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Brian Ames Prayer for the Dying - Issue 8
Julia August Delia’s Door - Issue 28 |
Daniel Ausema Scolyard’s “The Constructs Forsee Their Doom” - Issue 23 |
Neil Ayers In the Rose Garden - Issue 16 | Coma - Issue 10
D. Morgan Ballmer That Old Family Tree - Issue 25
Kelly Barnhill Tabula Rasa - Issue 18 |
Laird Barron Hour of the Cyclops - Issue 6 |
M. Bennardo The Night Nurse - Issue 31 | The Book in Dutch - Issue 22 |
H. David Blalock To Our Brothers - Issue 7
R.S. Bohn Judith of Lions - Issue 22 |
Jennifer Hollie Bowles Inside the Ganges - Issue 20
Lisa M. Bradley The Starfish - Issue 12 |
Lida Broadhurst Miyagu - Issue 17
Adam Browne A Retrospective - Issue 27 | The Biologie of Paradise - Issue 19 |
Georgina Bruce Witchwood - Issue 19
Andi C. Buchanan A Consensus Told in Chromatophores - Issue 32 |
Kealan Patrick Burke The End of Mr. Blame - Issue 12 |
Nadia Bulkin The Five Stages of Grief - Issue 17 |
Octavia Cade Imago - Issue 32
Seth Cadin No Signal - Issue 20
Woody Carsky-Wilson The Felon - Issue 13
Dixon Chance The Murmurous Paleoscope - Issue 23
Vajra Chandrasekera The Bombardier - Issue 32 | Terminus - Issue 29 | The Calf - Issue 24 |
Saswati Chatterjee Mango - Issue 33
Emmie Christie Shaken Loose - Issue 33
Michael Christie The Stinking Creep - Issue 2
Miranda Ciccone And Their Hearts As Engines - Issue 17
Jai Clare Mascots and Martyrs - Issue 14 | The Roof of God - Issue 5 |
Brendan Connell Orach - Issue 9
Gary W. Conner Swim In Sediment - Issue 12 | These Stand for Me - Issue 1
Brian J. Conrad Angel of the Sand - Issue 8
Laura Cooney The Rubee - Issue 15
Lawrence Conquest Big in Japan - Issue 23 |
John Craig The Belly of the Night - Issue 1
Ward Crockett Doors of Seconds - Issue 18
Matthew Chrulew Burning in the Banshee's Absence - Issue 17 |
Tim Curran The Moon in Their Eyes - Issue 11 | Noctulos - Issue 6 |
Thomas Deja Rats From Spain - Issue 11
Michael J. DeLuca Decay - Issue 28 |
Kristi DeMeester The Bee Queen - Issue 32 | Learning to Drown - Issue 29 | The Marking - Issue 27 |
Corrine De Winter Tuesdays After Midnight - Issue 2 |
Lauren Dixon Floating Feathers, Wings Red and Wild - Issue 29 | Sheela of the Good Shepherd - Issue 25 |
Michael S. Dodd The Madwoman - Issue 2
Dorothea Duenow Abilene - Issue 13
R. K. Duncan Six Spiral Iterations of a Memory - Issue 33
Mae Empson The Eel Question - Issue 22 |
Jaq Evans Scales - Issue 30 |
Brian Evenson Jenny Longlegs - Issue 34 |
Corey Farrenkopf The Tap Tap Tap of a Beak - Issue 35 |
Isaac Fellows Fighting Fate - Issue 17
Gemma Files One in the Morning and One at Night - Issue 23 | Pretend That We’re Dead - Issue 7 |
AJ Fitzwater Fault Lines - Issue 29 |
April French Oddities - Issue 13
R. David Fulcher The Bogeyman, Pt. II - Issue 2
C.S. Fuqua The Occasional Demon - Issue 7 |
Cody Goodfellow The Touring Car - Issue 30 | Feast of the Ixiptla - Issue 15 |
Amy Grech Rampart - Issue 10 |
Brenden Haukos Isabelle - Issue 15
Markus Harmon Papers from a Deserted House - Issue 3
Jason Hauser A Thorn in Nevelshelle’s Side - Issue 16 |
Alex Hernandez The Jicotea Princess - Issue 28
Christopher Hivner The Silence - Issue 4
Tory Hoke The Body in the Narrows - Issue 24 |
Miles Hurt The Burning One - Issue 21 |
Marc Hutcheson William’s Relic - Issue 8
Mel Kassel Negligible Senescence - Issue 28 |
Paula Keane Dream Catchers - Issue 34
Keffy R. M. Kehrli She Dances on Knives - Issue 26 |
Chris Kelso Jenny Longlegs - Issue 34 |
Jaxton Kimble None of Mine Bled Dry - Issue 34 |
Gwendolyn Kiste Something Borrowed, Something Blue - Issue 27 |
Joe Koch Oakmoss and Ambergris - Issue 35 |
DeAnna Knippling Bad House Spirit - Issue 26 | The Edge of the World - Issue 20 |
Kelly Lagor A Selection of Tissues - Issue 34 |
Claude Lalumière Prelude to Byzantium - Issue 26 | At the World Tree Hotel - Issue 26 | The Hecate Centuria - Issue 23 |
Justin Lee Totentanz - Issue 20
