Table of Contents, June 2026

New month, new stories: here's a new crop of short fiction has begun dropping, and it's time for a new roundup for the month! You can check out last month's (newly updated!) installment here, and the prior installments here.

---

Adventitious (Issue 3)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Non Plus Ultra" by M.A. Carrick
• "All of My Tomorrows" by L.D. Colter
• "alleles" by Amanda Helms
• "Hollows After Bones" by Elis Montgomery
• "Sunday on the grass" by John Saul
• "Who Tells Your Story?" by Clint Hannah-Lopez
• "By The Wings Of An Albatross" by Abigail Kemske
• "Lindy Bot" by Anna Kahn
• "The God of the Leftmost Door" by M.R. Robinson
• "The Laws of Thermodynamics as Applied to my Dead Mom" by Christopher Blake
• "Kings_Gambit.exe" y Yelena Crane

Nonfiction

• For Sale: If You Can Catch It — A Rare Ambulatory Freehold Opportunity!

---

Amazing Stories (June 2026)

Fiction

• "Diaschisis" by T.R. Brooks
• "Headhunter" by Dennis Kohler
• "Time Saves" by Femi Salami
• "They Are Vast" by Duff McCourt
• "The Hidden Parliament" by Ian Brazee-Cannon

---

Apex Magazine (Issue 153, June/July 2026)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "The Bathhouse for Long Life" by Claire Jia-Wen
• "Glass" by Beth Dawkins
• "Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" by Chris Campbell — 6/2
• "My Suicides" by Debbie Urbanski — 6/9
• "Seventeen Beats, the Chirping Stopped" by Christian Ramirez Ramos — 6/23
• "In Your Diminishing Tongue" by Indigo Rue
• "The Vigil of the Tenth Air" by Surya Ramkumar — 6/30 (This story was taken down because it was suspected of being written with AI assistance.)

Nonfiction

• Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
• Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors by Marie Vibbert
• Weird Girl Fiction by Ivy Grimes — 6/4
• Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen by Marissa van Uden
• Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski by Marissa van Uden — 6/16

---

Aurealis (Issue 190)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Faultless" by Brendan Cottam
• "Unnatural Selection" by Donna Lee Austin
• "To Feel the Sunby Dominic Deveny-Borg

Nonfiction

• From the Cloud
• ‘The Lonely’: The Twilight Zone Episode That Parallels the 2020s by Joseph Sullivan
• The Paradox of Nothing: The Anthromorphism of Aliens by Todd Sullivan
• Ignorance Is Creative Bliss by Dr PH Court

---

Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Issue #459 and #460)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "The Ecstasy of the White Sea" by KJ Kabza
• "Waiting for The Yellow Ships" by Edward Hodge
• "A Stranger Goes Ashore" by Adam R. Shannon
• "A Candle for Her Tireless Dead" by Louis Inglis Hall
• "Fletcher’s Flights" by Jonathan Olfert
• "Let the Gods Drown With Us" by R.K. Duncan

---

Clarkesworld Magazine__(June 2026, Issue 237)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Up the Line to Death" by Carrie Vaughn
• "The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy" by Claire Jia-Wen
• "The Floating Republic" by Rebecca Campbell
• "Three Cases from the Cosmic Psychiatric Clinic" by Pan Haitian, translated by Blake Stone-Banks
• "A Life Measured in Seconds" by Anne Wilkins
• "Burning Day" by Samantha Murray
• "Ice, Rock, Empathy" by Damián Neri

Nonfiction

• Finite Resources & Congestion Charges: What Will EV Technology of the Future Actually Look Like? by Kyle Tam
• When The Future Catches Up To You: A Conversation with Naomi Kritzer by Arley Sorg
• To Know, and to Have a Choice: A Conversation with Isabel J. Kim by Arley Sorg
• Editor's Desk: One for the Team by Neil Clarke

---

Cosmic Horror Monthly (June 2025)

Subscribe here.

• "There’s Something on Her Face" by Mary Magagna
• "How to Deal with Fallen Gods" by Matthew MacDonald
• "Only the Troll Wife Remains" by Leonora Lewis
• "Jamieson" by Margaret St. Clair

---

The Dark (June 2026, Issue 133)

Subscribe here.

