Uncharted Mag

Silent Words Like Peace Enfolding - Uncharted Outside the International Space Station, I hook my white EMU boots beneath two metal rails and stretch, eliciting a sharp crack from my ribs. This EVA is taking forever. Alone, my partner replaced by ...

New SFF story by Brandon Case!

"Outside the International Space Station, I hook my white EMU boots beneath two metal rails and stretch, eliciting a sharp crack from my ribs. This EVA is taking forever."

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/sile...

Funny Thing About the Hands… - Uncharted I visited the peat bog just before dawn, when the morning fog was still heavy, hovering over the carpet of peat like a damp blanket. Earlier that morning, I’d noticed peat dried and nailed to the wind...

My new story “Funny Thing About The Hands…” just dropped on Uncharted Magazine! I’m so excited to be part of this publication!
@unchartedmag.bsky.social
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/funn...

Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted “This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Love Story in Colored Glass by Phoenix Alexander in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Oh, I love this prose. Some really beautiful imagery here. And an ending that rings like a bell.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

S/D/Y Jan 30 – Lanugo by Ash Vale – Uncharted I had to look up what lanugo meant, so if nothing else I learned something from this story that I wouldn’t have done otherwise. I don’t know if it’s the fact that pregnancy is not…

Day 30! I read Lanugo by @ashvalewrites.bsky.social published in @unchartedmag.bsky.social. Have you ever though, 'you're so sweet, I could et you up?'. Read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/s...

The Kleiner-Hussain Spaceport Hotel - Uncharted If it were anything other than a major hotel, the Kleiner-Hussain Spaceport Hotel would not have existed long enough to be this haunted, and yet. The problem with space travel has always been that gho...

"The problem with space travel has always been that ghosts dislocated from their origins are worse than ghosts left where they belong..."

@unchartedmag.bsky.social

Bone-Eater Earth - Uncharted I lose my finger during the private flight back from Japan. It isn’t the whole finger, of course, just the bone. When I drugged myself into oblivion at the start of the flight, it was totally fine. Wh...

“There’s been loads of media coverage about spontaneous osteotruncation. No? Vanishing bone syndrome? You must have heard. There was a whole campaign. Maybe read the pamphlet, and it won’t happen again”

By @slashnburnett.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...

Re-upping my eligible works for Hugo nominations! These trio of delinquents can be found @bafflingmag.bsky.social, @unchartedmag.bsky.social, and The Dark.

Links to everything at phoenixalexanderauthor.com! 🙏🤓

Yes, exactly. What @lindzmcleod.bsky.social said. Except you’ll find me under ‘Bone-eater Earth’ which was in @unchartedmag.bsky.social.

Super many thanks to @wishusdonna.bsky.social for pulling this book together. It looks wicked!

I can't nom or vote the Hugos, because for two years straight they've held WorldCon in one of the most dangerous countries on this here planet and just no.

But if you're a nommer/voter, please consider Bone-Eater Earth, published by @unchartedmag.bsky.social.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...

Love seeing friends on this list - & I especially love seeing an @unchartedmag.bsky.social story in the TOC! Huge congrats to @slashnburnett.bsky.social for "Bone-Eater Earth!"

We're thrilled to showcase your writing!

The Show Must Go - Uncharted Cirque stole the elephant’s bridle from its gilded chest. In the lee where midnight loitered on the toes of dawn, Cirque pocketed all they could and fled the Stage for the last time. Weighed down by h...

Thank you, Charles!! I had “The Show Must Go” out in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/the-...

10 days to go!

It’s possible that I’m biased (heh) but I think @unchartedmag.bsky.social publishes amazing stories & I wish reviewers & roundup writers would include us more often in their reading. Our authors are phenomenal & they deserve a bigger spotlight!

Here are a few recent examples:

We're thrilled to showcase your writing!

Come Back - Uncharted It came again. That shuf-shuf-shuffle of ragged fabric on bare stone. That tapping; that endless tapping. Blackened bone on cold cement. Not his bare stone, no. Not his cold cement. Not here in his tw...

I have a new short story published! It's kind of Toronto finance bro comeuppance by way of Edgar Allan Poe. Check out "Come Back" in @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/come...

Funny Thing About the Hands… - Uncharted I visited the peat bog just before dawn, when the morning fog was still heavy, hovering over the carpet of peat like a damp blanket. Earlier that morning, I’d noticed peat dried and nailed to the wind...

New Thrilling story by @tammykomoff.bsky.social

"I visited the peat bog just before dawn, when the morning fog was still heavy, hovering over the carpet of peat like a damp blanket."

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/funn...

Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted “This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

This story has everything I want in spec fic - take a few minutes to read it! ❤️

@dracopoullos.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Wow, that sounds captivating! 🌌✨ I love the idea of a stone being the key to travel—so much potential for adventure! Can't wait to read more! #SFF #BookLovers 📚💖

If you like a multiverse love story, have I got a recommendation for you.

Bone-Eater Earth - Uncharted I lose my finger during the private flight back from Japan. It isn’t the whole finger, of course, just the bone. When I drugged myself into oblivion at the start of the flight, it was totally fine. Wh...

Bone-eater Earth was in @unchartedmag.bsky.social.
If we don’t get our act together, Mother Earth is gonna make some big decisions for us. So, hey, maybe we consider degrowth, instead?
CW: amputation, rude language, techbros

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...

Spirit alembic keeper - Uncharted Alembics line the walls, rounded and bulbous glasses blown in bubbly greens and creamy whites and swirling yellow-blues. Their contents shift and churn of their own accord, some in slow dancing waves,...

Spirit alembic keeper, released by @unchartedmag.bsky.social.

August keeps the spirits, war takes the bodies.
CW: war, oppression, depression
NB: I love this story so much, but it didn't make many waves. Please read & consider hugging August & their alembics.
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/spir...

Hoping to see this one on some awards lists - check it out!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted “This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd! My new story in @unchartedmag.bsky.social enfolds Tarot, dimensional fractures, crystalline body horror - and a love that persists across every reality.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

Lanugo - Uncharted The Hunger haunts me most when I’m nauseous, which feels like it’s all the time these days. Morning sickness, my ass. I throw up at a minimum once per day, and it’s not just in the morning. The nausea...

"The Hunger haunts me most when I’m nauseous, which feels like it’s all the time these days."

Check out this new story by @ashvalewrites.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social!

Those Who Run - Uncharted The tiger didn’t watch anyone, didn’t see their phones being pulled out of back pockets, didn’t see a mother gasp and hold her child back, didn’t even see the car that slammed its brakes to avoid ente...

Delighted that @unchartedmag.bsky.social nominated Thoe Who Run for a Pushcart 🥺

Absolutely floored to have not one but two of my novel excerpts selected for the longlist of the @unchartedmag.bsky.social What the Wild Carries contest last week! Here’s hoping the judge is looking for either spooky or beach bum vibes this winter! 💙📚📝
@writingcommunity.bsky.social #writing

Snow Like Ash - Uncharted You leave before the birds can begin to sing. And though the elders rise, stone-faced, to strap a sword to your belt, no one comes with you; this is not their journey, after all, not the way it is you...

"Color is finally bleeding back into the world when you slow to a stop before the first line of trees.

“I have come to slay the dragon,” you declare, though the woods, of course, do not respond."

Fall in love with this story! Snow Like Ash by Sophia Zhao in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

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Great news!

I just signed a contract with Uncharted Magazine @unchartedmag.bsky.social to publish my story “Funny Thing About the Hands…” in January!

I’m so excited to be a part of this awesome publication!