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"Shrinkage!" By Ashlee Lhamon. Apex Magazine Issue 152
"With tanks, the tours would last only an hour. With tethers, we can stay in the dark for days and days." 🫧⚫
New fiction today by Ashlee Lhamon: "Shrinkage!"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
We love the many layered approach to story-telling in "The Founding of Zeget" by Diana Dima. History as document and act and act of documenting:
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Live in BCS #450 and podcast 357, Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies" @nassos.bsky.social "—she the ship wonders at her cavities and hollows wonders am I an I am I my cargo does the I I am contain a multitude of rocks?—" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/medu...
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Cover of the February 2026 issue of Penumbric, found at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/cover.html
It's alive! Some (dis)assembly may be required. You'll see what I mean. Find #Penumbric's February issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and the pdf at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#magazine #cover #scifi #fantasy #horror #art #poetry #fiction
An excerpt of the short story "Fragments of Sky in Quantum Grief" by Lex Chamberlin, in Issue 22 of Haven Spec Magazine (February 2026). The text reads: The pieces did not trickle down at the start—they fell in sheets that peeled off like expired wallpaper, leaving a starless abyss gaping wide overhead. It’s been months now. The deluge has slowed some: a chip here, a sliver there, carving a dark and crooked chunk from the otherwise perfect summer sky. But it’s always at its worst where I’m currently biding my time, on a gritty towel in the shadow of some oversized driftwood—she loved the beach more than anywhere else. Someone too much like her runs past, and my heart clenches... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Harmonies of the Harvest, by Matthew Spencer. It shows a figure with a human body and a deer head.
👀February 2026 Fiction👀
"Fragments of Sky in Quantum Grief" is a story by Lex Chamberlin about how grief tears holes in the world. Read this one for its private suffering and its hard-won hope.
Available in our next issue!
What creatures will you be, when you "Dream the Sea"? Read Clara Ward's Hawaiian mountain shrimp and pleated nerite here:
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"Dark Siren" by Irina Tall, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/tallSiren.html
Saturday art from December's #Penumbric: "Dark Siren" by Irina Tall, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#art #artwork #artist #horror #fantasy #HorrorArt
Finding myself near the cutting edge of treatment for advanced macular degeneration was not on my bucket list, but here we are. In any previous decade, the outlook may have been grim. Today, progressive vision loss has turned a corner to measurable improvement.
go.dfstory.com/macular
The Sunday Morning Transport tries to go back for a beloved today with a story from David Bowles (@davidobowles.bsky.social), the latest in his Midwife series. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole series!
08.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Looks like a good survey to take part in, especially if you're a reader of Inner Worlds.
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"She knew her time was ending. Just days, but she didn’t feel the strum of pain or the numbness of morphine. She just felt tired."
join us, beloveds, for today's must read NONFICTION 🖤
Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen by Robin Wheeler
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New (double!) Issue: BCS #450 Science-Fantasy Month 8! Stories Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social and Ewen Ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social today, @rhiannonheld.bsky.social and @eskaftun.bsky.social next week (but in ebook now), podcast of Theodoridou. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
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"I’ve Seen the Movie" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle (@mcardlejeanne.bsky.social), in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/mcardleMovie.html
“Before I had to watch the movie, I had a cat just like this one.”
-from "I’ve Seen the Movie" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle (@mcardlejeanne.bsky.social), in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #scifi #dystopia
The first story from Issue #13 is now free to read!
Jude Kar's "The Coffinmaker" is a surreal trip through the final days of Caspian - a coffinmaker, an artist - as he attracts the ire of the camel-headed locals and raises questions about what we leave behind when we're gone.
If you heed the call of adventure, you will surely also have "A List of Sharp Things I've Held In My Mouth." Some of the items in J. Kosakowski's poem might surprise you, though...
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"Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo (@ghostlyverse.bsky.social), in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/loschiavoWolf.html
In January, howling starts before
The Wolf Moon fattens, rouses appetites.
-from "Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo (@ghostlyverse.bsky.social), in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poetry #horror
Gangsters, booze, love, dads, and stealing time - it’s Free Fiction Friday. From Alex Atkins magazine.trollbreath.com/tempus/
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POETRY by Alison Clara Tan The Sunfish Considers Flotation Therapy Quote Don’t know why they bob? In blue death boxes? Sunless wreck. 2 February 2026 Strange Horizons
The Sunfish Considers Flotation Therapy
by Alison Clara Tan
"Don’t know why they
bob? In blue death boxes? Sunless wreck."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
FICTION Quote From the window of the nursery, Wendy saw Jane wobbling her way down Kensington Park Road on a borrowed bicycle, hair unbraided and wild like she’d been flying. Wendy’s throat seized with fear. Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way? end Quote Mother, Darling by Allison Pottern 2 February 2026 Strange Horizons
Mother, Darling
by Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social
"Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way?"
Link ⬇️
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#shortstories #fiction #fantasy
Are unicorns your jam? Well grab a slice of toast and give "At the Edge of the Tale" by @authortrsteele.bsky.social a go
We love it, and we hope you will, too!
👀January 2026 Poetry👀
ICYMI, "Queercoded Villanelle" is a poem by anaum sajanlal about how memory itself can serve as sacred practice. Read it for its grief and survival.
havenspec.com/poetry/queer...
"The latter half of the roll was tainted by light. From red glares, to pallid frames of exposure, like blood pouring into the whiteness of hell."
NEW FICTION, beloveds!!
On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” by @prairieandzoyd.bsky.social
💀🖤
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If you've been mulling over buying a physical copy of FF or Saros, our printer is having a 25% off sale that runs through tomorrow. Here's the link to our latest!
www.blurb.ca/b/12602785-f...
front cover of Plott Hound Issue 1 with a black wolf holding a snake in its jaws
Want to paw through some foxy nonfiction? Well we've got you covered. Check out "Foxes are Totally Trustworthy (Until They Aren't)" by Yoon Ha Lee
We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/foxes-are-to...
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
ICYMI, "A Tree is not a Home" is a short story by @dianadima.com about seeking refuge wherever you might find it. Read it for the quiet grief and pain embodied by its birch tree narrator.
havenspec.com/fiction/a-tr...
"Krishnan captures the trio’s love, lust, loyalty, joy, and sorrows in a way that feels devastatingly real." (on "Ichthyosis")
Maria Haskins aka @mariahaskins.com has fantastic things to say about Issue 99 in the February Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social !❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Need some more poetry in your life? Give "Cold Blood" by Krity Ettel a read.
We love it, and we hope you will, too!
"Come and Play" by Deborah L. Davitt, in December's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/davittPlay.html
They weren't supposed to be nightmare-fuel
-from "Come and Play" by Deborah L. Davitt, in December's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poet #poetry #horror
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
An excerpt of the short story "A Tree is not a Home" by Diana Dima, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads: A tree is not a home. But you, twelve years old and bony, dragging a suitcase behind a gray mother into the gray building where you were now going to live, looked back at me as though it was all wrong. As though the building should have been me. You came out soon afterwards, walked across the parking lot and over the low wire fence into my patch of land. (I saw you, in a manner of speaking, like an arrow rushing at me in the dark.) I could tell that you had never seen a birch before. You pressed your cheek... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
"A Tree is not a Home" is a short story by @dianadima.com about seeking refuge wherever you might find it. Read it for the quiet grief and pain embodied by its birch tree narrator.
Subscribers can read it now!