• “The Sunflowers” by JL George
• “The Beach House with Its Back to the Sea” by Íde Hennessy (reprint)
• “Magpie Rhymes” by R. K. Duncan
• “The Black Fox” by David Demchuk

---

Dark Horses Magazine (Issue 53, June 2026)

Fiction

• "Beyond The Beaten Path" by Jenny Morelli
• "Beyond The Breakers" by Chris Mcginley
• "Gore" by Andrew Albritton
• "Thunder Road" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
• "How Navigation Works" by Griffith Pound
• "That Time Was The Place Where I Exist" by Robert Pettus
• "The Gathering Of The Dragons" by Matias Travieso-diaz
• "The Silver Front" by George P. Cross
• "The World Beyond The Water" by Daniel Burnbridge
• "Ghost Inquisitor" by Bill Walthall
• "Child Of Centaurus" by R.A. Daunton
• "Drains" by David Castlewitz
• "Five Soft Fingers" by Sophia Krich-brinton
• "Lisl" by Lisa Marie Miller
• "Neural Crucible" by Ernesto Sanchez
• "The Gromskin" by Mark Nuzzi
• "The Missouri Man" by Lawrence Dagstine
• "A Taste Of Truth" by Bill Diamond
• Plunge" by Anuel Rodriguez

---

Diabolical Plots (June 2026)

Support here.

Fiction

• “The Sharp Cry of the Winterlarks” by Arden Baker
• “The Monster’s Wife” by Stewart Moore

---

Flash Fiction Online ()

Donate here.

Fiction

• "Byzantium" by Robert Dawson
• "Last Rites" by Cailín Frankland
• "What Is Conjured Shall Vanish" by Akis Linardos
• "A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market" by M.R. Robinson
• "Herself Anodyne" by Emma Burnett
• "Your Guide to the Ever-Shrinking Solitude on Planet Earth" by Jo Miles
• "In the Book Grove" by Carol Scheina
• "The Girls of Channel 9" by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
• "Restoration" by Rich Larson
• "Starve You" by Bethany Bruno
• "I Am My Art" by Ayida Shonibar
• "A Bag of Soldiers" by Eric Fomley
• "To Face Ourselves" by Claudia Wair
• "Null Empathy" by Myna Chang
• "In the Name of Those Optimist Iranian Fools" by Pegah Ouji
• "133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance" by Beth Cato

Nonfiction

• Editorial: The Heart of Resistance by Jeanna Cammarano

---

Flash Point SF (June 2026, Issue 3)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "How to Get a Head" by Marie Brennan
• "Don’t Touch the Clones" by Andrew Kozma
• "What To Expect When You’re Expectorating Bees on Hive Colony Delta" by Addison Smith
• "Please Join Me on the Fourth Shift"by David M. Barry
• "Pythia" by Juniper White

---

Forever Magazine (June 2026, Issue 137)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• “Tool Use By the Humans of Danzhai County” by Derek Künsken
• “Hello, Hello” by Seanan McGuire
• “Rager in Space” by Charlie Jane Anders

---

Future Tense Fiction (June 2026)

Fiction

• "Mirror, Mirror" by Sofia Samatar

Nonfiction

• In the Blink of an Eye by Will Hellwarth

---

GigaNotoSaurus__(June 2026)

Fiction

• "How the Waters Returned to Apicuya" by Nicholas Schorn

---

Kaleidotrope (Spring 2026)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Once Upon an Invasion" by Amanda Cecelia Lang
• "Outbreak" by Michele H. Porter
• "Out to Sea" by Dominic D. Borg
• "Ponyhenge" by Faith Allington
• "The Tipping Point" by Sean French-Byrne
• "Diamonds" by Grant Stone
• "Astral Source" by K.L. Neidecker
• "A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial" by Matt Hornsby
• "Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far" by Eliezra Schaffzin
• "A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped" by Timothy Mudie
• Wolftongue"by Em Harriett
• "Rara Avis" by Meg Elison

Poetry

• "Awakening" by Mari Ness
• "Even in Our Sleep" by Mark Rich
• "Bridge and Tunnel" by Anne Perez

---

khōréō (June 2026)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "The Post-History of a Planet" by Samantha H. Chung
• "So You Want to Make a Killing" by Boon Carmen
• "Tender and Sweet" by Lisobel Tang
• "Godweapon" by Kel Coleman
• "Museum of the Other Moon" by A. Artemis Chen
• "A River Begins or Ends" by Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira

Nonfiction

• Letter from the Editors by Zhui Ning Chang

---

Lightspeed Magazine (Issue 193, June 2026)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Ghost in the Tank" by M.R. Robinson (6/4)
• "The Best of Intentions" by Mari Ness (6/4)
• "Memeostasis" by Benjamin Rosenbaum (6/11)
• "An Oral History of the Schooner Key Invasion" by Alex Irvine (6/11)
• "The Overview Initiative" by David Marino (6/18)
• "I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA?" by Marie Brennan (6/18)
• "The Sharing of Some Familiar Song" by Adam-Troy Castro (6/25)
• "Ash-Shūrā; or, A Book, a Bowl, a Bag of Coins" by Beesan Odeh (6/25)

