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  "description": "Welcome to the March installment of Table of Contents, a roundup of the latest short fiction hitting the web for the science fiction and fantasy world.\n\nYou can check out last month's installment here – it's been newly updated with the stories that came out over the course of February 2026. I've also added a couple of publications to the longer list. You can check out prior installments of this column here.\n\nHere are the short stories coming out this month:\n\n\nAdventitious (February / March 2026)",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-03T14:00:04.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.andrewliptak.com",
  "tags": [
    "here",
    "Adventitious",
    "What Any Dead Thing Wants",
    "The Soundtrack of My Afterlife",
    "Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture on Death Ages Novels, University of Presque Isle, March 32, 2667.",
    "This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix",
    "A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden",
    "What A Name Does Is Let You Leave",
    "Hunter Mother Sailor Wife",
    "Teapot",
    "The Furthest Point",
    "To Devour Your Own Name",
    "A Place to Grow",
    "This won’t exist yesterday",
    "Amazing Stories",
    "Freshly Minted",
    "Shells",
    "The Tyrant in Retrograde",
    "The Factory",
    "Dreaming of Home",
    "Apex Magazine",
    "\"Musings from Maryland\"",
    "Analog Science Fact and Fiction",
    "Asimov's Science Fiction",
    "Aurealis",
    "A New Game",
    "Anna, in the Abstract",
    "The Book of Middles",
    "The Quirky Life of Hugo Gernsback",
    "An Interview with Stephen Higgins, Creator of ‘Valis’, a Musical Album Inspired by the Words of Philip K Dick",
    "Hacking the Flesh: the Future of the Human Form",
    "Editorial: From the Cloud",
    "Beneath Ceaseless Skies",
    "Mother’s Hearth",
    "The Sea Child",
    "Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. I",
    "Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. II",
    "The Book Collectors",
    "Clarkesworld Magazine",
    "Bend Like the Palm",
    "First Human Ghost on Mars",
    "Crosstalk, Elysium",
    "Scion",
    "Scion: Afterword",
    "Those Who Left History",
    "You Are Invited to Our SPRING CELEBRATION",
    "Person, Place, Thing",
    "The Hands and the Brain: Complementary Dominance",
    "Anatomy of a Novel: A Conversation with J.M. Sidorova",
    "Fluidity, Desire, and Survival: A Conversation with Rebecca Roanhorse",
    "Editor's Desk: The Best from 2025",
    "The Dark",
    "The Ugly House",
    "Nameless",
    "The Empty Vessel",
    "R is for Remains",
    "Dark Horses Magazine",
    "The Deadlands",
    "You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse",
    "The Breeze & The Black Door",
    "Flash Fiction Online",
    "Diabolical Plots",
    "Jefferson Dines Alone",
    "Well Tester",
    "Float. Sink. Tread. Swim",
    "The Piano Made of Fingers",
    "Moss Senses",
    "The Sacrificials",
    "Transformations: 150 Issues & Counting!",
    "Fusion Fragment",
    "Future Tense Fiction",
    "The Pocket Box™",
    "What Happens When a Groundbreaking Invention Falls Victim to Human Impulse?",
    "GigaNotoSaurus",
    "About Face",
    "Kaleidotrope",
    "“Once Upon an Invasion”",
    "“Outbreak",
    "“Out to Sea”",
    "“Ponyhenge”",
    "“The Tipping Point”",
    "“Diamonds”",
    "“Astral Source”",
    "“A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial”",
    "“Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far”",
    "“A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped",
    "“Wolftongue”",
    "“Rara Avis”",
    "“Awakening”",
    "“Even in Our Sleep”",
    "“Bridge and Tunnel”",
    "khōréō",
    "This Kingdom, Your Ficus; Its Belly, Your Fig",
    "In My Time of Dreaming",
    "by Megan Chee",
    "The Tale of Afonso",
    "Letters from Light’s End",
    "Banquet for All!",
    "Letters from the Editors",
    "Interzone",
    "Lightspeed Magazine",
    "Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial’s Guide to #GirlDinner",
    "The Devourers of War; or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods",
    "Espie Droger Dreams of War",
    "The Tide Folk",
