The Future Fire: fiction index

Fiction Index

The Future Fire publishes socio-political speculative fiction in all genres, but with a particular taste for Cyberpunk, Feminist SF, Queer SF and Eco-SF. Any story that takes a world unlike our own in one small way (be it science fiction set in the future, speculative in the past, a fantastic parallel universe, a psychedelic dream) and uses that setting to examine some aspect of our own world with a social and political conscience, is broadly within our purview… so long as we think it's great. Surprise us. Challenge the expectations of our commodified little world.

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Fiction index

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Poems

“All I Ever Wanted to Be”, Goran Lowie, 2023 (28 lines)
“Between Scylla and Charybdis”, Carina Bissett, 2023 (53 lines)
“Bone Planet”, Petra Kuppers, 2024 (14 lines)
“The Cassandra Effect”, M. Frost, 2025 (22 lines)
“charybdis”, Marisca Pichette, 2022 (38 lines)
“Dissolution”, Danielle Levsky, 2025 (66 lines)
“The Fungal Force: A History”, Colleen Anderson, 2023 (55 lines)
“Going Under”, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, 2023 (13 lines)
“Guidelines for Living Your Fairy Tale (in no Particular Order)”, Amanda Cook, 2024 (46 lines)
“Homunculi of Creation”, Avra Margariti, 2024 (38 lines)
“How Magic Will Help You Take the Bastards Down”, Beth Cato, 2023 (45 lines)
“How to Plant an Olive Tree on the Moon When All Is Lost”, Elena S. Kotsile, 2023 (14 lines)
“In Our Nature”, Colleen Anderson, 2026 (27 lines)
“Interstellar Wallflower”, Samuel Lowd Goldstein, 2023 (35 lines)
“The Later Life of Herr Samsa’s Picture”, Elizabeth R. McClellan, 2023 (68 lines)
“Mageochory”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2023 (19 lines)
“Manipulating the Light”, Mahaila Smith, 2024 (42 lines)
“A Moon Witch Seeks a Shell”, Devan Barlow, 2024 (25 lines)
“Mycelial”, Lisa Timpf, 2023 (36 lines)
“Raised”, Deborah Harford, 2025 (22 lines)
“Reasonable Accommodations”, Nicole J. LeBoeuf, 2022 (14 lines)
“Salt as a Second Language”, Abigail Dereje, 2026 (29 lines)
“ship of living ghosts”, Davian Aw, 2026 (36 lines)
“The Ships That Sang”, Jess Cho, 2024 (34 lines)
“Smells of Brine, Witching”, Devin Miller, 2023 (24 lines)
“Solitary”, David Birch Ellis, 2023 (22 lines)
“Sunrise over Neo-Tokyo”, Lae Astra, 2024 (26 lines)
“Two Hybrids”, Rachel Rodman, 2024 (179 lines)
“Unformed”, Veda Villiers, 2025 (81 lines)
“The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight”, Naomi Simone Borwein, 2025 (115 lines)
“We Don't Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End”, Jordan Hirsch, 2022 (43 lines)
“The Weight of Winter”, Kaya Skovdatter, 2026 (38 lines)
“What Heroines Read”, Mary Soon Lee, 2024 (16 lines)
“Why Would I Be a Woman”, L.A. Hyland, 2026 (11 lines)

Flash fiction

“AITA for throwing away my wife’s haunted dolls?”, Annika Barranti Klein, 2022 (890 words)
“Believe Me”, Christine Amsden, 2026 (990 words)
“Collective Bargaining”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1000 words)
“The End of Rain”, Zoe Kaplan, 2024 (720 words)
“Huddle”, Monica Joyce Evans, 2023 (720 words)
“A Multitude of Sparks Descend”, Marc A. Criley, 2026 (700 words)
“Pirouettes in Weightlessness”, A. Zaykova, 2023 (400 words)
“A Sea Change”, Shelly Jones, 2022 (1000 words)
“Solarpunk Letters: Seeds of Change”, Joyce Chng, 2023 (290 words)
“Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain”, Marc A. Criley, 2024 (830 words)

