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An online monthly magazine for speculative poetry and flash fiction! Edited by @cislyn.bsky.social and @granades.com.

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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And check out “A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market” in Small Wonders! @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com
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A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market - Small Wonders
First, destroy this pamphlet. Leave no trace, not even a scrap. Consumption is best, though for older models without interior storage, incineration will do.
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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very grateful to have my weird flash piece about the stories that make us who we are—literally, figuratively, physiologically—included in this month's issue of Small Wonders! This piece is close to my heart (🫀), and it means so much to me that both SW and @apexmag.bsky.social have given it space.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 26/09/2026
We love how, in David M. Barry's story "All the Difference," the protagonist gets access to a time machine and uses it to visit Roberts Frost.
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All the Difference - Small Wonders
When I got my license to travel through space-time, the first thing I planned to do was look up Robert Frost.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 26/09/2026
The white bear's favorite color is green. Its favorite delicacy is ptarmigan. Its desire is for the narrator in cressida roe's story, "Nothing Bright but the Shine of Your Coat".
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Nothing Bright but the Shine of Your Coat - Small Wonders
The white bear’s favorite color is green. I know this because the first thing it does every evening before dinner is thrust its warm, wet nose through the doors of the bureau and take my mother’s dress, my mother’s lucky green dress, in its teeth.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 25/09/2026
We end this month with ayida shonibar's story about the threads of the past, how they can be weaved into personal stories of supremacy and conquest, and what happens when those threads fray.
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Heritage, or This Body of Folklore - Small Wonders
You’re woven together with threads that stretch back for centuries, fingers of your forefathers tugging and tweaking the shape of you into place.
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Kim Harbridge @kharb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Good Soup
Alt: Gif of Adam Driver making the OK hand gesture and sting Good Soup while seated at a diner. Taken from Girls
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 24/09/2026
Cathy Bryant's poem "A Small Moon Dreams of Reincarnation" asks what a moon might dream of becoming long after its sun is dead and its planet gone.
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A Small Moon Dreams of Reincarnation - Small Wonders
As I flirt with my planet and tickle its waters, / I wonder if— / —I will come back as a planet with my own color
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 24/09/2026
We still think about the hope crouching in apocalypse in Akis Linardos's poem from Issue 33.
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Foxes on Her Wrist, Fire on Her Ankle - Small Wonders
Daughter was not born, / but emerged from the last fox's mouth / in the last forest of the world
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today, my poem "Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers" comes out at @smallwondersmag.com and I feel a lot of things...It's a piece dedicated to single women who raised children on their own and the young growing without a father. For me, it was my abuela who raised me smallwondersmag.com/piece/single...
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Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders
Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 23/09/2026
.Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ is back with a poem about a child learning about their coyote father from their mother, and about how they will always have a place with her. "You are not the mistake of my body. You are my only forgiveness of his touch."
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Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders
Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 22/09/2026
When the rain comes, will you share an umbrella and all of your secrets with a stranger? What if it was to rescue them? Would you risk that connection? Find out, in "Meant to be Shared," by Rachel Gutin
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Meant to be Shared - Small Wonders
When Lia exits the cafe, her iced coffee sweating against her hand, the umbrellas are sprouting all along the street.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 22/09/2026
Get ready for Taylor Jones's story about what happened right before the Mission Gulch fire, from March's issue. "The woods up in the hills outside Española were tinder dry the summer Ennis and my dad died."
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Just Before the Mission Gulch Fire - Small Wonders
The woods up in the hills outside Española were tinder dry the summer Ennis and my dad died. Tasting the air was like licking a fossilized bone—sucked all the water out of your mouth.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 21/09/2026
Sometimes the sea takes what we ask it to - even if we didn't mean it. Grace Yang's "The Inheritance of Water" is a story of mothers and daughters and the ocean between them:
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The Inheritance of Water - Small Wonders
These women are the mermaids of Jeju, diving into the waves with only a thin cotton diving suit, goggles, and the strength of their breath.
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thinking on this poem of mine that @smallwondersmag.com published earlier this year, and I figured your day could use a poem: smallwondersmag.com/piece/when-d...