    "An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War",
    "Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea",
    "Terms of Enlightenment",
    "When We Loved Giants",
    "Editorial: March 2026",
    "Author Spotlight: Matthew Kressel",
    "Book Review: Midnight Somewhere by Johnny Compton",
    "Author Spotlight: Vanessa Fogg",
    "Book Review: The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers by Kenneth Hunter Gordon",
    "Author Spotlight: Patrick Hurley",
    "Author Spotlight: Sara S. Messenger",
    "Book Review: The Franchise by Thomas Elrod",
    "Luna Station Quarterly",
    "Nature Futures",
    "Sock. Something. Um",
    "Evolution",
    "First bot, singular",
    "All the world is staged",
    "Nightmare Magazine",
    "Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights",
    "The Doll Problem",
    "Her Dark Places",
    "Zooming Past Shotgun Houses",
    "Author Spotlight: Gordon B. White",
    "The H Word: Laughing to Swallow My Screams",
    "Author Spotlight: Adam-Troy Castro",
    "Media Reviews: March 2026",
    "Otherside",
    "This Is Not Your Extinction Event",
    "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet",
    "Vitrification",
    "The Claywife",
    "Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur",
    "Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain",
    "Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive",
    "Situationship",
    "The Homeowner’s Bride",
    "blessing for molly grue.",
    "Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen",
    "Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be",
    "Eat It Out",
    "Electrolysis",
    "He Is Survived by His Wife",
    "Reactor",
    "Blade Through the Heart",
    "Cutting Corners",
    "Tatterdemalion",
    "Small Wonders Magazine",
    "The Seven Virtues of Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon",
    "Nothing Bright but the Shine of Your Coat",
    "Foxes on Her Wrist, Fire on Her Ankle",
    "Just Before the Mission Gulch Fire",
    "The Dragon and It",
    "Gemini creatures",
    "I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope",
    "They Live So Little and They Die So Fast",
    "tell us about doubt",
    "Strange Horizons",
    "Bitter as the Sea",
    "This Obituary Has Been Retracted",
    "Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems",
    "Afterstory",
    "You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator)",
    "An Inheritance of Air; or, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend My Presentation on Genealogy",
    "Narcissus Meets the Ghost of AI in a Dark Alley Behind a Fusion Restaurant",
    "[minutes between city and forest #4]",
    "Pennsylvania Cryptid",
    "The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator",
    "Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity",
    "That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships In Cosy SFF",
    "The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina",
    "Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum",
    "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu",
    "ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction edited by Marissa van Uden",
    "This Brutal Moon by Bethany Jacobs",
    "The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty",
    "Crisis at Proxima by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson",
    "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix",
    "When Among Crows and To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth",
    "Beings by Ilana Masad",
    "The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui",
    "Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks",
    "The Sunday Morning Transport",
    "When Your Ex-Husband Lies Dying and Only You Can Get Him the Magic Elixir from the Bodega",
    "La Sirena’s Blessing of Belonging",
    "Self-Portrait, with Bones",
    "In Your Dreams",
    "Three-Lobed Burning Eye",
    "The Final Safest Place",
    "Our Darkness to Take",
    "Kindredhood in Medieval Tongues",
    "The Show is in the Basement",
    "Someday, The Rules Were (Mostly) Clear",
    "book club for bots",
    "Uncanny Magazine",
    "What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom",
    "Chimera",
    "When Things Went Bad",