Short stories

“All That Water”, Eris Young, 2025 (3200 words)
“Between the Shadow and the Soul”, Davian Aw, 2023 (6000 words)
“Born of the Mountain's Chill”, Louise Hughes, 2025 (2800 words)
“Boxes Full of Memories”, Sean R. Robinson, 2023 (2800 words)
“Break Free This Ground”, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, 2026 (1100 words)
“Bridge”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2022 (6000 words)
“Bright Bleeding Girls”, J.L. George, 2025 (5400 words)
“Crumb Cutie Exodus”, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, 2023 (4500 words)
“Dare Seize the Fire”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2025 (6000 words)
“Deep Sea Baby”, Faith Allington, 2024 (2100 words)
“Deirdre’s Skin”, Amalie N. Ingham, 2024 (3300 words)
“Escape Choice”, Emma Burnett, 2024 (2800 words)
“Featured Exhibit: Drop in a Bucket”, Ziggy Schutz, 2025 (2000 words)
“The Fox and the Snake”, Timothy Yeo, 2022 (5000 words)
“Fruiting Bodies”, Lyra Meurer, 2026 (3100 words)
“His New Body”, Simon Kewin, 2023 (3000 words)
“In the Field”, Shelly Jones, 2024 (2600 words)
“Just as You Are”, Juliet Kemp, 2023 (5000 words)
“Live off the Land”, Toby MacNutt, 2023 (1800 words)
“Microseasons of the Dead”, Vanessa Fogg, 2023 (1500 words)
“Minotaur”, Jaime Gill, 2025 (5500 words)
“New Day Dawning”, Francesca Forrest, 2022 (6000 words)
“Nightingale’s Lament”, Laura Gregory, 2022 (2000 words)
“One Day”, Frances Koziar, 2023 (1700 words)
“Out of Bounds”, Anna Ziegelhof, 2023 (3900 words)
“A Prayer to St Jude”, M. Bennardo, 2022 (5800 words)
“The Protector of the Forest”, Katie Conrad, 2026 (7300 words)
“Purity”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2023 (3100 words)
“The Rose Sisterhood”, Susan Taitel, 2024 (2000 words)
“Safe in a Malachite Storm”, Devin Miller, 2025 (1700 words)
“Salt and Smoke”, Storm Blakley, 2022 (3200 words)
“Seams of Iron”, Adriana C. Grigore, 2022 (6400 words)
“Sentinel”, Lauren Ferebee, 2025 (3700 words)
“Seven Stories for Now and Later”, Nancy S. Koven, 2025 (3000 words)
“The Shape of Her Shadow”, Alexandra Brandt, 2024 (6000 words)
“Side Effects May Vary”, Avra Margariti, 2023 (3300 words)
“Song of Your Life”, Nicole Lungerhausen, 2022 (3100 words)
“The Sons of Victor Levitak”, Rowley Amato, 2025 (6400 words)
“Space Gardens”, L.J. Lacey, 2024 (2000 words)
“Spindle House”, Jennifer Hudak, 2022 (3000 words)
“Terranueva”, Katie Kopajtic, 2024 (2800 words)
“That Small, Hard Thing on the Back of Your Neck”, Vanessa Fogg, 2024 (3300 words)
“The Heart of the Party”, Sarah Day, 2022 (5800 words)
“The Thousand Tongues of Sara”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1700 words)
“Titanium Chef”, Crystal Koo, 2026 (3800 words)
“Transmogrification”, R.M. Pérez-Padilla, 2024 (6000 words)
“Treacle Blood”, Joyce Chng, 2022 (1500 words)
“Treading Invisible Threads”, Juliet Kemp, 2025 (4700 words)
“The Trident-Tailed Water Monster”, Rae Zalopany, 2026 (4700 words)
“Turnabout”, Ana Wesley, 2025 (6100 words)
“Unblooded Gospel”, Justin Taroli, 2025 (5900 words)
“Unspoilt”, Louise Hughes, 2022 (4300 words)
“The Visitor”, Sylvie Althoff, 2026 (5000 words)
“We Were Ghostless Against Her”, Ioanna Papadopoulou, 2022 (4600 words)
“We Will See”, L.F. Howard, 2026 (4900 words)
“Whiskey Mud”, Jonathan Olfert, 2024 (2200 words)
“A Witch, a Wakening”, Laura Blackwell, 2024 (2200 words)
“Woman, Soldier, Girl”, Priya Chand, 2023 (5900 words)

Novelettes

“The Anarchivist”, Owen Leddy, 2025 (9500 words)
“avenging the sorrow”, Lam Ning, 2022 (15700 words)
“The Better Ends”, V. Zixin, 2025 (15600 words)
“Cupernicity”, B. Morris Allen, 2025 (16000 words)
“A Door of My Own”, Tim Pratt, 2022 (8800 words)
“The Ensanguined Shore”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2024 (9700 words)
“Limue’s Alphabet”, Eleanor Glewwe, 2025 (10000 words)
“Matryoshka City”, Albert Chu, 2024 (8600 words)
“The Pool Noodle Alien Posse”, M.L. Clark, 2023 (8200 words)
“Prata Neptunia”, S.J. Ladds, 2026 (16700 words)
“The Transformative Three and the Clean Cooking Revolution (grant no. 437-775)”, Auke Pols, 2024 (8900 words)
“Wishes Slick Like Eels”, Irene Liang, 2025 (10300 words)

B. Morris Allen

“Cupernicity”, B. Morris Allen, 2025 (16000 words)

Faith Allington

“Deep Sea Baby”, Faith Allington, 2024 (2100 words)