D.F. Lewis Murky’s Tales - Issue 5 | Dark House Lane - Issue 3 |
Rich Logsdon The Impaling of Jenny Curtis - Issue 5
Edward C. Lynskey Zombie - Issue 15
Darja Malcolm-Clarke Of Cog and Feather - Issue 15
J.M. McDermott Salt Gator Girl as Joe M. McDermott - Issue 33 |Fox in the Fields - Issue 26 | I Will Trade With You - Issue 23 | The End of Her World - Issue 19 |
Katie McIvor We Bleed Water - Issue 35
John Medaille Union Member #448 - Issue 18
Kyle E. Miller Ringing the Changes - Issue 30 |
Stephen Minchin All That’s Best - Issue 9
Samuel Minier Reflecting House - Issue 14 |
Sunny Moraine The Cold Death of Papa November - Issue 21 |
Edward Morris Jihad Over Innsmouth - Issue 16 |
Michelle Muenzler Hoarfrost - Issue 22 |
Alexandra Munck Beast Do - Issue 30
Mary Musselman Eye of the Beholder - Issue 10
Shweta Narayan Kohl-lined - Issue 20 |
Mari Ness Offgrid - Issue 26 | Dreams of Elephants and Ice - Issue 18 |
Christi Nogle Cocooning - Issue 31 |
Nikki J. North What a Wolf Wants - Issue 28 |
Dirk van Nouhuys The Swan - Issue 16 |
Kevin Oatley Demon Seed - Issue 14 | The Excelsior
Simon Owens There Are Kittens Better Than These - Issue 14 |
Dru Pagliassotti Peter, Peter - Issue 13 |
Shannon Peavey Saturn is Devouring His Children - Issue 33 |
Cameron Pierce On Lonesome Tides - Issue 29
Graeme Penman Forever - Issue 16 |
Cat Rambo At the End of the Song, a Ghost is Waiting - Issue 31 | Eggs of Stone - Issue 25 |
Claudius Reich Snowdrift - Issue 6
Jessica Reisman The Demon of Russet Street - Issue 27 | A Feather’s Weight - Issue 19 |
Zandra Renwick Elephant Teeth - Issue 31 |
Andrew Penn Romine No God West of Pearceville - Issue 24 |
Xan van Rooyen Sonata Apocalyptica - Issue 32 |
Cheryl W. Ruggiero Botch’s Astronomy - Issue 19
Sara Saab Little Seller of La Quarantaine - Issue 27
Vicki Saunders Carpe Chelonian - Issue 27 | Whale Woman Watches - Issue 24
Steven Saus Hard Lesson - Issue 21 |
Brett A. Savory A Room of Incense - Issue 2 |
Holly Schofield Kintsukuroi of the Lucky Few - Issue 34 |
Vera Searles The Same Song Every Midnight - Issue 16
Steve Sidor Snowcatters - Issue 9 |
Beecher Smith The Burrower From the Bluff - Issue 4 |
Chloe Smith Narrative of an Unnamed Supplicant - Issue 34
Thomas Lee Joseph Smith The Last Idea - Issue 11
H. Turnip Smith Toyland - Issue 1
Darren Speegle Porta Nigra - Issue 8
Jennifer Stakes The Birdstories of Jaywalker - Issue 20
Prashanth Srivatsa A Girl at the End of the World - Issue 31
Ferrett Steinmetz The Bliss Machine - Issue 25 | Riding Atlas - Issue 22 | Dead Prophecies - Issue 19 |
David Stevens The Gods of the Gaps - Issue 29 | Some Corner of a Dorset Field that is Forever Arabia Issue 25 |
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Where You Come From - Issue 26 |
Bret Tallman The Far Bank - Issue 21 | The Tab - Issue 17
Lester Thees The Kartoupelos - Issue 3
Leah Thomas The Drove - Issue 25
Steve Toase The Silent Brush of Wings - Issue 30 |
E. Catherine Tobler Becomes the Color - Issue 35 | True in His Fashion - Issue 31 | In the Otherwise Dark - Issue 28 | Ladybird - Issue 22 |
Nick Tramdack The Smile - Issue 21 |
Chuck Von Nordheim Apotheosis of Deacon J - Issue 18
Tim Waggoner Simulacrum - Issue 4 |
Wendy N. Wagner The Last Doll War - Issue 21 |
Kali Wallace The Virtue Retreats from the Land of Snow and Sky - Issue 30
D. Elizabeth Wasden Convergence - Issue 18
Clay Waters Ten-foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Issue 15 |
Aliya Whiteley Glum Dreams - Issue 24 |
A.C. Wise Her Last Breath Before Waking - Issue 24 |
David J. Wright Contract Work - Issue 12
Lee Clark Zumpe Saurian Bridge - Issue 10 |
Lucy Zhang Grafting - Issue 33
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Oct. 30, 2021 — Open call for submissions. We are especially interested in stories from BIPOC writers, LGBTQIA+ writers. Read our submission guidelines.
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