The year is young, and short stories are just starting to roll out. If you need more distraction, you can find last years’ fiction here, and even more from before that here.
Short Fiction
- Take a PASTWORLD trip to the Last Polar Ice Cap (forthcoming). Augur Magazine, 2024 flash fiction contest winner.
- In the style of banshees keening (forthcoming). The Forge Literary Magazine
- Bone-eater Earth (forthcoming). Uncharted
- 25 peppercorns (forthcoming). Mythaxis
- Instructions for rewilding the wasteland (forthcoming). Radon Journal
- Monsters in the tenement (Feb 2025). Foofaraw
- Cozy horror where some slugmonsters play hide and seek. High quality literature.
- Translucent katabasis (Feb 2025, Issue 44).
- A truly sad story. But tea might help.
- CW: maternal death, child death, suicide
- After boom (Jan 2025). Nature:Futures
- Post-apocalyptic expansion. About as depressing as you’d expect.
- Lovely review in Myna Chang’s Feb 2025 Flash Roundup.
Microfiction
- Tell me about your mother (forthcoming). Crab Tales Magazine
- Perfectly down (2025). Friday Flash Fiction