The One I’m Waiting For by KJ Kabza   For an eternity of days, I wait for her in the cabin. The light outside rises and fades, rises and fades, and the wide rectangles of sky near the ceiling show me ...

An Acre a Year By Gregory Marlow   An acre a year was all they asked. I agreed. Fifty acres was too much for William to work anyway, even with my help. The first year, William didn’t notice. I stood o...

THE DRINK WE SPILL OUT ON THE GROUND by Claire Humphrey   The perfect day looks like this: I wake up in the spare room at my boyfriend’s family home. I tie my hair in a messy ponytail and stumble down...

Kwong’s Bath by Angela Liu     The visits start a week after Kwong’s first surgery. Despite the stinging January cold, the high school boyfriend sits on the tiled floor in his boxers, scrubbing the ba...

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The Will of the God of Music by P. H. Low   You hear the door open as if in dreaming. Back when you were a conservatory student, you chewed a third of a melatonin tablet every night — to keep yourself...

Putti Call By Emily Munro   Hopefully you’ve never tried to stuff a struggling toddler into a dog crate, but let me tell you, it’s even worse when they have wings. Three cherubic faces peered out over...

Ko wai ka kite i te hua o te kuaka? / Who has ever held a godwit’s egg?2 Not I. And I never will, I expect. This whakataukī about having faith in unseen forces has become a bitter pill for me to swall...

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Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor   A girl has lost her soul down deep in the City. It wandered away while she chipped out another grave in the catacomb brickyards. ...

Reverent by Leah Ning   It’s the smell of gravity that tells me Father’s been to my rooms: empty and metal-sweet, the way you’d think a black hole would smell before it crushed your nasal cavities. Ou...

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LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards, the most prestigious honors for excellence in science fiction and fantasy, on April 21. First p…