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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why you fucked Mothman by Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social "his wildfire eyes saw the world burning and he could do nothing but tell you" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“I Must Put Things in My Mouth”: Loving Trans Children in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites by Franklin Mitchell "Butler’s hybrid future disrupts familiar timelines of aging and reproduction. In doing so, it opens up liberatory possibilities... Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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28 September 2026

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Butler’s hybrid future disrupts familiar timelines of aging and reproduction. In doing so, it opens up liberatory possibilities for a relationship between parents and trans children that isn’t beholden to these normative chronologies.
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I Must Put Things in My Mouth: Loving Trans Children in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Witnesses by Lesley Hart Gunn art by Romie Stott @romiesays.bsky.social "watching the heart monitor pulse while we dine on the lingering soul of surf and turf." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions open on the 1st of October, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC! The max word count per story will be 5,000 words. There will be a 1,000 story cap. Once we reach that number of submissions, the window will close. Link to more information ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The reviews are in! Xicanxfuturism: Codex 1 edited by Scott Russell Duncan reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi @hararereview.com Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Winston Waits for O’Brien by Christina Ranon "I have folded her into the hollows of my bones, spent hours stitching the thread of her voice into my veins." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Jenny M. Liu @jennymliu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a short story out today in the wonderful @strangehorizons.bsky.social!! 💐💐 It's about two ex-warbots going on a road trip. It's about how the damage is done. Grateful to @mynachang.bsky.social and everyone at Strange Horizons. 💐💐 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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my fingers formed into guns

I killed four hundred soldier bots all vying for the same thing before I realized there was no such thing as anti-war if our invention was the solution.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my fingers formed into guns by Jenny M. Liu @jennymliu.bsky.social "I killed four hundred soldier bots all vying for the same thing before I realized there was no such thing as anti-war if our invention was the solution." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Fiction

21 September 2026

We roared out of that armory, children of the horizon, proxies for the leftover nations, former superpowers. I killed four hundred soldier bots all vying for the same thing before I realized there was no such thing as anti-war if our invention was the solution.

my fingers formed into guns
by Jenny M. Liu

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Iyá Mi / My Mothers by Oluwafemi Aderinola "Yes, we will breathe in your lungs when bullets fly. Yes, we will turn your enemies’ roads to crooked thorns." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison reviewed by Ryan Elliott Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To Locked Feathers by Michael Hessel-Mial "vexing the other techs by peering into colliding particles, genetic codes, finding and exposing the doings of nonmortal ways for the benefit of humans." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People Shoot People by Brie Atienza "Every night, the fridge forgets. So do the TV, the light switches, the thermostat, the ceiling fans, the sinks, the plant pots, and the trash compactor. For better or worse, nightly resets wipe complex relational matrices." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The reviews are in! Beatrice the Sixteenth by Irene Clyde reviewed by Elizabeth A. Allen Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Critical Friends Episode 27: Pop Fiction with AJ Odasso @ajodasso.bsky.social Electra Pritchett and Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social SFF has a long and complex relationship with questions of popular culture. Where does this stand today? Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Critical Friends Episode 27: Pop Fiction

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, AJ Odasso and Electra Pritchett join Dan Hartland to talk about popular fiction.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Minnie or Maude by Gwynne Garfinkle "there are all kinds of witch hunts, Maude" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

not to have killed a king by E. L. Roseman @elroseman.bsky.social "There are protocols to plotting to kill the King, like not talking about killing the King, and certainly not talking about killing the King in the palace..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nasal Route by Christopher Conscious "missed his mouth; tongue slipped in" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The reviews are in! Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV reviewed by Duncan Lawie Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Enjoying the Internet Culture Special Issue? Here's some more! Scenes From the Dream Prompt by Isabella G. Mead "she has been stamping all over this once-pristine surface: footprints in the thousands, silvery trash scattered on the aeolian wind." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"You want to be a universal language. You want to be the scent of a dream slipping through cracks in the stars." This story has me in a chokehold!! Everyone read MR_MR_CENTICORE

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Internet Culture Special Issue continues! MR_MR_CENTICORE by Micah Giddens "...the California sun is too mean to let you play outside so you stare at Magic Eye books all day until you get good at unfocusing your gaze to uncover hidden realities." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New shirt, who dis? Look what I got as an early bday present! Yes @strangehorizons.bsky.social sells merch and also they published my novelette "Mother, Darling" which you should totally read if you want to Feel Things about motherhood and WWI and Neverland. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Internet Culture Special Issue is here!