Nonfiction

• Editorial: June 2026 by John Joseph Adams (6/4)
• Author Spotlight: M.R. Robinson by Erik Grove (6/4)
• Author Spotlight: Alex Irvine by A Humphrey Lanham (6/11)\
• Book Review: My Dear You by Rachel Khong by Arley Sorg (6/11)
• Author Spotlight: David Marino by Phoebe Barton (6/18)
• Book Review: Goldenborn by Ama Ofosua Lieb by Melissa A Watkins (6/18)
• Author Spotlight: Beesan Odeh by Delia Cullity (6/25)
• Book Review: Auntie Heroes by Rita Beeman, ed. by Chris Kluwe (6/25)

---

Luna Station Quarterly (June 2026, Issue 066)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Backwash" by Rowan Tate
• "Two Nights at the Doll House" by Maggie Slater
• "Cat Steps" by River West
• "As Per My Last Email" by Eleanor Rasor
• "Track 19" by Lesley Hart Gunn
• "Hazard Pay; Competence; Wyrms" by Catherine George
• "Zig and Zag's Guide to Crash Landing" by Harklin Ashe
• "The Dragons" by Ashleigh Rajala
• "Time Surfing" by Isabel McKeough
• "The Queen of Tish" by Lindsey Duncan
• "Vestigial Speech" by Xavier George
• "Tongue" by Denman Netherland
• "The Last Birthday Cake" by KT Reed
• "Spaghettification" by Lauren Ferebee
• "The Grass is Pinker on the Other Side" by Kelley Tai

Nonfiction

• The June issue has docked for the summer by Jennifer Lyn Parsons

---

MIT Technology Review (June 2026)

Fiction

• "You Do Your Own Time" by Elizabeth Bear

---

Nature Futures (June 2026)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Book of Cron Job" by Jordan W. Suchow
• "Doubting Thomas" by Paul Renault
• "Wah-ult in the vault" by Mark Arnold
• "Garbage collection" by Aidan Lawson

---

Neon Dystopia (June 2026)

Support here.

Fiction

• "The Purpose of a Name" by Ashley Y. Gao
• "Secondhand Parts" by David Winchester

---

Nightmare Magazine (June 2026, Issue 165)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "What Grows Back" by Aishatu Ado (6/3)
• "NoMouth" by Marianne Kirby (6/10)
• "Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults" by Izzy Wasserstein (6/17)
• "Good Morning, Wolf—" by Stephanie M. Wytovich (6/24)

Nonfiction

• Editorial: June 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (6/3)
• Author Spotlight: Aishatu Ado by Clay Vermulm (6/3)
• The H Word: Horror Is the Metal of Books by Chris Panatier (6/10)
• Author Spotlight: Izzy Wasserstein by Kevin Figueroa Quiñones (6/17)
• Media Reviews: June 2026 by Adam-Troy Castro (6/24)

Otherside (June 2026, Issue 2)

Support here.

Fiction

• "We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers" by P.V. Vamsidhar
• "Before She Knew About Magic" by Joshua Geller Schwartz
• "Two People" by Ben Francisco
• "This Is C(lone)-Pop" by Lia Lao
• "Spider Kiss" by Bree Wernicke
• "Chī Kǔ" by J.Y. Zhang
• "First to Rot" by J.N. Howell
• "Crowns" by cee-cee manrique
• "Remade, Reshaped, Remembered" by Sydney Paige Guerrero

Poetry

• "Masquerade." by Chidera Offor
• "Ganymede" by Gospel Chinedu
• "obsolesce" by Macey Levington
• "girl, flogged by a false-named whip." by Amie SHen
• "Open Your Eyes Again" by Toby MacNutt
• "As seen through the hole of the hag stone:" by Sienna Tristen

Nonfiction

• Letter from the Editors: Issue 2 by Ash Vale, M.R. Robinson, V.M. Ayala
• A Noose of Purple Silk by Sidney Grady

---

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (June 2026, vol x issue 1)

