Kate was cursed by her cousin on his deathbed to never stay. She and her cousin Bo didn’t hate each other—far from it. They’d grown up together: same small farming town in the inland northwest, popula...

Some stories I read and loved from this spring. Selections from Weird Horror Magazine Issue 12 My last round-up featured two stories f...

“Spinal Tap,” flash fiction by Angela Liu

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The global popularity of Chinese historical fantasy has brought forward a new era of female writers. How did this revolution start?

In one small town, the delicate balance between predator and prey is threatened when five girls are murdered on prom night.

The Year in Review 2025 It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of another year, or at the beginning of a new one by the time this is published. Whatever else is going on in the world, reading contin…

A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked , along with the recent short story collection The Ghost Sequences . Her wo...

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits

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Lightspeed 11/25 Escape Pod 10/30/25 PodCastle 10/21/25, 11/4/25 Lightspeed’s November issue starts with Angela Liu’s “How to Set Up Your Mourning Robot”, an incisive science fiction story written …

A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked , along with the recent short story collection The Ghost Sequences . Her wo...

A speculative fiction anthology devoted to ecological fiction. Whether you call it ecofiction, cli-fi, climate fiction or any other of a num...

Awards season has once again begun. We began by looking at all the works we collectively have in our sights for nominations in our Recomme...

Clarkesworld 11/25 “The Stone Played at Tengen” by R.H. Wesley in the November issue of Clarkesworld is a lovely and meditative story. When a strange constellation appears in the sky mimicking the …