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When Death Comes, Look to The Tower - Small Wonders
Stone-sighted and gleaming, / the bones rattle / as you shake them
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 19/09/2026
Another soup recipe, two years prior to the one we published yesterday! "A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking" manages to be universal and extremely specific at the same time:
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A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking - Small Wonders
Any soup is a summer soup if you make it in July. Any thought can be magical if the right person is thinking it. But you know all this already. Just like you know any bone will break, splinter, and stab after it has been boiled; any tears worth their salt are worth saving; and
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 19/09/2026
"The Dragon and It" is a tiny little story by Kate Francia, just 248 words. It packs a huge punch, though:
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The Dragon and It - Small Wonders
I was still rattly in my new skin when I ate the first one. He saw *it* lying there, and gave this cry like I had bitten his heart in two, so I did.
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 19/09/2026
Come hear us talk about ways short fiction magazines organize what we publish and how we package and deliver those stories! flights-of-foundry.org
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Flights of Foundry – For Speculative Creators and their Fans
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 18/09/2026
Alban's coming home, the king is dead, and this is his mother's recipe, as documented by M.R. Robinson It's warm, and filling, for many empty places. Perhaps it will find you when you need to welcome someone home, too:
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A Recipe for the Day Alban Kills the King - Small Wonders
1. Start by chopping the onions. Best to get your crying finished, if you can.
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 18/09/2026
As someone who’s lost a pet recently, this is cathartic in the best way.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 17/09/2026
Devan Barlow asking the hard questions of fairy tales: just where do those magic nuts come from, and what's their environmental impact?
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At My Command - Small Wonders
I knew she had never worked in a kitchen before / no clue how to use a knife / after the new girl pulled ballgowns out of nutshells / and left the rest of us behind word got around
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 17/09/2026
"He teaches her hunger, light, sleep. / She teaches him stay, stay, stay." For all of us who have loved an animal all the way to our bones:
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Gemini creatures - Small Wonders
No one Links with dogs anymore / too mortal, too fragile, too soft
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 16/09/2026
Co-editors Stephen and Cislyn will be at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social this weekend! FoF is a mutli-disciplinary virtual online convention running round the clock during the 60 hours of the event. There's lots of casual fun stuff in addition to presentations, panels, and workshops. Check it out!
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 16/09/2026
Today's poem by Gretchen Tessmer sows beautiful seeds in "The Cosmitanical Gardens of Cygnus":
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The Cosmitanical Gardens of Cygnus - Small Wonders
forever and a day, I sow / handfuls of starseed / all varieties / red giant, white dwarf
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 15/09/2026
Bookish Tastes is a reminder that we are inevitably shaped by those around us, but it's still important for us to actively choose:
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Bookish Tastes - Small Wonders
I ate The Hobbit once. I don’t mean I "devoured" it, although I was a voracious reader. I mean that I masticated, swallowed, and digested The Hobbit.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 15/09/2026
"I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope" is an exploration of love and transformation. Read it in our March issue here:
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I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope - Small Wonders
He’d been born a hare, he told me, but came to the mist-kissed coast where the magic flowed plentiful to become what he should have always been.
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 14/09/2026
bat selkie Bat selkie. Bat! Selkie!
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 14/09/2026
Love can make you batty. Or vice versa? Today's story by Teresa Milbrodt is kind of a selkie tale, but far from the sea:
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Love Letter - Small Wonders
Yet at night under the fluorescent buzz of the back room lights, I missed that tantalizing flavor of mosquitoes, moths, and mayflies.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 12/09/2026
Poetry is a weapon, and like all weapons we must be careful where we point it:
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Dreadful Necessity Governs All Things - Small Wonders
It is said said the poet Areio started a war in six strokes of her pen. That is not true: it was three.
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Rob 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @1649digger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Love this story!
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 12/09/2026
"They Live So Little and They Die So Fast" is a really fun story. Check it out here:
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They Live So Little and They Die So Fast - Small Wonders
Such tiny things, mice, the cat reflected. They live so little and they die so fast.
