Robert, whose life is tangled up in …Read More

Before the world ends, Miri’s family saves up enough money to escape to 2004. 2004: a safe haven. The year lilts off the tongue, like a promise. Miri and Lise spend their last evening together in thei...

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I. Animal Husbandry The day your moms become infected, you’re in your animal husbandry class, taught in the tack room of the barn. Sarah’s mom is holding up a chicken egg, saying, “Eggs are valuable, ...

I. Animal Husbandry The day your moms become infected, you’re in your animal husbandry class, taught in the tack room of the barn. Sarah’s mom is holding up a chicken egg, saying, “Eggs are valuable, ...

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Her lips pale as chalk, / she begs me for sustenance. / There is nothing left.

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The New York Times interviewed two authors who claim AI is the future of romance novels, who coincidentally also sell courses about how to use AI to write romance novels.

Six of my favorite SFF short stories from 2025 that are doing something really fascinating with form and point of view! These are stories…