Sylvie Althoff

“The Visitor”, Sylvie Althoff, 2026 (5000 words)

Rowley Amato

“The Sons of Victor Levitak”, Rowley Amato, 2025 (6400 words)

Christine Amsden

“Believe Me”, Christine Amsden, 2026 (990 words)

Colleen Anderson

“The Fungal Force: A History”, Colleen Anderson, 2023 (55 lines)
“In Our Nature”, Colleen Anderson, 2026 (27 lines)

Lae Astra

“Sunrise over Neo-Tokyo”, Lae Astra, 2024 (26 lines)

Davian Aw

“Between the Shadow and the Soul”, Davian Aw, 2023 (6000 words)
“ship of living ghosts”, Davian Aw, 2026 (36 lines)

Devan Barlow

“A Moon Witch Seeks a Shell”, Devan Barlow, 2024 (25 lines)

M. Bennardo

“A Prayer to St Jude”, M. Bennardo, 2022 (5800 words)

Carina Bissett

“Between Scylla and Charybdis”, Carina Bissett, 2023 (53 lines)

Laura Blackwell

“A Witch, a Wakening”, Laura Blackwell, 2024 (2200 words)

Storm Blakley

“Salt and Smoke”, Storm Blakley, 2022 (3200 words)

Naomi Simone Borwein

“The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight”, Naomi Simone Borwein, 2025 (115 lines)

Alexandra Brandt

“The Shape of Her Shadow”, Alexandra Brandt, 2024 (6000 words)

Emma Burnett

“Escape Choice”, Emma Burnett, 2024 (2800 words)

Beth Cato

“How Magic Will Help You Take the Bastards Down”, Beth Cato, 2023 (45 lines)

Priya Chand

“Woman, Soldier, Girl”, Priya Chand, 2023 (5900 words)

Joyce Chng

“Treacle Blood”, Joyce Chng, 2022 (1500 words)
“Solarpunk Letters: Seeds of Change”, Joyce Chng, 2023 (290 words)

Jess Cho

“The Ships That Sang”, Jess Cho, 2024 (34 lines)

Albert Chu

“Matryoshka City”, Albert Chu, 2024 (8600 words)

M.L. Clark

“The Pool Noodle Alien Posse”, M.L. Clark, 2023 (8200 words)

Katie Conrad

“The Protector of the Forest”, Katie Conrad, 2026 (7300 words)

Amanda Cook

“Guidelines for Living Your Fairy Tale (in no Particular Order)”, Amanda Cook, 2024 (46 lines)

Marc A. Criley

“Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain”, Marc A. Criley, 2024 (830 words)
“A Multitude of Sparks Descend”, Marc A. Criley, 2026 (700 words)

Sarah Day

“The Heart of the Party”, Sarah Day, 2022 (5800 words)

Abigail Dereje

“Salt as a Second Language”, Abigail Dereje, 2026 (29 lines)

Jennifer R. Donohue

“Purity”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2023 (3100 words)
“The Ensanguined Shore”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2024 (9700 words)
“Dare Seize the Fire”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2025 (6000 words)

David Birch Ellis

“Solitary”, David Birch Ellis, 2023 (22 lines)

Monica Joyce Evans

“Huddle”, Monica Joyce Evans, 2023 (720 words)

Lauren Ferebee

“Sentinel”, Lauren Ferebee, 2025 (3700 words)

Vanessa Fogg

“Microseasons of the Dead”, Vanessa Fogg, 2023 (1500 words)
“That Small, Hard Thing on the Back of Your Neck”, Vanessa Fogg, 2024 (3300 words)

Francesca Forrest

“New Day Dawning”, Francesca Forrest, 2022 (6000 words)

M. Frost

“The Cassandra Effect”, M. Frost, 2025 (22 lines)

J.L. George

“Bright Bleeding Girls”, J.L. George, 2025 (5400 words)

Jaime Gill

“Minotaur”, Jaime Gill, 2025 (5500 words)

Eleanor Glewwe

“Limue’s Alphabet”, Eleanor Glewwe, 2025 (10000 words)

Samuel Lowd Goldstein

“Interstellar Wallflower”, Samuel Lowd Goldstein, 2023 (35 lines)

Laura Gregory

“Nightingale’s Lament”, Laura Gregory, 2022 (2000 words)

Adriana C. Grigore

“Seams of Iron”, Adriana C. Grigore, 2022 (6400 words)

Deborah Harford

“Raised”, Deborah Harford, 2025 (22 lines)

Jordan Hirsch

“We Don't Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End”, Jordan Hirsch, 2022 (43 lines)

L.F. Howard

“We Will See”, L.F. Howard, 2026 (4900 words)

Jennifer Hudak

“Spindle House”, Jennifer Hudak, 2022 (3000 words)

