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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2025
This month, we're celebrating quick, bite-sized stories.
Never Trust a Beautiful Damsel in the Woods: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Christabel”
A beautiful stranger who can act terrified one moment and exert dark charisma the next...
Remarkable Rodents: Five SFF Stories Featuring Rats and Mice
Talking rats and superintelligent mice aren't just for children's books...
Revealing Blood and Breath by Qurratulayn
A girl makes a deal with a devil in order to bring vengeance down upon the magical ruling class....
Read an Excerpt From Cruel Is the Light by Sophie Clark
It is said that love conquers all. But will it tear them apart?
Luminous by Silvia Park: Mysteries, Families, and Robot Theology
Silvia Park finds a fresh way to examine questions SF writers have probed for decades in this ne...
Reading The Wheel of Time: A Collar, a Village and a Tower in Knife of Dreams (Part 10)
This week in Reading The Wheel of Time, Mat tries to understand Tuon, Tuon employs some a’dam, a...
Five Books Featuring World-Changing Visionaries
Characters hell-bent on reshaping the world, for better or worse...
Read Anji Kills A King by Evan Leikam: Prologue and Chapters 1-2
An unlikely assassin struggles to escape a legendary bounty hunter...
Joyfully Revisiting Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
An unabashed love letter to a modern fantasy classic.
Read The Devils by Joe Abercrombie: Chapters 4-6
With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side...
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A young woman is recruited to be part of Nigeria's first ever space mission, but things go awry...
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets...
After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens
Two ex-military nurses, one human and one alien, share a friendship in a city following an alien...
The Shape of Stones
As a young scholar sets out on a research project to find the stones where the settlers of Icela...
Landline
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers t...
The Witch and the Wyrm
A new story set in the world of “The Red Mother.” Hacksilver riddled with a dragon, saved his fa...
Agate Way
A pair of sisters are hired to find--and if necessary, dispose of--whatever is killing neighborh...
Red Leaves
The spirit of a recently deceased young boy helps a group of ghosts seek revenge on a corrupt an...