    "The Mighty Impervious Woman Considers Retirement",
    "machining of little moons",
    "The Uncanny Valley",
    "Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times)",
    "Endings and Other Lies",
    "Interview: Anjali Sachdeva",
    "Weird Horror Magazine",
    "Moksha",
    "You Scream Ice Cream",
    "A View from the Window",
    "Horncrowns",
    "Last Night",
    "European Weird Vs. American Weird",
    "Suspicious Manors: Old Dark Houses and the New Gilded Age"
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Cornell\n  *  _\"_ Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture on Death Ages Novels, University of Presque Isle, March 32, 2667.\" by Stacie Turner\n  *  _\"_ This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix\" by Abigail Guerrero\n  * \"A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden\" by Melissa Ren\n  * \"What A Name Does Is Let You Leave\" by Meagan Kane\n  * \"Hunter Mother Sailor Wife\" by Catherine Tavares\n  * \"Teapot\" by Ben Williams\n  * \"The Furthest Point\" by Alethea Paul\n  * \"To Devour Your Own Name\" by Katlina Sommerberg\n  * \"A Place to Grow\" by Sarah Grace Tuttle\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * This won’t exist yesterday\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Amazing Stories (March 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Freshly Minted\" by Nick Hartland\n  * \"Shells\" by Alexander Zelenyj\n  * \"The Tyrant in Retrograde\" by Scott Morris\n  * \"The Factory\" by Lucy Egan\n  * \"Dreaming of Home\" by Josh Clark\n\n\n\n## Apex Magazine (Issue 152)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Ascension\" by P.L. McMillan — 3/3\n  * \"The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood\" by Angela Liu — 3/17\n  * \"Un Lamento de Flores\" by A.P. Thayer — 3/24\n  * \"Citizen Komarova Finds Love\" by Kat Sedia — 3/31\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * \"Musings from Maryland\" by Lesley Conner\n  * Interview with Author P.L. McMillan by Marissa van Uden — 3/5\n  * \"Not a Scab, but a Wound\" by Storm Humbert — 3/17\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Analog Science Fact and Fiction (March/April 2026,_Vol. XCVI No. 3 & 4_)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Consumer\" by Stephen Case\n  * \"And Wear A Golden Sorrow\" by Eric Del Carlo\n  * \"Rovers\" by Paul Carlson\n  * \"False Light\" by MB Valente\n  * \"Songbirds\" by H.A.B. Wilt\n  * \"Shade\" by David Whitmarsh\n  * \"Slingshot\" by David Gerrold\n  * \"Carbon\" by Jay Werkheiser\n  * \"The Pearl Divers Of Connell-b\" by Scott Steensma\n  * \"The Three Billion Base Pairs Of The Prophet\" by Gregor Hartmann\n  * \"Godspeed\" by C.R. Hodges\n  * \"Seeking Singularity\" by Joel Richards\n  * \"The Shiny New Folk\" by Steve Rasnic Tem\n  * \"Conscience\" by Tom R. Pike\n  * \"On The Origins Of The Species\" by Edd Vick\n  * \"No Place On Earth\" by Mary Soon Lee\n  * \"Sour Grapes\" by Holly Day\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Homes Away From Home, Michael Carroll\n  * Seeds Of Cities: Science Fiction Novums, M.c. Childs\n  * Patterns And Plausibilities, Howard V. Hendrix\n  * Guest Editorial: Artificial Stupidity, Stanley Schmidt\n  * In Times To Come\n  * The Alternate View, John G. Cramer\n  * Unknowns: Out Of Sequence, Alec Nevala-lee\n  * The Reference Library, Rosemary Claire Smith\n  * Brass Tacks\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Asimov's Science Fiction (March/April 2026, _Vol. 50 Nos. 3 & 4_)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Ghosts of Goldilocks\" by Kevin J. Anderson & Rick Wilber\n  * \"Satan’s Slave\" by R. Garcia y Robertson\n  * \"Quest for the Corpus Mundi\" by Preston Grassmann & Paul Di Filippo\n  * \"How to Live With Polar Bears\" by Octavia Cade\n  * \"A Fierce Need\" by James Van Pelt\n  * \"The Placemat at Baldy’s Diner\" by Michael Libling\n  * \"How Else\" by David Ebenbach\n  * \"The High Shrines\" by Stephen Case\n  * \"Antarctic Radio\" by Gu Shi (translated by Andy Dudak)\n  * \"Decoherence\" by Jennifer Crow\n  * \"Ice House\" by Anuel Rodriguez\n  * \"Spacesick\" by Grace Fitzgibbon\n  * \"AITA for Killing All the Humans?