Louise Hughes

“Unspoilt”, Louise Hughes, 2022 (4300 words)
“Born of the Mountain's Chill”, Louise Hughes, 2025 (2800 words)

L.A. Hyland

“Why Would I Be a Woman”, L.A. Hyland, 2026 (11 lines)

Amalie N. Ingham

“Deirdre’s Skin”, Amalie N. Ingham, 2024 (3300 words)

Shelly Jones

“A Sea Change”, Shelly Jones, 2022 (1000 words)
“In the Field”, Shelly Jones, 2024 (2600 words)

Zoe Kaplan

“The End of Rain”, Zoe Kaplan, 2024 (720 words)

Juliet Kemp

“Just as You Are”, Juliet Kemp, 2023 (5000 words)
“Treading Invisible Threads”, Juliet Kemp, 2025 (4700 words)

Simon Kewin

“His New Body”, Simon Kewin, 2023 (3000 words)

Annika Barranti Klein

“AITA for throwing away my wife’s haunted dolls?”, Annika Barranti Klein, 2022 (890 words)

Crystal Koo

“Titanium Chef”, Crystal Koo, 2026 (3800 words)

Katie Kopajtic

“Terranueva”, Katie Kopajtic, 2024 (2800 words)

Elena S. Kotsile

“How to Plant an Olive Tree on the Moon When All Is Lost”, Elena S. Kotsile, 2023 (14 lines)

Nancy S. Koven

“Seven Stories for Now and Later”, Nancy S. Koven, 2025 (3000 words)

Frances Koziar

“One Day”, Frances Koziar, 2023 (1700 words)

Petra Kuppers

“Bone Planet”, Petra Kuppers, 2024 (14 lines)

L.J. Lacey

“Space Gardens”, L.J. Lacey, 2024 (2000 words)

S.J. Ladds

“Prata Neptunia”, S.J. Ladds, 2026 (16700 words)

Nicole J. LeBoeuf

“Reasonable Accommodations”, Nicole J. LeBoeuf, 2022 (14 lines)

Owen Leddy

“The Anarchivist”, Owen Leddy, 2025 (9500 words)

Mary Soon Lee

“What Heroines Read”, Mary Soon Lee, 2024 (16 lines)

Danielle Levsky

“Dissolution”, Danielle Levsky, 2025 (66 lines)

Irene Liang

“Wishes Slick Like Eels”, Irene Liang, 2025 (10300 words)

Goran Lowie

“All I Ever Wanted to Be”, Goran Lowie, 2023 (28 lines)

Nicole Lungerhausen

“Song of Your Life”, Nicole Lungerhausen, 2022 (3100 words)

Toby MacNutt

“Live off the Land”, Toby MacNutt, 2023 (1800 words)

Avra Margariti

“Side Effects May Vary”, Avra Margariti, 2023 (3300 words)
“Homunculi of Creation”, Avra Margariti, 2024 (38 lines)

Elizabeth R. McClellan

“The Later Life of Herr Samsa’s Picture”, Elizabeth R. McClellan, 2023 (68 lines)

Lyra Meurer

“Fruiting Bodies”, Lyra Meurer, 2026 (3100 words)

Devin Miller

“Smells of Brine, Witching”, Devin Miller, 2023 (24 lines)
“Safe in a Malachite Storm”, Devin Miller, 2025 (1700 words)

Lam Ning

“avenging the sorrow”, Lam Ning, 2022 (15700 words)

Jonathan Olfert

“The Thousand Tongues of Sara”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1700 words)
“Collective Bargaining”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1000 words)
“Whiskey Mud”, Jonathan Olfert, 2024 (2200 words)

Ioanna Papadopoulou

“We Were Ghostless Against Her”, Ioanna Papadopoulou, 2022 (4600 words)

Marisca Pichette

“charybdis”, Marisca Pichette, 2022 (38 lines)

Auke Pols

“The Transformative Three and the Clean Cooking Revolution (grant no. 437-775)”, Auke Pols, 2024 (8900 words)

Tim Pratt

“A Door of My Own”, Tim Pratt, 2022 (8800 words)

R.M. Pérez-Padilla

“Transmogrification”, R.M. Pérez-Padilla, 2024 (6000 words)

Ujjvala Bagal Rahn

“Going Under”, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, 2023 (13 lines)

S. Brackett Robertson

“Bridge”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2022 (6000 words)
“Mageochory”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2023 (19 lines)

Sean R. Robinson

“Boxes Full of Memories”, Sean R. Robinson, 2023 (2800 words)

Rachel Rodman

“Two Hybrids”, Rachel Rodman, 2024 (179 lines)

Bernie Jean Schiebeling

“Crumb Cutie Exodus”, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, 2023 (4500 words)

Ziggy Schutz

“Featured Exhibit: Drop in a Bucket”, Ziggy Schutz, 2025 (2000 words)

