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Short Fiction Spotlight

covers of three short fiction magazines: Uncanny May/June 2026, Apex issue 153, and Lightspeed issue 192

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction — May 2026

By Alex Brown

June 15, 2026

covers of The Deadlands Issue 42, Fusion Fragment Issue 27, and I Spin Records Into Gold

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: April 2026

By Alex Brown

May 20, 2026

covers of three recent short fiction SFF magazines: Uncanny issue 69, Trollbreath issue 7, and Otherside issue 1

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026

By Alex Brown

April 20, 2026

covers of three SFF short fiction magazines: Adventitious issue 1; Clarkesworld issue 233; Tales & Feathers volume 4

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: February 2026

By Alex Brown

March 16, 2026

covers of 3 recent SFF magazines: Lightspeed issue 188; Fiyah issue 37; The Dark issue 128

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: January 2026

By Alex Brown

February 19, 2026

Covers of three SFF short fiction magazines: Fantasy Magazine issue 99; khoreo vol 5 issue 4; Augur issue 8.3

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: December 2025

By Alex Brown

January 21, 2026

covers of three short fiction magazines from November 2025

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: November 2025

By Alex Brown

December 18, 2025

Covers of three SFF short fiction magazines and stories

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: October 2025

By Alex Brown

November 25, 2025

covers of three recent short fiction magazines: Luna Station Quarterly issue 63; Clarkesworld issue 228; Small Wonders issue 27

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: September 2025

By Alex Brown

October 23, 2025

Covers of three short spec fic fiction magazines

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2025

By Alex Brown

September 17, 2025

Covers of The Deadlands (issue #39), Martha Wells' "Rapport, Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy", and Small Wonders (issue 25)

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: July 2025

By Alex Brown

August 14, 2025

Covers for three SFF magazines: FIYAH Issue 35; Khoreo Volume 5, Issue 2; Apex Magazine Issue 150

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Short Fiction Spotlight

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: June 2025

By Alex Brown

July 15, 2025

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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