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Paths, Littlings, and Holy Things by Somto Ihezue

June 16, 2025 3260 words

Irina, Unafraid by Anna Clark

June 2, 2025 1298 words

Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by Effie Seiberg

May 16, 2025 3479 words

The Rat King Who Wasn't by Stephen Granade

May 2, 2025 2847 words

The Octopus Dreams of Personhood by Hannah Yang

April 16, 2025 3035 words

The Unfactory by Derrick Boden

April 2, 2025 1890 words

The Witches Who Drowned by R.J. Becks

March 17, 2025

The Matador and the Labyrinth by C.C. Finlay

March 3, 2025

In His Image by R. Haven

February 17, 2025

The Statue Hunt by E. Carey Crowder

January 15, 2025

The Year the Sheep God Shattered by Marissa Lingen

January 3, 2025

Margery Lung Is Unstoppable by Lisa Cai

December 16, 2024

St. Thomas Aquinas Administers the Turing Test by Mary Berman

December 2, 2024

The Lighthouse Keeper by Melinda Brasher

November 15, 2024

Song for a Star-Whale's Ghost by Devin Miller

November 1, 2024

Bone Talker, Bone Eater by D.S. Ravenhurst

October 16, 2024

The Gaunt Strikes Again by Rich Larson

October 2, 2024

Batter and Pearl by Steph Kwiatkowski

September 16, 2024

Letters From Mt. Monroe Elementary, Third Grade by Sarah Pauling

September 2, 2024

Dreamwright Street by Mike Reeves-McMillan

August 16, 2024

In Tandem by Emilee Prado

August 2, 2024

Phantom Heart by Charlie B. Lorch

July 15, 2024

Eternal Recurrence by Spencer Nitkey

July 1, 2024

Hold the Sea Inside by Erin Keating

June 17, 2024

Ketchōkuma by Mason Yeater

May 1, 2024

Six-Month Assessment on Miracle Fresh by Anne Liberton

April 15, 2024

The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds by Renan Bernardo

March 15, 2024

Level One: Blowtorch by Jared Oliver Adams

March 1, 2024

The Geist and/in/as the Boltzmann Brain by M.J. Pettit

February 16, 2024

BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING by Gillian Secord

February 2, 2024

They Are Dancing by John Stadelman

January 15, 2024

A Descending Arctic Excavation of Us by Sara S. Messenger

January 3, 2024

It Clings by Hammond Diehl

December 1, 2023

In the Shelter of Ghosts by Risa Wolf

November 1, 2023

Like Ladybugs, Bright Spots In Your Mailbox by Marie Croke

October 2, 2023

Requiem by P.H. Low

September 15, 2023

Every Me Is Someone Else by Andrew Dibble

September 1, 2023

Shalom Aleichem by Y.M. Resnik

August 16, 2023

On a Smoke-Blackened Wing by Joanne Rixon

August 2, 2023

The Dryad and the Carpenter by Samara Auman

July 18, 2023

Glass Moon Water by Linda Niehoff

July 5, 2023

Interstate Mohinis by M.L. Krishnan

June 16, 2023

They Were Wonderful, Once by Lily Watson

June 2, 2023

Diamondback V. Tunnelrat by Nick Thomas

May 15, 2023

Bottled Words by Carol Scheina

April 17, 2023

Re: Your Stone by Guan Un

April 3, 2023

A Girl With a Planet In Her Eye by Ruth Joffre

March 22, 2023

The Desert's Voice is Sweet to Hear by Carolina Valentine

March 15, 2023

The Hivemind's Royal Jelly by Josh Pearce

March 8, 2023

Rattenkönig by Jenova Edenson

March 1, 2023

Devil's Lace by Julie Le Blanc

February 15, 2023

Tell Me the Meaning of Bees by Amal Singh

January 16, 2023

Dog Song by Avi Naftali

January 2, 2023

When There Is Sugar by Leonard Richardson

December 16, 2022

Midwifery of Gods: A Primer for Mortals by Amanda Helms

December 2, 2022

Beneath the Crust by Phil Dyer

November 16, 2022

The Restaurant of Object Permanence by Beth Goder

November 2, 2022

Estelle and the Cabbage's First Last Night Together by Amy Johnson

October 17, 2022

Downstairs at Dino's by Diana Hurlburt

October 3, 2022

A Stitch in Time, A Thousand Cuts by Murtaza Mohsin

September 16, 2022

The Grammar of City Streets by Daniel Ausema

September 2, 2022

Take Me To the Water by Sarah Macklin

August 15, 2022

Heart of a Plesiosaur by Andrew K Hoe

July 15, 2022

The Twenty-Second Lover of House Rousseau by C.M. Fields

June 20, 2022

The Hotel Endless by Davian Aw

June 10, 2022

Timecop Mojitos by Sarah Pauling

June 1, 2022

Mochi, With Teeth by Sara S. Messenger

May 23, 2022

The Many Taste Grooves of the Chang Family by Allison King

May 16, 2022

Vegetable Mommy by Patrick Barb

