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Poetry
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By:
Christine V. Lao
See the bruise on my forehead? That’s wisdom’s kiss.
Fiction
A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum
By:
Katharine Tyndall
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Tempered And Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction
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Radiant Star by Ann Leckie
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Wednesday
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The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison
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Dawn Macdonald
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Friday
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The Witch by Marie Ndiaye
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Akankshya Abismruta
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Issue 18 May 2026
Poetry
My Grandmother Turned Dead Souls into Sugar
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Mary Salas Robles
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Poetry
Death of the Emperor’s Nightingale
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Shantell Powell
Art by:
Romie Stott
Fiction
Hymn To Scylla
By:
Elena Goh
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Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf by C. L. Clark
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Catherine Baker
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Wednesday
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Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley
By:
Duncan Lawie
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Friday
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The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png
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Sneha Pathak
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Issue 11 May 2026
Poetry
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Greg Fewer
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The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub
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Nico Martinez Nocito
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Coming Home
By:
Dhiyanah Hassan
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The Curve of the World by Vonda N. McIntyre
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Kate Macdonald
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Wednesday
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The Apple and the Pearl by Rym Kechacha
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Anushree Nande
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Friday
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Zoi by Jane Mondrup
By:
A. Bristow-Smith
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Issue 4 May 2026
Fiction
Senescence
By:
aegor ray
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The Dragon
By:
Michael Janairo
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Beetles
By:
Ewan Downie
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By:
Hana Carolina
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Alex Kingsley
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The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan
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Martin Petto
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Wednesday
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Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills
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William Shaw
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Friday
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Planet of Ghosts and Other Stories by Wesley R. Bishop
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Refuse
By:
Megan Branning
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The Shut-in on the 55th Floor
By:
Abby Nicole Yee
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Romie Stott
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Underneath the Underneath
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Audrey Zhou
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Athar Fikry
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Krackle’s Last Movie by Chelsea Sutton
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Hana Carolina
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Wednesday
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Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters edited by Randy Brown
By:
Thomas E. Simmons
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Friday
:
Isaac by Allee Mead
By:
Alex Kingsley
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Issue 13 Apr 2026
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Crystal Sidell
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Dead City Dreaming
By:
Joshua Ginsberg
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Skiinfolk
By:
Jamie McGhee
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The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey
By:
Bill Capossere
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Wednesday
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Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel
By:
Danielle Hanson
,
Friday
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Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn
By:
Seamus Sullivan
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Poetry
Many of you have been asking what happens when an angel dies
By:
Seoung Kim
Poetry
Code Blue
By:
Victoria Ojo
Fiction
The Houses of the Stars in Heaven
By:
Ferdison Cayetano
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Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 22: Romancing The Genre
By:
Jenny Hamilton
By:
Anushree Nande
By:
Dan Hartland
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Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
By:
Nick Hubble
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Wednesday
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When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee
By:
Kyle R. Garton
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Friday
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The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older
By:
Safia H. Senhaji
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Issue 30 Mar 2026
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Introduction: Fungal Dreams
By:
Gautam Bhatia
Fiction
Nights and Weekends in the Shoggoth Loop
By:
Yri Hansen
Art
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Poetry
Mushroon
By:
Mary Soon Lee
Art by:
Romie Stott
Poetry
The Cryptogamists
By:
Sonya Taaffe
Poetry
Chronicling the Orbits of Mushrooms
By:
Caleb Peiffer
Articles
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From Cosmic Horror to Solarpunk Futures: The Changing Face of Fungal Speculation
By:
Ruthanna Emrys
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Non-Fiction
Climbing the Fungal Ladder: Towards Transcending Barriers
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Ayida Shonibar
Articles
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Non-Fiction
How to Grow a City: Biogenic Architecture and Symbiotic Evolution
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Maya Horton
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Utopian Eukaryotes: Revisiting the jahSepp from Star Trek: Discovery
By:
Jordan Hirsch
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Fungus, Climate Change, and You: Facts and Speculative Fiction
By:
Jason P. Burnham
Columns
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An STD could save your (chest)nuts
By:
Helen Pennington
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Monday
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Shuten Order
By:
Tristan Beiter
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Wednesday
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Make-Believe and Artifice by Rose Biggin
By:
William Shaw
,
Friday
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The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter by Brionni Nwosu
By:
Nileena Sunil
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Issue 23 Mar 2026
Poetry
Pennsylvania Cryptid
By:
Amelia England
Articles
,
Non-Fiction
That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships In Cosy SFF
By:
S.L. Dove Cooper
Poetry
The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator
By:
Katlina Sommerberg
Reviews
Monday
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Beings by Ilana Masad
By:
David Lewis
,
Wednesday
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The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui
By:
Alex Kingsley
,
Friday
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Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks
By:
Eric Primm
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Issue 16 Mar 2026
Poetry
Narcissus Meets the Ghost of AI in a Dark Alley Behind a Fusion Restaurant
By:
Lesley Hart Gunn
Poetry
[minutes between city and forest #4]
By:
Ceridwen Hall
Columns
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Non-Fiction
Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: The Call of Sauúti
By:
Eugen Bacon
Fiction
Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems
By:
Jenna Hanchey
Reviews
Monday
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Crisis at Proxima by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson
By:
Andy Sawyer
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Wednesday
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
By:
Amritesh Mukherjee
,
Friday
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When Among Crows and To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth
By:
Electra Pritchett
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