2024 awards eligible stories

Resident tracker – Androids and Dragons. A gentle AI story about change and acceptance.

I applaud as the stars shoot across the sky – Northern Gravy. It’s a sad, magical relationship story, where big decisions are being made, but maybe not by you.

Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]– Nature:Futures. You need to keep up to date with the fungal outbreak. (DM if you need a copy of the full story)

Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber – Nature:Futures. You too can learn new skills! Meet new lifeforms! See the universe! Sign up to work on intergalactic spaceships today. (DM if you need a copy of the full story)

Breakup, breakdown, breakfast – Manawaker Studio. A sweet, soft story about a kid, a breakup, a mother, and some comforting reanimated animal constructs.

Welcome. Don’t be afraid. – Triangulation: Hospitium. After death, before forever, relax. Take a moment. Have a cup of tea. (DM for a copy of the story).

Softer shades of zap and blue – Radon Journal. A topical story where even robots nope out of doing death and battlefields.

With nothing left – Mythaxis Magazine. A gentle, platonic love story involving a caregiver, their person, and unauthorised fun.

Short stories

Escape choice – The Future Fire. The struggles of being a neurospicy kid in space.

At a higher dose, love – Daikaijuzine. Is human photosynthesis the future we need to avert climate change?

Friends in high places – Mythaxis Magazine. Join a priest, a scribe, and a whore on a sideways take on fantasy quests, which leads you through the forest to the beginning of the story.

Marked unread – Extrasensory Overload: An anthology of speculative excess. A space tragedy about when it’s all too much, and then it gets worse (DM for story).

A study of the common vampire – JAKE. It is a common misconception that vampire’s teeth point downwards. Academ-fic, fully referenced.