Everybody Is in the Place
The fair comes every year with its wild music, boys, and rides, but Maybelle and Enid are far mo...
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Our Award-Winning Original Stories
Read free short fiction from sci-fi/fantasy from your favorite authors and brand new voices. Exclusively on Reactor.
Parthenogenesis
When their rental truck breaks down, two friends moving cross-country kill time by telling stori...
Have You Eaten? (The Full Series)
The complete serialized novella from Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Gailey, in which a fracture...
Vigilant
In a new Little Brother story, when schools make war on their own students, something has to giv...
Spill
In a new Little Brother novella, there is no security in obscurity. But there can be redemption...
The Unwanted Guest
Palamedes Sextus and Ianthe Tridentarius match wits on a dreamlike battlefield.
Set in Stone
A sculptor struggles when he is commanded to perpetuate the lies of a deceitful and cruel king.....
Ace Up Her Sleeve
Set in the same thrilling world as Genoveva Dimova's The Witch's Compendium of Monsters series,...
The Gulmohar of Mehranpur
In the small city of Mehranpur, the Nawab suspects there may be a connection between the slow wa...
Before the Forest
Kell Woods returns to the world of her bestselling novel, After the Forest, weaving a dark and l...
Excerpts
Read an Excerpt From Cecy Robson‘s Bloodguard
One hundred years. Tens of thousands of gladiators. And today, only one will rise…
Read an Excerpt From Karin Lowachee’s The Mountain Crown
Méka must capture a king dragon, or die trying.
Read an Excerpt From Freya Marske’s Swordcrossed
High heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel.
Read Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson: Chapters 19 and 20
Read new chapters from the new Stormlight Archive book every Monday, leading up to its release o...
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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