Kaya Skovdatter

“The Weight of Winter”, Kaya Skovdatter, 2026 (38 lines)

Mahaila Smith

“Manipulating the Light”, Mahaila Smith, 2024 (42 lines)

Susan Taitel

“The Rose Sisterhood”, Susan Taitel, 2024 (2000 words)

Justin Taroli

“Unblooded Gospel”, Justin Taroli, 2025 (5900 words)

Lisa Timpf

“Mycelial”, Lisa Timpf, 2023 (36 lines)

Veda Villiers

“Unformed”, Veda Villiers, 2025 (81 lines)

Ana Wesley

“Turnabout”, Ana Wesley, 2025 (6100 words)

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

“Break Free This Ground”, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, 2026 (1100 words)

Timothy Yeo

“The Fox and the Snake”, Timothy Yeo, 2022 (5000 words)

Eris Young

“All That Water”, Eris Young, 2025 (3200 words)

Rae Zalopany

“The Trident-Tailed Water Monster”, Rae Zalopany, 2026 (4700 words)

A. Zaykova

“Pirouettes in Weightlessness”, A. Zaykova, 2023 (400 words)

Anna Ziegelhof

“Out of Bounds”, Anna Ziegelhof, 2023 (3900 words)

V. Zixin

“The Better Ends”, V. Zixin, 2025 (15600 words)

2026

“Believe Me”, Christine Amsden, 2026 (990 words)
“In Our Nature”, Colleen Anderson, 2026 (27 lines)
“The Protector of the Forest”, Katie Conrad, 2026 (7300 words)
“Salt as a Second Language”, Abigail Dereje, 2026 (29 lines)
“Why Would I Be a Woman”, L.A. Hyland, 2026 (11 lines)
“Titanium Chef”, Crystal Koo, 2026 (3800 words)
“Break Free This Ground”, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, 2026 (1100 words)
“The Trident-Tailed Water Monster”, Rae Zalopany, 2026 (4700 words)
“The Visitor”, Sylvie Althoff, 2026 (5000 words)
“ship of living ghosts”, Davian Aw, 2026 (36 lines)
“A Multitude of Sparks Descend”, Marc A. Criley, 2026 (700 words)
“We Will See”, L.F. Howard, 2026 (4900 words)
“Prata Neptunia”, S.J. Ladds, 2026 (16700 words)
“Fruiting Bodies”, Lyra Meurer, 2026 (3100 words)
“The Weight of Winter”, Kaya Skovdatter, 2026 (38 lines)

2025

“The Sons of Victor Levitak”, Rowley Amato, 2025 (6400 words)
“The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight”, Naomi Simone Borwein, 2025 (115 lines)
“Sentinel”, Lauren Ferebee, 2025 (3700 words)
“Limue’s Alphabet”, Eleanor Glewwe, 2025 (10000 words)
“Seven Stories for Now and Later”, Nancy S. Koven, 2025 (3000 words)
“Unblooded Gospel”, Justin Taroli, 2025 (5900 words)
“The Better Ends”, V. Zixin, 2025 (15600 words)
“Dare Seize the Fire”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2025 (6000 words)
“The Cassandra Effect”, M. Frost, 2025 (22 lines)
“Bright Bleeding Girls”, J.L. George, 2025 (5400 words)
“Born of the Mountain's Chill”, Louise Hughes, 2025 (2800 words)
“Treading Invisible Threads”, Juliet Kemp, 2025 (4700 words)
“The Anarchivist”, Owen Leddy, 2025 (9500 words)
“Dissolution”, Danielle Levsky, 2025 (66 lines)
“Wishes Slick Like Eels”, Irene Liang, 2025 (10300 words)
“Cupernicity”, B. Morris Allen, 2025 (16000 words)
“Minotaur”, Jaime Gill, 2025 (5500 words)
“Raised”, Deborah Harford, 2025 (22 lines)
“Safe in a Malachite Storm”, Devin Miller, 2025 (1700 words)
“Featured Exhibit: Drop in a Bucket”, Ziggy Schutz, 2025 (2000 words)
“Unformed”, Veda Villiers, 2025 (81 lines)
“Turnabout”, Ana Wesley, 2025 (6100 words)
“All That Water”, Eris Young, 2025 (3200 words)

