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Sam Kyung Yoo is a sci-fi/fantasy writer and taekwondo instructor from Massachusetts that likes to write stories about ghosts, East Asian folklore, and sad robots. They have publications with Fantasy Magazine, Fireside, Neon Hemlock Press, among others. Their debut novella, Small Gods of Calamity, is forthcoming in 2024. Find them on social media @SamKyungYoo or at samkyungyoo.com.


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3 Aug 2026

I had a daughter and then I didn’t. I woke in the cradle of midnight, shivering from a supernatural cold. I thought at first that she was crying, that she had woken me, like so many midnights before. But there was silence all around me. I sat up on one arm and peered into her crib. She was gone. In her place was wrapped a sallow, horned little boy. His eyes blinked open. I look at him. He looked at me. Changeling, I thought. Then he started to scream. “Why weren’t the windows
The deads are punctual. They arrive exactly when there is nothing left to distract us.
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