Strange Horizons

Art, Poetry

The Sound of Trying to Remember

By: Vinita Agrawal
Art by: Romie Stott

8 Jun 2026

They took the verse... and translated its grief into a new alphabet.

Poetry

look

By: Eric Otto

8 Jun 2026

i am learning my new friend’s language / she said do you want to look for frogs sometime

Poetry

Happy as a Clam™

By: Katlina Sommerberg

1 Jun 2026

We bring you Biometric Shell™ Technology, / a sanctuary of seamless containment.

Poetry

Obvious

By: Christine V. Lao

1 Jun 2026

See the bruise on my forehead? That’s wisdom’s kiss.

Poetry

So This Is A Week

By: Mary Soon Lee

25 May 2026

The troll dozes under the gazebo, his gray flesh pale as woodsmoke

Poetry

How to Get Around It

By: Holly Hunt

25 May 2026

When you seek access / to the secret records / they will let you in easy even if / your ID is a fuzzy Hubble nebula.

Poetry

My Grandmother Turned Dead Souls into Sugar

By: Mary Salas Robles

18 May 2026

My grandmother slit my father’s bones and let them fly with yeast.

Art, Poetry

Death of the Emperor’s Nightingale

By: Shantell Powell
Art by: Romie Stott

18 May 2026

the nightingale was caught in a net / and brought to a lab for further study.

Poetry

The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub

By: Nico Martinez Nocito

11 May 2026

Change requires examination of the initial errors

Poetry

Gone

By: Greg Fewer

11 May 2026

Siberia our first home / wild and remote–safe / but Alexei wanted more / theatre–dances–rich men