2024

“Deep Sea Baby”, Faith Allington, 2024 (2100 words)
“A Moon Witch Seeks a Shell”, Devan Barlow, 2024 (25 lines)
“That Small, Hard Thing on the Back of Your Neck”, Vanessa Fogg, 2024 (3300 words)
“Deirdre’s Skin”, Amalie N. Ingham, 2024 (3300 words)
“In the Field”, Shelly Jones, 2024 (2600 words)
“Whiskey Mud”, Jonathan Olfert, 2024 (2200 words)
“Two Hybrids”, Rachel Rodman, 2024 (179 lines)
“The Shape of Her Shadow”, Alexandra Brandt, 2024 (6000 words)
“The Ships That Sang”, Jess Cho, 2024 (34 lines)
“Matryoshka City”, Albert Chu, 2024 (8600 words)
“The End of Rain”, Zoe Kaplan, 2024 (720 words)
“What Heroines Read”, Mary Soon Lee, 2024 (16 lines)
“The Transformative Three and the Clean Cooking Revolution (grant no. 437-775)”, Auke Pols, 2024 (8900 words)
“Transmogrification”, R.M. Pérez-Padilla, 2024 (6000 words)
“Sunrise over Neo-Tokyo”, Lae Astra, 2024 (26 lines)
“Guidelines for Living Your Fairy Tale (in no Particular Order)”, Amanda Cook, 2024 (46 lines)
“Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain”, Marc A. Criley, 2024 (830 words)
“Terranueva”, Katie Kopajtic, 2024 (2800 words)
“Space Gardens”, L.J. Lacey, 2024 (2000 words)
“Manipulating the Light”, Mahaila Smith, 2024 (42 lines)
“A Witch, a Wakening”, Laura Blackwell, 2024 (2200 words)
“Escape Choice”, Emma Burnett, 2024 (2800 words)
“The Ensanguined Shore”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2024 (9700 words)
“Bone Planet”, Petra Kuppers, 2024 (14 lines)
“Homunculi of Creation”, Avra Margariti, 2024 (38 lines)
“The Rose Sisterhood”, Susan Taitel, 2024 (2000 words)

2023

“How Magic Will Help You Take the Bastards Down”, Beth Cato, 2023 (45 lines)
“Woman, Soldier, Girl”, Priya Chand, 2023 (5900 words)
“Microseasons of the Dead”, Vanessa Fogg, 2023 (1500 words)
“Just as You Are”, Juliet Kemp, 2023 (5000 words)
“How to Plant an Olive Tree on the Moon When All Is Lost”, Elena S. Kotsile, 2023 (14 lines)
“Collective Bargaining”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1000 words)
“Crumb Cutie Exodus”, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, 2023 (4500 words)
“The Fungal Force: A History”, Colleen Anderson, 2023 (55 lines)
“Between the Shadow and the Soul”, Davian Aw, 2023 (6000 words)
“One Day”, Frances Koziar, 2023 (1700 words)
“Smells of Brine, Witching”, Devin Miller, 2023 (24 lines)
“Boxes Full of Memories”, Sean R. Robinson, 2023 (2800 words)
“Mycelial”, Lisa Timpf, 2023 (36 lines)
“Out of Bounds”, Anna Ziegelhof, 2023 (3900 words)
“Between Scylla and Charybdis”, Carina Bissett, 2023 (53 lines)
“Solarpunk Letters: Seeds of Change”, Joyce Chng, 2023 (290 words)
“The Pool Noodle Alien Posse”, M.L. Clark, 2023 (8200 words)
“Huddle”, Monica Joyce Evans, 2023 (720 words)
“Interstellar Wallflower”, Samuel Lowd Goldstein, 2023 (35 lines)
“All I Ever Wanted to Be”, Goran Lowie, 2023 (28 lines)
“Live off the Land”, Toby MacNutt, 2023 (1800 words)
“Pirouettes in Weightlessness”, A. Zaykova, 2023 (400 words)
“Purity”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2023 (3100 words)
“Solitary”, David Birch Ellis, 2023 (22 lines)
“His New Body”, Simon Kewin, 2023 (3000 words)
“Side Effects May Vary”, Avra Margariti, 2023 (3300 words)
“The Later Life of Herr Samsa’s Picture”, Elizabeth R. McClellan, 2023 (68 lines)
“The Thousand Tongues of Sara”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1700 words)
“Going Under”, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, 2023 (13 lines)
“Mageochory”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2023 (19 lines)

2022

“Treacle Blood”, Joyce Chng, 2022 (1500 words)
“Seams of Iron”, Adriana C. Grigore, 2022 (6400 words)
“Spindle House”, Jennifer Hudak, 2022 (3000 words)
“A Sea Change”, Shelly Jones, 2022 (1000 words)
“AITA for throwing away my wife’s haunted dolls?”, Annika Barranti Klein, 2022 (890 words)
“charybdis”, Marisca Pichette, 2022 (38 lines)
“Bridge”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2022 (6000 words)
“The Heart of the Party”, Sarah Day, 2022 (5800 words)
“New Day Dawning”, Francesca Forrest, 2022 (6000 words)
“We Don't Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End”, Jordan Hirsch, 2022 (43 lines)
“Unspoilt”, Louise Hughes, 2022 (4300 words)
“Reasonable Accommodations”, Nicole J. LeBoeuf, 2022 (14 lines)
“Song of Your Life”, Nicole Lungerhausen, 2022 (3100 words)
“We Were Ghostless Against Her”, Ioanna Papadopoulou, 2022 (4600 words)
“A Door of My Own”, Tim Pratt, 2022 (8800 words)
“A Prayer to St Jude”, M. Bennardo, 2022 (5800 words)
“Salt and Smoke”, Storm Blakley, 2022 (3200 words)
“Nightingale’s Lament”, Laura Gregory, 2022 (2000 words)
“avenging the sorrow”, Lam Ning, 2022 (15700 words)
“The Fox and the Snake”, Timothy Yeo, 2022 (5000 words)