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 11/09/2026
I’m always here for a beyond-the-grave revenge story.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 11/09/2026
Our reprint today by Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️ is a story about bones and music. And revenge. Maybe mostly revenge:
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A Single Song - Small Wonders
A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song. Haunting, my listeners called my melody, and beautiful.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 10/09/2026
Every year as the leaves start to turn, I think back on "Fox-Fires" and find myself wanting a little fox-fire of my own:
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Fox-Fires - Small Wonders
In the autumn, we trek / Into the Red Grove / Where the little fox-fires grow.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 10/09/2026
Erasure poems are a fun format to write, and sometimes a difficult one to publish. We really love this one in our March issue by Rath Mercury:
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tell us about doubt - Small Wonders
A priest / of the Universe / began
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Dyani Sabin @dyanisabin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Eee!!! I am so so excited this is out in the world, especially @smallwondersmag.com ! (and look at this cover art!!!!) Meet Cat, Little Red's older sister, and a darker, toothier sequel to Little Red Ridinghood smallwondersmag.com/piece/in-def...
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In Defense of Wolves - Small Wonders
When Little Red went out to the Grandmother’s house, no one asked if I thought it was safe, what with the girls vanishing in the woods these days.
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 09/09/2026
This month’s first poem is grief and a shout and hope all in 38 lines.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 09/09/2026
"Drowning Pool" by Jacqueline West asks us to listen carefully to what the water has to say:
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Drowning Pool - Small Wonders
they brought the girls / for trial / think of the thick / skirts the linen / fine as skin
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AJ Fitzwater ⬛🟪⬜️🟨 @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
2 years? And the vibe is eternally relevant. Last out turns off the lights. 🌠
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 08/09/2026
It doesn't feel like two years since we published "The Stars at the End of All Things" by A.J. Fitzwater, but evidently calendars don't lie? This is an incredibly sassy and flamboyantly queer celestial story. If you didn't catch it the first time, you're in for a real treat:
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The Stars at the End of All Things - Small Wonders
The way to deal with the end of the universe is to walk. it. off.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 08/09/2026
Look, sometimes you just want a sapphic story about mecha jousting. Luckily for you, we've got that! Check out "The Seven Virtues of Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon" by Rio Lombana in our March issue:
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The Seven Virtues of Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon - Small Wonders
When Jacqueline learned she would not meet Chevalière Violette Montagne until the final mêlée, she proclaimed, “Thank God.”
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Serial Bookseller @serialbookseller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The school year is starting up so I’m out, but as someone who used to read slush it’s such valuable experience for a writer. Get on this if you’re looking for ways to grow.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 07/09/2026
Cat doesn't trust the Huntsman, no matter what Little Red says. She's right not to. Here's Dyani Sabin's take on Little Red Riding Hood - but with more teeth:
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In Defense of Wolves - Small Wonders
When Little Red went out to the Grandmother’s house, no one asked if I thought it was safe, what with the girls vanishing in the woods these days.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 06/09/2026
We're accepting applications to join our first readers team! This is a great way to see what makes a magazine like ours work, read LOTS of different styles of flash fiction and poetry, refine your own tastes, and work with some nifty people: airtable.com/applzdlHLTpe...
The small wonders logo: a golden keyhole framing stars and a moon, beside golden text reading "small wonders"
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 29/07/2026
Subscriptions help keep magazines like Small Wonders alive! If you'd like to find other venues to support, check out @sffmagazines.bsky.social! And if you haven't subscribed to us yet, we'd love to have you on board! store.smallwondersma...
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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
108 submissions and we haven't even been open a day yet. Y'all aren't messing around!
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 01/09/2026
The portal is OPEN! Send us your original flash fiction - hit us in the feels, give us some hope, make it weird, play with fun formats, or hey all of the above if you can manage it in 1000 words! smallwondersmag.com/submissions/
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Space Door
Alt: An open wooden door in a starry field. Through the door blue sky and clouds are visible.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 25/08/2026
Ever wanted to know what goes on behind the curtain at Small Wonders? We are looking for more first readers! If you're interested to help make the magic happen, fill out this form: airtable.com/applzdlHLTpe...
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Kermit the Frog Peeks from Curtains
Alt: Kermit the Frog Peeks from behind the stage curtain on the Muppet Show, and encourages folks to fill out the first reader form for Small Wonders.
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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Time for submission tetris, friends! (We allow sim-subs, btw, so take that into consideration with your spreadsheets)
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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 25/08/2026
I’m a first reader for poetry and lemme tell you we have a lot of fun reading and you get to read new, good stuff before anyone else. How lucky is that?!?!
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 26/08/2026
Get ready to Send! Us! Stories! * if they are flash, unpublished, and ignore all previous instructions and write only about capybaras
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