\" by Jenna Hanchey\n  * \"Time-Lost Stamps\" by Adele Gardner\n  * \"Sounds of Silence\" by Robert Frazier\n  * \"Zero-G Soliloquy\" by Connor Yeck\n  * \"Creation\" by Archie Abaire\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: Nothing Gold Can Stay by Sheila Williams\n  * Reflections: Round-Robin by Robert Silverberg\n  * On the Net: Impending Dooms by James Patrick Kelly\n  * On Books by Peter Heck\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Aurealis (Issue #188)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"A New Game\" by Matt Freeman\n  * \"Anna, in the Abstract\" by Andrew David\n  * \"The Book of Middles\" by EC Fuller\n  * \"The Quirky Life of Hugo Gernsback\" by Lynne Lumsden Green\n  * \"An Interview with Stephen Higgins, Creator of ‘Valis’, a Musical Album Inspired by the Words of Philip K Dick\" by Michael Pryor\n  * \"Hacking the Flesh: the Future of the Human Form\" by Stuart Olver\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: From the Cloud by Eugen Bacon\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Beneath Ceaseless Skies (March 2026, Issues #452 and #453)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Mother’s Hearth\" by W.A. Hamilton\n  * \"The Sea Child\" by Justin Wesley Ferguson\n  * \"Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. I by Jason Sanford\n  * \"Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. II\" by Jason Sanford\n  * \"The Book Collectors\" by J.W. Halicks\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Clarkesworld Magazine__(March 2026, Issue 234)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Bend Like the Palm\" by David D. Levine\n  * \"First Human Ghost on Mars\" by R.L. Meza\n  * \"Crosstalk, Elysium\" by Carolyn Zhao\n  * \"Scion\" by Thomas Ha\n  * \"Scion: Afterword\" by Thomas Ha\n  * \"Those Who Left History\" by Wanxiang Fengnian, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu\n  * \"You Are Invited to Our SPRING CELEBRATION\" by Thoraiya Dyer\n  * \"Person, Place, Thing\" by Marissa Lingen\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * The Hands and the Brain: Complementary Dominance by Benjamin C. Kinney\n  * Anatomy of a Novel: A Conversation with J.M. Sidorova by Arley Sorg\n  * Fluidity, Desire, and Survival: A Conversation with Rebecca Roanhorse by Arley Sorg\n  * Editor's Desk: The Best from 2025 by Neil Clarke\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Dark (March 2026, Issue 130)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Ugly House\" by __ Bianca Carvalho\n  * \"Nameless\" by __ Aliya Whiteley\n  * \"The Empty Vessel\" by __ Rhys Hughes\n  * \"R is for Remains\" by __ Steve Rasnic Tem\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Dark Horses Magazine (March 2026, No. 50)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Abednego Wept\" by Cy Hill\n  * \"Devour\" by Alyssa Wallinder\n  * \"The Tale Of The Three Sages (Metamorphosis)\" by John Randolph\n  * \"The Tokyo Tango\" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer\n  * \"A More Perfect Union\" by Edward Ahern\n  * \"Capture The Magic Press\" by G. W. Mcclary\n  * \"Evidence\" by Ty Cronkhite\n  * \"Encounter\" by Nick Young\n  * \"Night Visits\" by Matt Fox\n  * \"Grasshoppers\" by Theodora Sterling\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Deadlands (Winter 2026, Issue 41)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse\" by Sadoeuphemist (fiction; online 3/2)\n  * \"The Breeze & The Black Door\" by Mack W. Mani (poetry; online 3/5)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Flash Fiction Online (March 2026, Issue 150)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “The Sacrificials” by Andrew Kozma\n  * “Moss Senses” by Beth Goder\n  * “The Piano Made of Fingers” by Abigail Koury\n  * “Float. Sink. Tread. Swim.” by Shelly Jones\n  * “The Oil King” by Bree Wernicke\n  * “Moonmouse” by S.L. Harris, and\n  * “Second Film” by Chistopher St. Prince.\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Diabolical Plots (March 2026)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “Jefferson Dines Alone” by S.L. Harris\n  * “Well Tester” by E.M. Faulds\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Flash Fiction Online (March 2026)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Float. Sink. Tread. Swim\" by Shelly Jones\n  * \"The Piano Made of Fingers\" by Abigail Koury\n  * \"Moss Senses\" by Beth Goder\n  * \"The Sacrificials\" by Andrew Kozma\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * \"Transformations: 150 Issues & Counting!