An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

Hi all! The year continues to be a difficult for me personally but I’m still happy to be able to help spread the news about some recent quee

The ebook edition of Corners of the Deep Dark is popping up at various retailers. You can preorder from Amazon and Kobo, with more retailers to come. If you're not in the US, the book is also on your localized 'zon or Kobo store. All possible regional/national distribution ticky boxes have been ticked. The print edition isn't up for preorder yet—proofing takes longer—but it will also start rolling out soon.

People usually pass through the gray silence of the desert. Beyond charred sumps and refinery towers, oil fields and dust walls, they drive without an intent to tarry. Most know this for a middle plac...

Pride Month might be wrapping up for many people, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to awesome queer short SFF. Now,

It may take a decade or longer to train a human clinician, but it took a team of Ministry of Health technicians only seven days to certify me a Clinically Adept Machine Sentience (CAMS) and hand me co...

Power to Yield is a collection of speculative tales exploring gender identity, neurodivergence, and religion from author Bogi Takács, who deftly blends sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction.

And I’ve made it to installment #100 of Some Queer Short SFF! Given how thoroughly I’ve fallen apart this year, I am proud at least that I c

The 23rd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.

The 23rd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.

Check out Human Voices, Alien Conversations - <em>Human Voices, Alien Conversations</em> is a tour through the modern world of speculative fiction, featuring a variety of perspectives. Authors, critic...

Vera Brook's exciting debut collection of short fiction with hand-drawn illustrations and author's story notes.

Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by award-winning author P.A. Cornell is a sci-fi romance novelette set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, publishing February 3, 2026 via Stars and Sabers Publishing.

A soul reincarnated as a car narrates this haunting, music-soaked speculative short story by P. A. Cornell.

Most of us speak and eat/swallow without thinking about how complicated these processes actually are, how a single malfunction in the system can completely alter how we live or interact with others. A...

Some Queer Short SFF - March 2026 by Charles Payseur on Patreon. Join Charles Payseur's community for exclusive content and updates.

You can know something is a trap and walk right into it anyway. There’s a vicious kind of glee in the snap of steel jaws springing closed, biting through skin and splintering bone. You can think aha, I knew it as you swallow the pain.