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come Sell Us Your Dreams by J. P. Babb "You shouldn’t dream sweet if you want to go viral (we mean no offence, but those tend to be cringe); try scary, try strange, try lucid, try stressful" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You’re the Only One Who Knows by Adam Coday "and that chair from the Wangs’ old house— that one we once both slept in, plaid and oversized. It’d been duplicated, too!" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Move Fast and Don’t Ask Permission: Techno-Optimism in R.U.R. and Arcane by Claire Jia-Wen Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Let This Vessel Be My Offering by Joy Donnell art by Romie Stott "emergency landing on troubled waters. Shoreless unrest." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The reviews are in! As If by Isabel Waidner reviewed by E. C. Barrett Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sock Drawer Astronomy by Yanqing Yang "Dust rehearses sunlight like a patient babysitter." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A Tiny™ Concert for the No-Name King by Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social "I didn’t know if this was transformation gone too far, or the usual way magic blotted out identity in a monarch so they could truly stand in for their people." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To the Reader by Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social "his deeds but paper deeds slender as river reeds." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The reviews are in! What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed reviewed by Cat Fitzpatrick Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Deicide by Deborah L. Davitt "Nature, desecrated, refused to yield more than bone" Read the full poem at the link to the latest issue in our bio!

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Scarcely Gone by Marissa Lingen "...and she'd dumped my ashes out in the desert without fanfare, without any poem or prayer, unless you considered, 'Jesus, Marty, don't leave me. Why'd you leave me, you old bastard' to be an elegy." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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We'd only lived in Arizona four years it was our retirement place. But I'd died there, and she'd dumped my ashes out in the desert without fanfare, without any poem or prayer, unless you considered, Jesus, Marty, don't leave me. Why'd you leave me, you old bastard to be an elegy.
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Diary of a Figurehead - Part II by Valerie Wardh "not as a ship’s ornament, no, something closer to a cannon." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The reviews are in! Earthly Playing Field by Radhika Singh reviewed by aegor ray Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

PODCAST ALERT! Critical Friends Episode 26: On Awards Dan Hartland is with Amritesh Mukherjee and Abigail Nussbaum discussing awards and their effect on criticism. Do critics spend too much time thinking about awards? Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Critical Friends Episode 26: On Awards

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Amritesh Mukherjee and Abigail Nussbaum join Dan Hartland to talk about literary awards.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Indigo by Heera Kumar "The deads are punctual. They arrive exactly when there is nothing left to distract us." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Every Child A Changeling by Samantha Pellegrino "I sat up on one arm and peered into her crib. She was gone. In her place was wrapped a sallow, horned little boy." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

death to the phoenix metaphor by Kiki Em "survival is a fungus" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Bakotsu says his skin is our skin by Betsy Aoki art by Romie Stott "The secret of what a horse knows still bubbles and screams inside me." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Tu-Chuan with No Name | 沒有名字的杜鵑 by Chen-Fu Hsu translated by Coco Zhou "On the edge of the island is a city where, because it is not far from the sea, every layer of sediment has a quality of softness like water." Link ⬇️ samovar.strangehorizons.com/2026/07/27/t...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Rapunzel | Златокоса by Jovana Simic Roussou translated by Jovana Simic Roussou "The very first thing she could recall was an improvised merry-go-round, a swarm of fireflies spinning over her cradle." Link ⬇️ samovar.strangehorizons.com/2026/07/29/r...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Strange Horizons invites you to read administrative and poetry editor @romiesays.bsky.social thoughts on internal AI policy in the supplemental issue. "Our process does not require consensus. The submissions guidelines of each department are different." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Imprisoned Lightning: Trust and AI-Generated Submissions

People keep asking for our AI policy. One editor points a finger at the moon.

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Lisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’ve responded to all the June poetry subs to @strangehorizons.bsky.social. If you haven’t heard back, something went astray. Query us and we’ll figure it out.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The reviews are in! Man, Muse, Monster by Naomi Gibson reviewed by Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Becoming State Equipment by Hannan Khan "We hear it leak sometimes— chanting slithering between his teeth while he slumbers" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Burning Hope on Auntie Regina’s Breast by Chris Kuriata "Given Rebecca’s hunger for blood, our hopes being complimentary seemed unlikely, yet Auntie Regina’s blessing poured over us both from head to toe. Never before had I felt closer to my sister." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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