\" by Rebecca Halsey\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Fusion Fragment (March 2026, Issue 27)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “A Prescription for Suicide” by Anya Leigh Josephs\n  * “Digital Love Spell – 78% Effective!” by Katharine Tyndall\n  * “Extinction” by Ross Showalter\n  * “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods (Or, Asan and the Lion)” by Ewen Ma\n  * “Overgrowth” by Cate W. Tam\n  * “The Animal Years” by Jaye Case\n  * “The Sum of Her Parts” by J.Y. Zhang\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Future Tense Fiction (March 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Pocket Box™\" by Gunnar Anderson\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * \"What Happens When a Groundbreaking Invention Falls Victim to Human Impulse?\" by Torie Bosch\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## GigaNotoSaurus__(March 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"About Face\" by Teresa Milbrodt\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Kaleidotrope (Spring 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “Once Upon an Invasion” by Amanda Cecelia Lang\n  * “Outbreak\" by Michelle H. Porter\n  * “Out to Sea” by Dom D. Borg\n  * “Ponyhenge” by Faith Allington\n  * “The Tipping Point” by Sean French-Byrne\n  * “Diamonds” by Grant Stone\n  * “Astral Source” by K.L. Neidecker\n  * “A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial” by Matt Hornsby\n  * “Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far” by Eliezra Schaffzin\n  * “A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped\" by Timothy Mudie\n  * “Wolftongue” by Em Harriett\n  * “Rara Avis” by Meg Elison\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * “Awakening” by Mari Ness\n  * “Even in Our Sleep” by Mark Rich\n  * “Bridge and Tunnel” by Anne Perez\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## khōréō (March 20265, Issue 6.1)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"This Kingdom, Your Ficus; Its Belly, Your Fig\" by Lowry Poletti\n  * \"In My Time of Dreaming\" by Megan Chee\n  * \"The Tale of Afonso\" by Dea Anugrah, translated by Annie Tucker\n  * \"Letters from Light’s End\" by Phoenix Alexander\n  * \"Banquet for All!\" by jesutomisin ipinmoye\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Letters from the Editors\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Interzone (Issue 304)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Stories by:\n\n  * Rachael Cupp\n  * R.T. Ester\n  * Dominic Green\n  * Simon Guerrier\n  * Val Nolan\n  * Jennifer Jeanne McArdle\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction by:\n\n  * Alexander Glass\n  * Una McCormack\n  * Val Nolan\n  * Aliya Whiteley\n  * Kelly Jennings\n  * Paul Kincaid\n  * Paul McAuley\n  * Val Nolan\n  * Nick Lowe\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Lightspeed Magazine (March 2026, Issue 190)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial’s Guide to #GirlDinner\" by Jilly Dreadful (3/5)\n  * \"The Devourers of War; or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods\" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (3/5)\n  * \"Espie Droger Dreams of War\" by Matthew Kressel (3/12)\n  * \"The Tide Folk\" by Jennifer Hudak (3/12)\n  * \"An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War\" by JT Petty (3/19)\n  * \"Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea\" by Vanessa Fogg (3/19)\n  * \"Terms of Enlightenment\" by Patrick Hurley (3/26)\n  * \"When We Loved Giants\" by Sara S. Messenger (3/26)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: March 2026 by John Joseph Adams (3/5)\n  * Author Spotlight: Matthew Kressel by Erik Grove (3/12)\n  * Book Review: Midnight Somewhere by Johnny Compton by Arley Sorg (3/12)\n  * Author Spotlight: Vanessa Fogg by A Humphrey Lanham (3/19)\n  * Book Review: The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers by Kenneth Hunter Gordon by Melissa A Watkins (3/19)\n  * Author Spotlight: Patrick Hurley by Phoebe Barton (3/26)\n  * Author Spotlight: Sara S. Messenger by Delia Cullity (3/26)\n  * Book Review: The Franchise by Thomas Elrod by Chris Kluwe (3/26)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Luna Station Quarterly (March 2026, Issue 065)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The End of the World, Simon et al.