The Nölmyna
The star skeptic from a haunted house reality show finds herself in a jam when she discovers her...
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Squid Teeth
A woman talented in the art of spinning--creating pottery by manipulating clay in her mouth--lon...
Human Resources
Set years before Adrian Tchaikovsky’s SERVICE MODEL, the newly-promoted head of Human Resources...
Liberation
A young woman is recruited to be part of Nigeria's first ever space mission, but things go awry...
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets...
After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens
Two ex-military nurses, one human and one alien, share a friendship in a city following an alien...
The Shape of Stones
As a young scholar sets out on a research project to find the stones where the settlers of Icela...
Landline
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers t...
The Witch and the Wyrm
A new story set in the world of “The Red Mother.” Hacksilver riddled with a dragon, saved his fa...
Agate Way
A pair of sisters are hired to find--and if necessary, dispose of--whatever is killing neighborh...
Excerpts
Read an Excerpt From A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry
I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse.
Read an Excerpt From That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller
There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does grav...
Read an Excerpt From The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
Status is hereditary, class is bestowed, trust must be earned.
Read Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi: Chapters 5-9
Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much—least of all trouble—but trouble always seems...
Reprints
Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale
There's more to “once upon a time” than meets the eye...
The Woman Carrying a Corpse
We’re excited to reprint “The Woman Carrying a Corpse” by Chi Hui, translated from Chinese...
The Stars We Raised
We’re delighted to share “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from C...
A Dream of Electric Mothers
We're excited to reprint "A Dream of Electric Mothers," the 2023 Nebula Award–nominated novelett...
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