Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes two speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN Closing October 11, 2026 at 11:59pm Eastern Time Night Shades opens sporadically...

by Wendy BooydeGraaff He likes that I fall apart, that when he’s holding my hand under the cherry blossoms, I’ll stop and sniff, and he’ll keep walking, my arm disengaged from my shoulder. The tensio...

by Wendy BooydeGraaff He likes that I fall apart, that when he’s holding my hand under the cherry blossoms, I’ll stop and sniff, and he’ll keep walking, my arm disengaged from my shoulder. The tensio...

by Meagan Kane Whenever Tammy is alone, she collapses to the ground, head thunking against the pavement or carpet or wooden slats. She stays solidly still. Her eyes move but her eyelids do not. Where...

by Elizabeth Twist The largest of the remaining church walls is a hunchbacked beast. It looms in the half-dark. Beyond it is open sky, and far below, the patchwork quilt of farms and bogs and the wor...

by Elizabeth Twist The largest of the remaining church walls is a hunchbacked beast. It looms in the half-dark. Beyond it is open sky, and far below, the patchwork quilt of farms and bogs and the wor...

by Elizabeth Twist The largest of the remaining church walls is a hunchbacked beast. It looms in the half-dark. Beyond it is open sky, and far below, the patchwork quilt of farms and bogs and the wor...

Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.

Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.

Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.

by Casey Flynn In two weeks I will find a stuffed unicorn under my daughter’s bed and when I pick it up it will tell me that in two years I’ll meet a woman at a writing conference who will say that t...

by Casey Flynn In two weeks I will find a stuffed unicorn under my daughter’s bed and when I pick it up it will tell me that in two years I’ll meet a woman at a writing conference who will say that t...

by Casey Flynn In two weeks I will find a stuffed unicorn under my daughter’s bed and when I pick it up it will tell me that in two years I’ll meet a woman at a writing conference who will say that t...

Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.

by Douglas W. Milliken She’s lighting the lanterns crossing the bridge. In the river chuckling with its stones below, long fish pass, silver and pink, without once acknowledging the woman with her sm...

by Douglas W. Milliken She’s lighting the lanterns crossing the bridge. In the river chuckling with its stones below, long fish pass, silver and pink, without once acknowledging the woman with her sm...

by H. Marin The what happens when the scales come in talk wasn’t one I’d gotten to have with Momma before she’d retreated into the ocean and never come back up. I stubbornly dig them out in the showe...

by H. Marin The what happens when the scales come in talk wasn’t one I’d gotten to have with Momma before she’d retreated into the ocean and never come back up. I stubbornly dig them out in the showe...

by H. Marin The what happens when the scales come in talk wasn’t one I’d gotten to have with Momma before she’d retreated into the ocean and never come back up. I stubbornly dig them out in the showe...

by Parker M. O'Neill Listen I'm making soup right now so I'll be quick if you’re really hellbent on visiting Nana you should know there's Mold all through her house water damage hairy black fungus on...

by Parker M. O'Neill Listen I'm making soup right now so I'll be quick if you’re really hellbent on visiting Nana you should know there's Mold all through her house water damage hairy black fungus on...

by Parker M. O'Neill Listen I'm making soup right now so I'll be quick if you’re really hellbent on visiting Nana you should know there's Mold all through her house water damage hairy black fungus on...