Fiction

• "On the Space Station" by John Grey
• "A God in Binary" by A.D. Ross
• "Xenowicker" by Richard Magahiz
• "A Post-Times Dispatch" by Doug Donovan
• "Over Time" by Amelia Gorman
• "Elegy" by Andrew Fraknoi
• "A Sweet Summer Melody Courtesy of Planet XR-23A" by Bailey Thomas
• "Time" by O. Vrubel
• "The Chaatbot" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires
• "Yes Chef" by Corinne Engber
• "The World Is Raining" by Mira Singer
• "Questions for an Unnamed Member of the Undead" by Marcus Whalbring
• "The Veiled Prophet" by Dave Hangman
• "For the Piercer and the Craftsman" by John Leahy
• "Erd Hated" by Adele Gardner
• "The Line" by Michael VanCalbergh
• "Progress" by Jamal Hodge

---

Reactor__(June 2026)

Fiction

• "Trail Cam" by Benjamin Percy
• "No Agency Without Identity! Stay In Character Always!" by James Patrick Kelly
• "Turn Right For Terror" by James Cooper

---

Small Wonders Magazine (June 2026)

Donate here.

Fiction

• "Laundry Lives" by Cara Masten DiGirolamo
• "we are all made of star-stuff" by Ash Vale
• a junk email from god" by Diya Tyagi
• Photographs I Have Been Trapped In" by Beth Goder
• "Your Cause and Your Effect" by Ian Li
• "What Are We If I Stay" by K. S. Walker
• "Familiar" by Courtney Floyd
• "Waiting to Become True" by Samantha Murray
• "Magnus, Who Tore Down the Night" by Cameron Blue

---

Strange Horizons (June 2026)

Donate here.

Fiction

• "Throne of Men, Wilds of Sky" by Morgan Wodring
• "For a Handful of Salted Teeth" by Marisca Pichette
• "Dear Trilobites" by RJ Taylor

Poetry

• "look" by Eric Otto
• "The Sound of Trying to Remember" by Vinita Agrawal, art by Romie Stott
• "The Dream of Jeannie" by Marie Brennan
• "view advertisement source code" by Nico Martinez Nocito
• "The Keyhole" by Natalia Theodoridou
• "How to Court a Siberian Tiger" by Izzy Toy Rettke
• "Log 6324, earthdate unknown" by Rose Mary Boehm
• "ἀγκυλοθάλασσος" by Sonya Taaffe
• "What the Machine Remembered" by Jack Fisher
• "The Glass Beach" by Nestor Walters
• "Permafrost" by M. Frost

Nonfiction

• The Many Metaphors of Lycanthropy by Gwen Katz
• Against Worldbuilding by Jenna Hanchey

Reviews

• Monday: The Climate Fiction Prize Shortlist 2026 by Octavia Cade
• Wednesday: The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet by Yi-Ling Liu by Nataliia Sova
• Friday: Hermits Die on Thursday: Stories of Appalachia and the Dark Ages by Gregory Ariail by Tim Lockette
• Sunday: Red Sword by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur by Akankshya Abismruta
• Sunday: Fantasy: A Short History by Adam Roberts by Stephanie Burt
• Saturday: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford by Paul March-Russell
• Monday: Kill The Poet, Save The World! by Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu by Akumbu Uche
• Wednesday: Dead Boys in Space by Sara Youngblood Gregory by William Shaw
• Friday: House of Margins by Tloto Tsamaase by Sinclair Adams
• Monday: Vigil by George Saunders by David Soyka
• Wednesday: The Young Die Old by Nguyễn Bình Phương, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn by Rachel Cordasco
• Friday: River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse by Alex Kingsley

---

The Sunday Morning Transport (June 2026)

Fiction

• "Go No-Go No" by Alex London
• "Jill & Lily" by J.R. Dawson
• "Word of Mouth" by Andrea Phillips
• "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler

---

Uncanny Magazine (May/June 2026, Issue 70)

Subscribe here.

Fiction

• "Immigrant Girl from the End of the World" by Hannah Yang (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "#HumansOfMars" by Lavie Tidhar (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "Magical Girl Eater" by Angela Liu (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "Lincoln and the Harvester C-100" by R.S.A. Garcia (available Jun 02, 2026)

Poetry

• "electric in the silver stormchain that burst behind my wings" by S.R. Ekstein (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "Quorum" by Ceridwen Hall (available Jun 02, 2026)

Nonfiction

• Nature, Monsters, and the Responsibility of Larger Things by Nilah Magruder (available Jun 02, 2026)
• An Absolute Crisis: DC’s Big 7 Have Been Stripped Down and Relaunched for the Present Age by Alex Jennings (available Jun 02, 2026)
• Interview: Angela Liu by Caroline M. Yoachim (available Jun 02, 2026)

---

That's it for now: check back later in the month when I update this list. As always, let me know what you read in the comments!