Poems

“Why Would I Be a Woman”, L.A. Hyland, 2026 (11 lines)
“Going Under”, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, 2023 (13 lines)
“Reasonable Accommodations”, Nicole J. LeBoeuf, 2022 (14 lines)
“How to Plant an Olive Tree on the Moon When All Is Lost”, Elena S. Kotsile, 2023 (14 lines)
“Bone Planet”, Petra Kuppers, 2024 (14 lines)
“What Heroines Read”, Mary Soon Lee, 2024 (16 lines)
“Mageochory”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2023 (19 lines)
“Solitary”, David Birch Ellis, 2023 (22 lines)
“Raised”, Deborah Harford, 2025 (22 lines)
“The Cassandra Effect”, M. Frost, 2025 (22 lines)
“Smells of Brine, Witching”, Devin Miller, 2023 (24 lines)
“A Moon Witch Seeks a Shell”, Devan Barlow, 2024 (25 lines)
“Sunrise over Neo-Tokyo”, Lae Astra, 2024 (26 lines)
“In Our Nature”, Colleen Anderson, 2026 (27 lines)
“All I Ever Wanted to Be”, Goran Lowie, 2023 (28 lines)
“Salt as a Second Language”, Abigail Dereje, 2026 (29 lines)
“The Ships That Sang”, Jess Cho, 2024 (34 lines)
“Interstellar Wallflower”, Samuel Lowd Goldstein, 2023 (35 lines)
“Mycelial”, Lisa Timpf, 2023 (36 lines)
“ship of living ghosts”, Davian Aw, 2026 (36 lines)
“charybdis”, Marisca Pichette, 2022 (38 lines)
“Homunculi of Creation”, Avra Margariti, 2024 (38 lines)
“The Weight of Winter”, Kaya Skovdatter, 2026 (38 lines)
“Manipulating the Light”, Mahaila Smith, 2024 (42 lines)
“We Don't Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End”, Jordan Hirsch, 2022 (43 lines)
“How Magic Will Help You Take the Bastards Down”, Beth Cato, 2023 (45 lines)
“Guidelines for Living Your Fairy Tale (in no Particular Order)”, Amanda Cook, 2024 (46 lines)
“Between Scylla and Charybdis”, Carina Bissett, 2023 (53 lines)
“The Fungal Force: A History”, Colleen Anderson, 2023 (55 lines)
“Dissolution”, Danielle Levsky, 2025 (66 lines)
“The Later Life of Herr Samsa’s Picture”, Elizabeth R. McClellan, 2023 (68 lines)
“Unformed”, Veda Villiers, 2025 (81 lines)
“The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight”, Naomi Simone Borwein, 2025 (115 lines)
“Two Hybrids”, Rachel Rodman, 2024 (179 lines)

Flash fiction

“Solarpunk Letters: Seeds of Change”, Joyce Chng, 2023 (290 words)
“Pirouettes in Weightlessness”, A. Zaykova, 2023 (400 words)
“A Multitude of Sparks Descend”, Marc A. Criley, 2026 (700 words)
“Huddle”, Monica Joyce Evans, 2023 (720 words)
“The End of Rain”, Zoe Kaplan, 2024 (720 words)
“Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain”, Marc A. Criley, 2024 (830 words)
“AITA for throwing away my wife’s haunted dolls?”, Annika Barranti Klein, 2022 (890 words)
“Believe Me”, Christine Amsden, 2026 (990 words)
“A Sea Change”, Shelly Jones, 2022 (1000 words)
“Collective Bargaining”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1000 words)