May 9, 2022

A Strange and Muensterous Desire by Amanda Hollander

May 2, 2022

She Dreams In Digital by Katie Grace Carpenter

April 22, 2022

21 Motes by Jonathan Louis Duckworth

April 11, 2022

Food of the Turtle Gods by Josh Strnad

April 1, 2022

The Assembly of Graves by Rob E. Boley

March 16, 2022

The House Diminished by Devan Barlow

March 2, 2022

Coffee, Doughnuts, and Timeline Reverberations by Cory Swanson

February 16, 2022

The Galactic Induction Handbook by Mark Vandersluis

February 2, 2022

Delivery For 3C at Song View by Marie Croke

January 17, 2022

Tides That Bind by Cislyn Smith

January 3, 2022

There Are Angels and They Are Utilitarians by Jamie Wahls

December 15, 2021

There's an Art To It by Brian Hugenbruch

December 1, 2021

Lies I Never Told You by Jaxton Kimble

November 15, 2021

Forced Fields by Adam Gaylord

November 1, 2021

It’s Real Meat!™ by Kurt Pankau

October 15, 2021

A Guide to Snack Foods After the Apocalypse by Rachael K. Jones

September 15, 2021

The Art and Mystery of Thea Wells by Alexandra Seidel

August 16, 2021

Fermata by Sarah Fannon

August 2, 2021

Kudzu by Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers

July 16, 2021

Along Our Perforated Creases by K.W. Colyard

July 2, 2021

We Will Weather One Another Somehow by Kristina Ten

June 16, 2021

One More Angel by Monica Joyce Evans

June 2, 2021

Three Riddles and a Mid-Sized Sedan by Lauren Ring

May 17, 2021

The PILGRIM's Guide to Mars by Monique Cuillerier

May 3, 2021

For Lack of a Bed by John Wiswell

April 16, 2021

The Day Fair For Guys Becoming Middle Managers by Rachael K. Jones

April 2, 2021

The Void and the Voice by Jeff Soesbe

March 15, 2021

Boom & Bust by David F. Shultz

March 1, 2021

A Study of Sage by Kel Coleman

February 15, 2021

Energy Power Gets What She Wants by Matt Dovey

February 1, 2021

Unstoned by Jason Gruber

January 15, 2021

Everyone You Know is a Raven by Phil Dyer

January 1, 2021

Tony Roomba's Last Day On Earth by Maria Haskins

December 16, 2020

My Legs Can Fell Trees' and Other Songs for a Hungry Raptor by Matthew Schickele

December 2, 2020

Mama's Hand of Glory by Douglas Ford

November 16, 2020

Many-Faced Monsters in the Backlands by Lee Chamney

November 2, 2020

Are You Being Severed? by Rhys Hughes

October 16, 2020

The Last Great Rumpus by Brian Winfrey

September 20, 2020

That Good Old Country Living by Vanessa Montalban

September 16, 2020

For Want of Human Parts by Casey Lucas

August 17, 2020

Finding the Center by Andrew K Hoe

August 3, 2020

Bring the Bones That Sing by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

July 15, 2020

Minutes Past Midnight by Mark Rivett

July 1, 2020

The Automatic Ballerina by Michael Milne

June 22, 2020

Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell

June 15, 2020

Synner and the Rise of the Rebel Queen by Phoebe Wagner

May 15, 2020

Everything Important in One Cardboard Box by Jason Kimble

May 1, 2020

A Promise of Dying Embers by Jordan Kurella

April 1, 2020

The Old Ones, Great and Small by Rajiv Moté

March 16, 2020

The Eat Me Drink Me Challenge by Chris Kuriata

March 2, 2020

The Cliff of Hands by Joanne Rixon

February 17, 2020

Invasion of the Water Towers by R.D. Landau

February 3, 2020

Gorilla in the Streets by Mari Ness

January 20, 2020

Beldame by Nickolas Furr

January 10, 2020

This Is What the Boogeyman Looks Like by T.J. Berg

January 1, 2020

The Problem From Jamaica Plain by Marie L. Vibbert

December 16, 2019

The Train to Wednesday by Steven Fischer

November 15, 2019

Consider the Monsters by Beth Cato

November 1, 2019

Save the God Damn Pandas by Anaea Lay

October 16, 2019

Tracing an Original Thought by Novae Caelum

October 2, 2019

Fresh Dates by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

September 20, 2019

Dear Parents, Your Child is Not the Chosen One by P.G. Galalis

September 11, 2019

Empathy Bee by Forrest Brazeal

September 2, 2019

Colonized Bodies, Desiccated Souls by Nin Harris

August 16, 2019

The Inspiration Machine by K.S. Dearsley

August 2, 2019

Lies of the Desert Fathers by Stewart Moore

July 15, 2019

Little Empire of Lakelore by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

