Uncle, why does our house always smell bad?

Uncle, why does our house always smell bad?

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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…

Issue 9, Fall 2026 Fiction Every Anxious Person Dreams of Teeth by EC Hallewell   Gael’s Severed Eye by Z.D. Dochterman   The Bell Jar Frequency by Gretchen Tessmer   Shades of Bruises and Blood by Katherine Quevedo   Rat Song by DC Corvino Measure for Measure by Kris Jarden   My Holiday from the…

This month's recommendations are loosely based around themes of technology and resistance...

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The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

Take your latest heatwave-induced existential crisis and turn it into art. Or a machine that magically saves us from ourselves WAIT THAT’S ART.

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.

What if “Sinners” and “Is God Is” belong to the same spiritual universe? Reading the films through the Yoruba Ibeji twins reveals a meditation on ancestry, protection, Hoodoo, and Black futurity, wher...

Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…

Update 6/1/2026: We are OPEN to general submissionsWe are looking for complete 500- to 1000-word stories with crisp prose, well-developed characters, compelling plots, and satisfying resolutions. We w...

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I have told this story before, and I will tell it again, and each telling grows more teeth. Sometimes thirty-four, thirty-six. Sometimes they multiply faster than your science allows, like every word ...

I prayed all the gods to steady me when the spirits came close. I would not speak of spirits while there was fighting to be done, and it would be worse to speak of them to explain a fit that looked like cowardice. Our captain already thought me unfit for the company. And now I had the chance to prove him wrong and do a man’s part in battle. The Furies take any man or shade who stood against me.