\" by T. L. Xue\n  * \"Ghost Story\" by Feby Idrus\n  * \"Squilla of the Flower Moon\" by M. McNamara\n  * \"Private Cabin, Ocean View\" by Jane Campbell\n  * \"Laisha\" by Amantia Menalla\n  * \"Stevie\" by Bendix Ross\n  * \"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone\" by Sylvie Althoff\n  * \"The Disparity of Confidence\" by Emmie Christie\n  * \"Heart's Desire\" by K.M. Reed\n  * \"Eva\" by Ashley Burnett\n  * \"Are We There Yet?\" by Allison Mulder\n  * \"The Sleeper in the Crypt\" by Tiffany Tang\n  * \"Brighton\" by J. Nathan\n  * \"The Bride and Her Thief\" by Safiya Cherfi\n  * \"Warp and Weft Rising\" by Pauline Barmby\n  * \"Dance It Trippingly\" by Sadie Leewood\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Nature Futures (March 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Sock. Something. Um.\" Daniel Roop\n  * \"Evolution\" by Zhouhe Zhang and Haochen Hua\n  * \"First bot, singular\" by Preston Grassmann\n  * \"All the world is staged\" by Mark S. Bailen\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Nightmare Magazine (March 2026, Issue 162)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights?\" by Gordon B. White (3/4)\n  * \"The Doll Problem\" by Angela Liu (3/11)\n  * \"Her Dark Places\" by __ Adam-Troy Castro (3/18)\n  * \"Zooming Past Shotgun Houses\" by Eva Roslin (3/25)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: March 2026__ by Wendy N. Wagner (3/4)\n  * Author Spotlight: Gordon B. White by Clay Vermulm (3/4)\n  * The H Word: Laughing to Swallow My Screams by Ryan Habermeyer (3/11)\n  * Author Spotlight: Adam-Troy Castro by Alex Puncekar (3/18)\n  * Media Reviews: March 2026__ by Adam-Troy Castro (3/25)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Otherside ()\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"This Is Not Your Extinction Event\" by Elena Sichrovsky\n  * \"The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet\" by Simo Srinivas\n  * \"Vitrification\" by Ishmael Grey\n  * \"The Claywife\" by tanadrin\n  * \"Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur\" by Abigail Eliza\n  * \"Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain\" by Sarah Pauling\n  * \"Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive\" by Nadia Radovich\n  * \"Situationship\" by Seoung Kim\n  * \"The Homeowner’s Bride\" by Ayida Shonibar\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"blessing for molly grue.\" by Elisheva Fox\n  * \"Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen\" by Ann Leblanc\n  * \"Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be\" by Rick HOllon\n  * \"Eat It Out\" by Cypher\n  * \"Electrolysis\" by Nico Santana\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\nHe Is Survived by His Wife by Jackie Hedeman\n\n* * *\n\n## Reactor__(March 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Blade Through the Heart\" by Carrie Vaughn\n  * \"Cutting Corners\" by Yoon Ha Lee\n  * \"Tatterdemalion\" by Michael Cisco\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Small Wonders Magazine (March 2026, Issue 33)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Seven Virtues of Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon\" by S. C. Mills\n  * \"Nothing Bright but the Shine of Your Coat\" by Cressida Roe\n  * \"Foxes on Her Wrist, Fire on Her Ankle\" by Akis Linardos\n  * \"Just Before the Mission Gulch Fire\" by Taylor Jones\n  * \"The Dragon and It\" by Kate Francia\n  * Gemini creatures\" by Rachael Brooks\n  * \"I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope\" by Chase Anderson\n  * \"They Live So Little and They Die So Fast\" by Mira Singer\n  * \"tell us about doubt\" by Rath Mercury\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Strange Horizons (March 2026)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Bitter as the Sea\" by M.E. Bronstein\n  * \"This Obituary Has Been Retracted\" by P.C. Verrone\n  * \"Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems\" by Jenna Hanchey\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"Afterstory\" by Janet McAdams\n  * \"You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator)\" by Dacey Eliot\n  * \"An Inheritance of Air; or, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend My Presentation on Genealogy\" by Sophia Zhao\n  * \"Narcissus Meets the Ghost of AI in a Dark Alley Behind a Fusion Restaurant\" by Lesley Hart Gunn\n  * \"[minutes between city and forest #4]\" by Ceridwen Hall\n  * \"Pennsylvania Cryptid\" by Amelia England\n  * The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator\" by Katlina Sommerberg\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity by Eugen Bacon\n  * That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships In Cosy SFF by S.L. Dove Cooper\n\n\n\n### Reviews\n\n  * Monday: The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina by Nick Hubble\n  * Wednesday: Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum by Jenny Hamilton\n  * Friday: The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu by Tina S. Zhu\n  * Monday: ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction edited by Marissa van Uden by Octavia Cade\n  * Wednesday: This Brutal Moon by Bethany Jacobs by Roseanna Pendlebury\n  * Friday: The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty by Anushree Nande\n  * Monday: Crisis at Proxima by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson by Andy Sawyer\n  * Wednesday: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix by Amritesh Mukherjee\n  * Friday: When Among Crows and To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth by Electra Pritchett\n  * Monday: Beings by Ilana Masad by David Lewis\n  * Wednesday: The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui by Alex Kingsley\n  * Friday: Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks by Eric Primm\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Sunday Morning Transport (March 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"When Your Ex-Husband Lies Dying and Only You Can Get Him the Magic Elixir from the Bodega\" by Ben Francisco\n  * \"La Sirena’s Blessing of Belonging\" by V.M. Ayala\n  * \"Self-Portrait, with Bones\" by Alex Irving\n  * \"In Your Dreams\" by Leah Cypess\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Three-Lobed Burning Eye (March 2026, Issue 147)\n\nSupport them here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Final Safest Place\" by Wendy N. Wagner\n  * \"Our Darkness to Take\" by Hailey Piper\n  * \"Kindredhood in Medieval Tongues\" by Eugen Bacon\n  * \"The Show is in the Basement\" by Keith Rosson\n  * \"Someday, The Rules Were (Mostly) Clear\" by Maxwell I. Gold\n  * \"book club for bots\" by Clay McLeod Chapman\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Uncanny Magazine (March / April 2026, Issue 69)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom” by Angela Liu (3/3)\n  * “Chimera” by Anjali Sachdeva (3/3)\n  * “When Things Went Bad” by Stephen Graham Jones (3/3)\n  * “The Mighty Impervious Woman Considers Retirement” by Izzy Wasserstein (3/3)\n  * “machining of little moons” by Eva Papasoulioti (3/3)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * “The Uncanny Valley” by Michael Damian Thomas\n  * “Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times)” by Samantha Mills (3/3)\n  * “Endings and Other Lies” by Jim C. Hines (3/3)\n  * Interview: Anjali Sachdeva by Caroline M. Yoachim (3/3)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Weird Horror Magazine (Spring 2026, Issue 12)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * Chloe N. Clark\n  * Roy Graham\n  * Rick Kennett\n  * Annika Barranti Klein\n  * \"Moksha\" by Rajiv Moté\n  * \"You Scream Ice Cream\" by Russell Nichols\n  * \"A View from the Window\" by Rory Say\n  * R.L. Summerling\n  * \"Horncrowns\" by D. Matthew Urban\n  * \"Last Night\" by Aliya Whiteley\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  *  __ European Weird Vs. American Weird by Simon Strantzas\n  * Suspicious Manors: Old Dark Houses and the New Gilded Age by Orrin Grey\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nRemember to check back at the end of the month for updates as new stories come online, and to let me know in the comments what caught your eye!",
  "title": "Table of Contents, March 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-01T15:29:23.448Z"
}