July 1, 2019

Bootleg Jesus by Tonya Liburd

June 17, 2019

The Ceiling of the World by Nicole Crucial

June 3, 2019

Dogwood Stories by Nicole Givens Kurtz

May 15, 2019

What the Sea Reaps, We Must Provide by Eleanor R. Wood

May 1, 2019

One Part Per Billion by Samantha Mills

April 15, 2019

The Last Death by Sahara Frost

March 15, 2019

Heaven For Everyone by Aimee Ogden

March 1, 2019

How Rigel Gained a Rabbi (Briefly) by Benjamin Blattberg

February 15, 2019

Local Senior Celebrates Milestone by Matthew Claxton

February 1, 2019

The Dictionary For Dreamers by Cislyn Smith

January 21, 2019

The Man Whose Left Arm Was a Cat by Jennifer Lee Rossman

January 11, 2019

The Divided Island by Rhys Hughes

January 2, 2019

For the Last Time, It's Not a Ray Gun by Anaea Lay

December 17, 2018

The Hammer's Prayer by Benjamin C. Kinney

December 3, 2018

The Coal Remembers What It Was by Paul R. Hardy

November 16, 2018

The Memory Cookbook by Aaron Fox-Lerner

November 2, 2018

Still Life With Grave Juice by Jim Moss

October 15, 2018

Pumpkin and Glass by Sean R. Robinson

October 1, 2018

The Fisher in the Yellow Afternoon by Michael Anthony Ashley

September 17, 2018

Glass in Frozen Time by M.K. Hutchins

September 3, 2018

The Vegan Apocalypse: 50 Years Later by Benjamin A. Friedman

August 15, 2018

Medium Matters by R.K. Duncan

August 1, 2018

Jesus and Dave by Jennifer Lee Rossman

July 16, 2018

Crimson Hour by Jesse Sprague

July 2, 2018

Withholding Judgment Day by Ryan Dull

June 15, 2018

Tank! by John Wiswell

June 1, 2018

Graduation in the Time of Yog-Sothoth by James Van Pelt

May 16, 2018

Her February Face by Christie Yant

April 16, 2018

Giant Robot and the Infinite Sunset by Derrick Boden

April 2, 2018

Soft Clay by Seth Chambers

March 16, 2018

What Monsters Prowl Above the Waves by Jo Miles

March 2, 2018

Artful Intelligence by G.H. Finn

February 16, 2018

Brooklyn Fantasia by Marcy Arlin

January 15, 2018

Six Hundred Universes of Jenny Zars by Wendy Nikel

January 1, 2018

The Leviathans Have Fled the Sea by Jon Lasser

December 15, 2017

Hakim Vs. the Sweater Curse by Rachael K. Jones

December 1, 2017

Shoots and Ladders by Charles Payseur

November 15, 2017

When One Door Shuts by Aimee Ogden

November 1, 2017

Three Days of Unnamed Silence by Daniel Ausema

October 16, 2017

Lightning Dance by Tamlyn Dreaver

October 2, 2017

The Entropy of a Small Town by Thomas K. Carpenter

September 15, 2017

Strung by Xinyi Wang

September 1, 2017

Typical Heroes by Theo Kogod

August 16, 2017

For Now, Sideways by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

August 2, 2017

The Shadow Over His Mouth by Aidan Doyle

July 17, 2017

Monster of the Soup Cans by Elizabeth Barron

July 3, 2017

Regarding the Robot Raccoons Attached to the Hull of My Ship by Rachael K. Jones and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

June 16, 2017

The Existentialist Men by Gwendolyn Clare

June 2, 2017

The Aunties Return the Ocean by Chris Kuriata

May 15, 2017

The Things You Should Have Been by Andrea G. Stewart

May 1, 2017

The Long Pilgrimage of Sister Judith by Paul Starkey

April 17, 2017

O Stone, Be Not So by José Pablo Iriarte

April 3, 2017

Bloody Therapy by Suzan Palumbo

March 1, 2017

The Avatar In Us All by J.D. Carelli

February 1, 2017

Curl Up and Dye by Tina Gower

January 2, 2017

The Schismatic Element Aboard Continental Drift by Lee Budar-Danoff

December 2, 2016

The Banshee Behind Beamon's Bakery by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

November 2, 2016

October's Wedding of the Month by Emma McDonald

October 3, 2016

Do Not Question the University by PC Keeler

September 2, 2016

Sustaining Memory by Coral Moore

August 1, 2016

Future Fragments, Six Seconds Long by Alex Shvartsman

July 1, 2016

The Weight of Kanzashi by Joshua Gage

June 1, 2016

The Blood Tree War by Daniel Ausema

April 1, 2016

One's Company by Davian Aw

March 2, 2016

May Dreams Shelter Us by Kate O'Connor

February 1, 2016

The Osteomancer's Husband by Henry Szabranski

January 1, 2016

St. Roomba's Gospel by Rachael K. Jones

December 2, 2015

Giraffe Cyborg Cleans House! by Matthew Sanborn Smith

November 2, 2015

The Grave Can Wait by Thomas Berubeg

October 2, 2015

A Room For Lost Things by Chloe N. Clark

September 1, 2015

The Superhero Registry by Adam Gaylord

July 29, 2015

Not a Bird by H.E. Roulo

July 1, 2015

The Princess in the Basement by Hope Erica Schultz

June 1, 2015

In Memoriam by Rachel Reddick

May 1, 2015

Virtual Blues by Lee Budar-Danoff

March 31, 2015

Taste the Whip by Andy Dudak

March 1, 2015


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