Short stories

“Break Free This Ground”, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, 2026 (1100 words)
“Treacle Blood”, Joyce Chng, 2022 (1500 words)
“Microseasons of the Dead”, Vanessa Fogg, 2023 (1500 words)
“The Thousand Tongues of Sara”, Jonathan Olfert, 2023 (1700 words)
“One Day”, Frances Koziar, 2023 (1700 words)
“Safe in a Malachite Storm”, Devin Miller, 2025 (1700 words)
“Live off the Land”, Toby MacNutt, 2023 (1800 words)
“Nightingale’s Lament”, Laura Gregory, 2022 (2000 words)
“The Rose Sisterhood”, Susan Taitel, 2024 (2000 words)
“Space Gardens”, L.J. Lacey, 2024 (2000 words)
“Featured Exhibit: Drop in a Bucket”, Ziggy Schutz, 2025 (2000 words)
“Deep Sea Baby”, Faith Allington, 2024 (2100 words)
“A Witch, a Wakening”, Laura Blackwell, 2024 (2200 words)
“Whiskey Mud”, Jonathan Olfert, 2024 (2200 words)
“In the Field”, Shelly Jones, 2024 (2600 words)
“Boxes Full of Memories”, Sean R. Robinson, 2023 (2800 words)
“Escape Choice”, Emma Burnett, 2024 (2800 words)
“Terranueva”, Katie Kopajtic, 2024 (2800 words)
“Born of the Mountain's Chill”, Louise Hughes, 2025 (2800 words)
“Spindle House”, Jennifer Hudak, 2022 (3000 words)
“His New Body”, Simon Kewin, 2023 (3000 words)
“Seven Stories for Now and Later”, Nancy S. Koven, 2025 (3000 words)
“Song of Your Life”, Nicole Lungerhausen, 2022 (3100 words)
“Purity”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2023 (3100 words)
“Fruiting Bodies”, Lyra Meurer, 2026 (3100 words)
“Salt and Smoke”, Storm Blakley, 2022 (3200 words)
“All That Water”, Eris Young, 2025 (3200 words)
“Side Effects May Vary”, Avra Margariti, 2023 (3300 words)
“That Small, Hard Thing on the Back of Your Neck”, Vanessa Fogg, 2024 (3300 words)
“Deirdre’s Skin”, Amalie N. Ingham, 2024 (3300 words)
“Sentinel”, Lauren Ferebee, 2025 (3700 words)
“Titanium Chef”, Crystal Koo, 2026 (3800 words)
“Out of Bounds”, Anna Ziegelhof, 2023 (3900 words)
“Unspoilt”, Louise Hughes, 2022 (4300 words)
“Crumb Cutie Exodus”, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, 2023 (4500 words)
“We Were Ghostless Against Her”, Ioanna Papadopoulou, 2022 (4600 words)
“Treading Invisible Threads”, Juliet Kemp, 2025 (4700 words)
“The Trident-Tailed Water Monster”, Rae Zalopany, 2026 (4700 words)
“We Will See”, L.F. Howard, 2026 (4900 words)
“The Fox and the Snake”, Timothy Yeo, 2022 (5000 words)
“Just as You Are”, Juliet Kemp, 2023 (5000 words)
“The Visitor”, Sylvie Althoff, 2026 (5000 words)
“Bright Bleeding Girls”, J.L. George, 2025 (5400 words)
“Minotaur”, Jaime Gill, 2025 (5500 words)
“A Prayer to St Jude”, M. Bennardo, 2022 (5800 words)
“The Heart of the Party”, Sarah Day, 2022 (5800 words)
“Woman, Soldier, Girl”, Priya Chand, 2023 (5900 words)
“Unblooded Gospel”, Justin Taroli, 2025 (5900 words)
“New Day Dawning”, Francesca Forrest, 2022 (6000 words)
“Bridge”, S. Brackett Robertson, 2022 (6000 words)
“Between the Shadow and the Soul”, Davian Aw, 2023 (6000 words)
“Transmogrification”, R.M. Pérez-Padilla, 2024 (6000 words)
“The Shape of Her Shadow”, Alexandra Brandt, 2024 (6000 words)
“Dare Seize the Fire”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2025 (6000 words)
“Turnabout”, Ana Wesley, 2025 (6100 words)
“Seams of Iron”, Adriana C. Grigore, 2022 (6400 words)
“The Sons of Victor Levitak”, Rowley Amato, 2025 (6400 words)
“The Protector of the Forest”, Katie Conrad, 2026 (7300 words)

Novelettes

“The Pool Noodle Alien Posse”, M.L. Clark, 2023 (8200 words)
“Matryoshka City”, Albert Chu, 2024 (8600 words)
“A Door of My Own”, Tim Pratt, 2022 (8800 words)
“The Transformative Three and the Clean Cooking Revolution (grant no. 437-775)”, Auke Pols, 2024 (8900 words)
“The Anarchivist”, Owen Leddy, 2025 (9500 words)
“The Ensanguined Shore”, Jennifer R. Donohue, 2024 (9700 words)
“Limue’s Alphabet”, Eleanor Glewwe, 2025 (10000 words)
“Wishes Slick Like Eels”, Irene Liang, 2025 (10300 words)
“The Better Ends”, V. Zixin, 2025 (15600 words)
“avenging the sorrow”, Lam Ning, 2022 (15700 words)
“Cupernicity”, B. Morris Allen, 2025 (16000 words)
“Prata Neptunia”, S.J. Ladds, 2026 (16700 words)

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