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Read free short fiction from sci-fi/fantasy from your favorite authors and brand new voices. Exclusively on Reactor.
The Perpetual Post
A time-traveling transgalactic delivery worker's latest delivery has less to do with galactic ev...
This Is Not My Timeline
A queer couple escapes persecution by buying a home in an almost identical dimension.
This Fleshy Side of the Bone
While mourning the sudden death of his family’s first dog, a college student recounts the tale o...
I Spin Records Into Gold
Amid the glitz and glamor of the 1970s American rock scene, a mysterious music exec promises an...
The Day-Blind Stars
An Earth explorer in search of something new and strange in the up and out ends up traveling thr...
Let’s Go to the Zoo
Equipped with two sandwiches, a couple sets out to the zoo to see the one totally sane human bei...
Tatterdemalion
In a traditional folktale from Alak, a dreamy good-for-nothing young woman seeking excitement di...
Cutting Corners
A team of pilots is trained to fly ships in a war where it's become cheaper to send humans inste...
Blade Through the Heart
Graff and his crew face a particularly nasty challenge – an opponent so low-tech they might just...
Excerpts
Read an Excerpt From The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley
The stakes are high, the love is forbidden, and the slow burn turns steamy…
Read an Excerpt From Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne
Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a mete...
Read an Excerpt From The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus
Deep into space soars The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every...
Read an Excerpt From Where You’ll Find Us by Jen St. Jude
A trans teen finds a home where queer kids from all different decades have found refuge from hat...
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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